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e is the guadalupe mountains which is the highest point in texas the geology of this area is very unique in that these mountains expose a shelf shelf margin and basin transition across 100 km nearly continuously one of these days i ll post some more info about that this photo taken by and courtesy of my friend marieke posted by brianr at 4 20 2007 3 comments labels friday field foto photos images turbidites thursday april 19 2007 balloons in an office the randomness tag couldn t be more appropriate for this post our research group is wondering how to celebrate our advisor s birthday this year which usually ends up being a tribute and or roast in the past students have also done things to his office so there s a surprise waiting for him in the morning anyways while researching this i came across this video on youtube that absolutely made my day posted by brianr at 4 19 2007 2 comments labels humor randomness video wednesday april 18 2007 sea floor laboratory offshore british columbia washintgton and oregon yes more sea floor laboratories i posted just last week about a somewhat similar plan for monterey submarine canyon this one is in the northeastern pacific ocean offshore of bc washington and oregon here are the highlights from this article in sciencedaily neptune north east pacific time series undersea networked experiments is a joint u s canada venture led by the university of victoria in canada and the university of washington in the united states located in the northeast pacific on the active juan de fuca tectonic plate neptune will allow scientists to monitor biological oceanographic and geological processes over a period that could stretch to more than two decades six unmanned sea floor nodes each roughly the size of a sport utility vehicle and each hosting an array of instruments equipment and video cameras will be installed on the ocean floor in canadian waters the first stage of neptune is scheduled to start in summer 2008 let s hope their equipment doesn t get destroyed by a turbidity current on the other hand we could use the data posted by brianr at 4 18 2007 0 comments labels marine science monday april 16 2007 where on google earth 8 i m not gonna give any clues not until there s at least a few guesses posted by brianr at 4 16 2007 10 comments labels where on google earth saturday april 14 2007 video of landslide in japan update as of aug 07 this video was removed from youtube sorry i finally took 5 minutes and figured out how to embed youtube videos on this blog from time to time i m gonna post geo related footage this one is of a landslide that occurred in japan posted by brianr at 4 14 2007 0 comments labels earth hazards video back to regular life i m nearly done with this latest stint on the shrimp i need to blast about 5 more zircons what a way to spend a friday night i was gonna work on finishing up a paper that needs to get off my desk my upcoming spring review progress report reading a bunch of papers that i ve been meaning to get to and various other research related activities while running this machine the last 3 days instead i played around on the internet surfing the web is such a spasmodic and nonlinear activity it actually goes perfect with running this machine which has a sequence of mindless tasks every 7 minutes i ve been checking out some music related sites blogs i started a list on the sidebar i haven t posted too much about live music on this blog because i just haven t seen much lately the whole finishing up the dang phd thing has gotten in the way i m hoping to change that this summer okay 4 zircons to go posted by brianr at 4 14 2007 2 comments labels randomness friday april 13 2007 friday field foto 12 combined flow ripples i realized today that i haven t done a friday field foto since early february go here to see all the previous fff posts today i decided to show a close up instead of the usual landscape scale views that i usually post this is from the cretaceous of central utah associated w these rocks and shows some very nice ripple cross laminated sandstone in this case you can very nicely see some slightly climbing ripple laminated sandstone toward the bottom overlain by some ripples heading the other way apparently and then some wavy laminae and smaller scale ripples on top above and below this bed are abundant hummocky cross stratified sandstones indicating that these ripple laminated deposits are likely the product of combined flow oscillatory unidirectional associated with storm waves i e between storm and fair weather wave base posted by brianr at 4 13 2007 0 comments labels friday field foto photographs i ve taken sedimentary structures utah thursday april 12 2007 inverted depositional features on mars fyi this post is not about brand new discoveries you can find information about these features on mars global surveyor website and also check out a science paper from 2003 by malin et al that goes over this stuff in more detail i just felt like posting about it i was living in colorado some years back when i went on a trip to look at the local geology of the front range and had one of those great field moments when the trip leader pointed out some inverted topography in this case a relatively small volcanic eruption produced lava flows that were isolated in a mountain valley since that time the surrounding much softer sediments and sedimentary rocks have eroded away leaving lava capped mesas that are now segmented by the modern river the image below is of golden showing the modern clear creek cutting the lava capped mesa in two yes that complex of structures right in the valley is coors brewery image courtesey of www tablemountains org these modern positive topographic features are representing an ancient valley very cool so while wasting time on the internet in 7 minute increments i came across some old bookmarks about some inverted topographic features on mars the group of features discovered in november 2003 by mars global surveyor mgs have been dubbed the eberswalde delta the image above is fig 2 straight from malin et al 2003 showing the exhumed fluvial distributary fan click on all images for larger view the conspicuous curvilinear features at closer examination are actually positive topography inset of box a below clearly shows the deposits of a migrating meandering stream standing as a plateau above the surrounding area this is a striking example of inverted topography in this case the channel deposits contain coarser material likely sand gravel and therefore are more resistant than the out of channel material likely mud silt no data from the planet surface exists for this location but these are reasonable guesses the cross cutting relationships of this feature also nicely reveal that the wide meander swing was abandonded for a shorter more direct route at some point the image below inset box b shows more cross cutting ridges representing channel fill deposits i would sure like to walk up the edges of those ridges and plateaus to check out the cross section of that fill another thing to notice is the apparent spreading out of coarser grained material from left to right malin et al interpret this as the lobe deposits at the end of these channel features which seems pretty reasonable to me the implications of all this of course are further evidence of flowing water on mars the big problem we are faced with at this point is not so much if water flowed on mars but when the next generation of rovers are gonna half to brush up on their geochronology posted by brianr at 4 12 2007 0 comments labels geology photos images planetary science wednesday april 11 2007 data sonification although it would likely be a waste of time i have always been tempted to somehow turn geologic data i have collected into sound it is commonplace to convert data into visual representations by which qualitative patterns are evaluated by simply looking at it e g maps less common is converting data into sound and listening for patterns the idea of turning data into sound for analysis is certainly not new e g the geiger counter was invented in the first decade of the 20th century but the application of sonification to varied data types across scientific disciplines has seen more activity in the last couple of decades it is important to make the distinction between music and sound a separate but related discussion would deal with the potential for creating new kinds of avant garde music within this realm check out here 1 and here 2 but that s not what i m talking about data sonification is simply the auditory equivalent of data visualization yes some visual data is certainly striking in its beauty but aesthetic value and scientific value are mutually exclusive in recent years data sonification has been applied especially in biomedical disciplines e g here and here but what about the geosciences what data types in geoscience would be amenable to being listened to one answer to why we haven t seen the value of data sonification demonstrated in this regard is because it has none this approach can most easily be applied with time series data and potentially thickness series data as i discuss below but what about spatial information my intuition is that turning spatial data into something that one can listen to would create something extremely difficult to interpret the two figures below show a waveform top and associated sonogram bottom for an eruption event at mt etna click on the image to go to the webpage for those figures here for the home page 3 or here for a bbc report about the project in general 4 i listened to some of the data from the above project and i have to say i was underwhelmed it should be noted however that i am currently sitting in a room where clicking whooshing and otherwise white noiseing of a magical machine that knows when a zircon was born is overpowering all other sound additionally this particular dataset is a gradual and subtle crecsendo all in all not a very exciting pattern that being said one of the objectives of what they are doing is to figure out a workflow being a sedimentary geologist i measure and describe a lot of vertical sections of stratigraphic successions that are exposed in outcrop or part of wellbore data e g core logs for the subsurface at right is an example of a measured section from outcrop how might we go about sonifying this from my perspective i would want attributes such as lithology grain size bed thickness prominent sedimentary structures presence absence of trace fossils and so on captured in the data the question is would doing this add any value to the process of recognizing and then interpreting observed heard patterns perhaps the value might be when multiple sections are combined i don t know this is one of those topics that is perfect for a blog because i d like to hear what people think do you think your particular type of data could be converted to sound and be of any use further reading and some listening on the web 1 article from feb 2007 sf chronicle about stanford music professor turning data into sound 2 heart chamber orchestra 3 mt etna volcano sonification listening to seismograms 4 bbc news report about mt etna project 5 a spatialized meterological data sonification project pdf posted by brianr at 4 11 2007 1 comments labels geology misc science music blogging in 7 minute increments i haven t blogged in a while it s been really hectic around here but i finally have some free time the only catch is that in comes in increments of approximately 7 minutes in duration i am spending the next few nights dating some detrital zircons on the shrimp a couple of months ago i posted about this avenue of research here each grain takes about that long to cycle through there s a few numbers to be checked and recorded and then you move the beam on to the next grain the good news is that colleagues in my research group are willing to help me out with this analysis the bad news is that since the machine runs 24 7 and they are my samples i m the one who gets to sit here from 7pm until 7am good times i don t mind working the graveyard shift but i really have a hard time the first night once ya get into the groove it s not so bad there is something a little strange being opposite from the rest of society though one of the several random jobs i worked during college was as a night watchman it is definitely a lonely existence some people work these hours for years and years i don t know how they do it anyway hopefully i ll have a chance to catch up on the latest in the geoblogosphere in 7 minute increments posted by brianr at 4 11 2007 1 comments labels academic life randomness science blogs thursday april 05 2007 where on google earth 7 good luck posted by brianr at 4 05 2007 2 comments labels where on google earth deep sea observatory in monterey bay this is really cool check out the article on sciencedaily in a multi institution effort managed by the monterey bay aquarium research institute mbari and funded by the national science foundation 52 kilometers 32 miles of cable were laid along the seafloor of monterey bay this undersea cable will provide electrical power to scientific instruments video cameras and robots 900 meters 3 000 feet below the ocean surface it will also carry data from these instruments back to shore for use by scientists and engineers around the world mbari is a very cool organization i was able to go out on a short research cruise last fall which was a great experience very high tech exploring the deep sea floor is like exploring another planet it will be exciting to see how well this new system works out posted by brianr at 4 05 2007 0 comments labels geology marine science misc science turbidites wednesday april 04 2007 old and eccentric scientist entertainment i just returned from the 2007 american assoc of petroleum geologists aapg annual conference in long beach ca all in all a decent meeting this year although i would argue that publications coming out of aapg have declined in quality in recent years too many case studies about oil fields yawn the meeting still attracts many great researchers from the broader sedimentary geology community if you ve never been the aapg meeting is a single meeting for two general types those who use geology to find oil and those who use the oil industry to do geology if you can t tell by this blog i fall into the latter the amount of data and information about sedimentary geology that this industry produces is phenomenal if you re an earth data junkie like me this is a good meeting the topics are typically split nicely for both the nerdy and business types a highlight for me was seeing emiliano mutti speak this guy is a legend in the sedimentary geology particularly turbidite researchers community he is a short old italian professor and extremely fiesty quite entertaning like many scientific communities there are always some eccentric characters that stand out this guy is one of tho...