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r 4 minutes and has a bunch of information up front about the the actual event posted by brianr at 5 22 2007 2 comments labels sedimentation video neptune sea laboratory neptune north east pacific time series undersea networked experiments which i posted about last month will be a state of the art observational system in the ocean and on the sea floor off the coast of oregon washington and british columbia it will deliver data real time and be interactive this is very exciting the earth s oceans are the last frontier on this planet regarding scientific exploration and observation we still have yet to actually document many of the processes that occur in the submarine realm the neptune website check it out it s pretty cool lists a few of these massive storms erupting submarine volcanoes giant earthquakes marine mammal feeding and hunting patterns phytoplankton blooms in the upper ocean releases of microbes that live in the rocks beneath the seafloor and thrive on a diet of volcanic gas and of course what everybody wants to see caught in the act turbidity currents oh wait i guess that s just me sediment transport is indeed one of their goals i will be very interested to see the data come in and published in the coming years posted by brianr at 5 22 2007 0 comments labels marine science sunday may 20 2007 avulsion dynamics and experimental sedimentation back in february during just science week i posted a bit about some of the work being done regarding experimental sedimentation see here i highlighted the work being done by sedimentologists and dynamicists at the university of minnesota s st anthony falls lab in particular the video below is from some of their work i encourage you to explore their data archive if you want to find more this video shows a time lapse of sedimentation occuring on an experimental delta this particular experiment nicely shows the dynamics of shifting pathways of sediment transport and or deposition erosion otherwise known as avulsion the deposit here would be more akin to a braided fan delta as it is not developing long lived channels with cohesive levees the annotation shows where and when avulsion and expansion of channelized flow occurs also keep your eye on where deposition is occuring this interplay of deposition and avulsion continues in a very dynamic and seemingly unpredictable fashion qualitatively this isn t really anything we haven t known for a long time the point with these experiments is that we can measure every last little detail these researchers are really just scratching the surface eventually they would like to try develop some fundamental quantitative relationships that might lead to predictive guidelines but it will take many years of experimentation to amass the data needed to converge on these relationships the photo below is shown on safl s web page currently it shows that they are now experimenting with systems that do produce cohesive levees which is a key ingredient for understanding the dynamics of most river deltas posted by brianr at 5 20 2007 0 comments labels complexity sedimentation video friday may 18 2007 friday field foto 17 clast imbrication today s field photograph comes from the valley of fire region in nevada a few years ago we organized a student led field trip to this area to check out some of the fantastic geology on display this particular photo shows nice clast imbrication in a cretaceous alluvial fan sequence note the three clasts just below the pencil stacked on each other showing the paleocurrent direction to the right if you go hike around on a modern alluvial fan or stream with cobbles in it you will likely find small piles of imbricated clasts just like this posted by brianr at 5 18 2007 0 comments labels friday field foto sedimentary structures sedimentation 1980 mount st helens eruption anniversary today marks the 27th anniversary of the famous mount st helens eruption at 8 32 am on may 18th 1980 the volcano erupted as half the mountain slid off the side this googlevideo would not properly embed on the blog and i can t be bothered to figure it out but if you click on the image below it will take you to the page where you can view that famous clip of the eruption the geoblogosphere has had some discussions in recent months regarding the accuracy and quality of wikipedia when it comes to geologic information in this case i think the wikipedia entry on mount st helens does a decent job at laying out the important information and as wikipedia entries go it has a very nice list of notes and external sites at the bottom of the page to get more information below is a map of the ash fallout from the 1980 eruption i wonder why there is that isolated patch in oklahoma posted by brianr at 5 18 2007 0 comments labels earth hazards geology video thursday may 17 2007 internet radio in danger if you live in the u s and enjoy public radio on the web please visit this site to learn more about what could happen to public radio and what you can do to try and help it if you are inclined to let your representative know they made it extraordinarily easy to accomplish that also check out savenetradio org for additional perspective like a lot of you i listen to streaming internet radio because let s face it corporate radio is lame i found out about all of this on my favorite internet station somafm based here in san francisco they have 11 stations my favorite is groove salad nice ambient music that is especially good as background music while working or trying to work posted by brianr at 5 17 2007 2 comments labels music political humpback whales in sacramento two humpback whales a mother and her calf have found themselves about 90 miles from the pacific ocean they swam through the golden gate and then upstream through the sacramento san joaquin delta where they are now apparently hanging out image from http www physorg com news67103763 html the mother was injured by a boat propeller and has a 2 foot long 6 inch wide gash near her dorsal fin marine biologists are hoping to lure the wayward animals toward the pacific with recordings of whale songs where they can find food and the salty water can heal the mother s injury posted by brianr at 5 17 2007 1 comments labels sf bay area wednesday may 16 2007 where on google earth 11 i ve been slackin on putting together a good post on this blog lately in the meantime enjoy this latest installment of where on google earth this one might be difficult i m zoomed in a little more than usual good luck posted by brianr at 5 16 2007 4 comments labels where on google earth friday may 11 2007 catalina island wildfire if you re following the news even a little bit you ve probably heard about the wildfire burning up catalina island which is offshore of southern california click image above or quote below to read story and see more photos although many people live on the island much of it is a wildlife refuge despite being well offshore catalina has been left parched by the lack of rainfall that has made the rest of southern california particularly susceptible to wildfires like the one in los angeles griffith park this week here is a batymetric map showing the island see more here posted by brianr at 5 11 2007 1 comments labels earth hazards photos images friday field foto 16 sand injectites okay back to patagonia for this week s photo this isn t in my specific field area but very close to it and in the same formation what s really cool about this area is the presence of clastic dikes or what have now been termed injectites as in the injection of sand in this photo you ll notice the light colored streaks cutting up and to the right across the flat lying strata these features are sandstone injectites have been recognized for over a hundred years but have been more appreciated in recent years oil companies searching for petroleum in the north sea have seen huge networks and complexes of injectites with seismic reflection data and i mean huge some of the individual sandstone dikes can be kilometers long cutting sub vertically through the strata in the case above the orientation of this swarm of injectites are parallel to a growth fault i e syn depositional lower in the section there is still much debate about the mechanics of these things what kinds of overpressures are required how fast is the unlithified sand injected and so on posted by brianr at 5 11 2007 0 comments labels friday field foto patagonia turbidites thursday may 10 2007 video of flash flood here is a great video of a flash flood in thompson canyon which is in utah and very near these outcrops this particular video was shot by doug jerolmack last summer i found this on paul heller s website which is a great resource for videos of clastic sedimentation note the debris rich front of the flow full of twigs sticks and other stuff pause at 00 19 after some time the debris poor part of the flow comes through pause at 00 34 and note the levee of woody debris that has formed on the edge of the flow this is a defining characteristic of these types of flows and help keep it going by providing additional confinement at 00 43 00 47 end of footage note the standing wave that has formed posted by brianr at 5 10 2007 3 comments labels earth hazards sedimentation video wednesday may 09 2007 books google style i think google is going to show up at my apartment one day and digitize me they are unstoppable a friend and colleague of mine was raving about googlebooks to me the other day so i decided to give it a look warning be prepared to spend some time one of the nice things about this book search engine is that you can tell it to return full view books most of the newer books out there and probably most mainstream fiction is only available as a preview which is useful in its own right but if you search the full view books you can find some really neat things for example i put in patagonia geology as the search term and darwin s chronicles from the beagle was right there so this is great perhaps you are one who makes yourself stay in your office and work instead of getting sidetracked by random books in the library well now you can get even more sidetracked sitting at your desk posted by brianr at 5 09 2007 0 comments labels books the book of life check out this article about a project to build an online archive of the earth s species the encyclopedia of life will provide valuable biodiversity and conservation information to anyone anywhere at any time said dr james edwards executive director of the 100m 50m project it is said to take 10 years or more to complete ideally this will be a fantastic resource for both researchers and the general public the vast database will initially concentrate on animals plants and fungi with microbes to follow fossil species may eventually be added that s really cool especially with regards to this database as an educational tool it will be nice for the general public to see both present and past species side by side posted by brianr at 5 09 2007 2 comments labels misc science monday may 07 2007 makes me want to travel you may have seen this already it s been around for a while this guy matt has a blog called where the hell is matt which chronicles his world travels and bad dancing for some reason i really love this video i d love to go to all these places enjoy posted by brianr at 5 07 2007 0 comments labels humor randomness travel sunday may 06 2007 evolution and conservatism i don t spend too much time with topics like this on this blog but i found this particular article interesting there are several bloggers over at scienceblogs that do put a lot of energy into these topics so you should check it out if you want more yesterday may 5th the new york times science page published an article titled a split emerges as conservatives discuss darwin i am certainly no expert in how darwinism has been or is being invoked in the past or present by political social figures this article cites several books that might be a good sampling of how these ideas have evolved pun intended the other night the ten republican presidential candidates were asked if they believe in evolution and three of them said they did not for some conservatives accepting darwin undercuts religious faith and produces an amoral materialistic worldview that easily embraces abortion embryonic stem cell research and other practices they abhor as an alternative to darwin many advocate intelligent design which holds that life is so intricately organized that only an intelligent power could have created it maybe i am simple minded but what does the science of evolution have to do with abortion this is a rhetorical question and i know the talking points but this gets right to what i dislike about rigorous political ideologies that one must agree with or adopt the entire spectrum of perspectives and beliefs to be on the team as for intelligent design i m not going to discuss that here as it has been in my mind thoroughly proven to not even be close to scientific practice period yet it is that very embrace of intelligent design not to mention creationism which takes a literal view of the bible s book of genesis that has led conservative opponents to speak out for fear their ideology will be branded as out of touch and anti science well i think it s too late on that front that ideology has already been branded as anti science some of these thinkers have gone one step further arguing that darwin s scientific theories about the evolution of species can be applied to today s patterns of human behavior and that natural selection can provide support for many bedrock conservative ideas like traditional social roles for men and women free market capitalism and governmental checks and balances i do like to bring up the concept of the free market with those who feel they have to be both fiscal and social conservatives the purist view of a free market believes the system self organizes into an efficient and collectively beneficial construct without the aid of a centralized authority intelligent designer this is accomplished through the balance of supply and demand prices of goods services and other market forces and sometimes nudged this way and that e g tweaking of interest rates there is no need for an intelligent designer in fact if you were to tell one of these very proud so called self made individuals that they are the product of the decisions of a centralized authority intelligent designer rather than the sum of their individual actions decisions and development evolution they would be pretty upset with you as for how natural selection explains traditional gender roles i m simply not versed in such ideas and really don t understand that what do they mean by traditional traditional as in the american family as portrayed on 1950s television with the man going to work in a suit and the woman staying home wearing a dress and cooking cleaning for him what exactly does that have to 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