http://technorati.com/tag/Accretionary+Wedge Posts tagged with "Accretionary Wedge" on Technorati Thu, 15 May 2008 19:48:01 -0700 Technorati v1.0 http://static.technorati.com/pix/logos/logo_sm.gif http://technorati.com/tag/Accretionary+Wedge support@technorati.com (Technorati Support) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Accretionary Wedge http://harmonictremors.blogspot.com/2008/04/accretionary-wedge-call-for-posts.html http://harmonictremors.blogspot.com/2008/04/accretionary-wedge-call-for-posts.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:13:00 -0700 Though I'm sure everyone who reads this already knows full well about the Earth Day installation of The Accretionary Wedge and has likely already read it, I will declare openly and redundantly that people should still go check it out over at Andrew's blog. For the next issue, I want to know about a geological event you consider most significant to you. That can be a historical event or discovery that pulls in your interest or a more recent event that directly impacted you on a personal level, s 2008-04-29 23:13:00 PDT http://technorati.com/search/harmonictremors.blogspot.com/2008/04/accretionary-wedge-call-for-posts.html 17 30 http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/04/23/airport-blogging-2/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/04/23/airport-blogging-2/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:39:39 -0700 I’m on my way home from a conference in San Antonio … i’m sitting in the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport waiting for my connection and … oh crap, look at this: That sucks. Anyway, the conference went well … very busy with talk, poster, and chairing a session but it was fun. I saw some great talks and posters, mostly within my specialty of deep-marine sedimentology and stratigraphy. A great combination of research focused on numerical/physical modeling of turbidity currents, Quaternary systems, an 2008-04-23 17:39:39 PDT http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2008/04/23/airport-blogging-2/ 69 226 http://www.goodschist.com/2008/04/22/earth-day-sustainability/ http://www.goodschist.com/2008/04/22/earth-day-sustainability/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:10:47 -0700 For more on geologists talking about Earth Day, take a gander over at Andrew Alden’s About:Geology, the host of The Accretionary Wedge #8. Geologists normally have a slightly unfriendly attitude towards floral biota. It is, after all, one of the major obstacles normally preventing the viewing of outcrops. Geologists are also the people who look for, find and then think up fantastic new ways of mining petrological resources, like petroleum, natural gas and coal. The use of these products normal 2008-04-21 18:10:47 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.goodschist.com/2008/04/22/earth-day-sustainability/ 33 88 http://www.goodschist.com/2008/04/22/earth-day-geological-and-sustainable/ http://www.goodschist.com/2008/04/22/earth-day-geological-and-sustainable/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:10:47 -0700 Geologists normally have a slightly unfriendly attitude towards floral biota. It is, after all, one of the major obstacles normally preventing the viewing of outcrops. Geologists are also the people who look for, find and then think up fantastic new ways of mining petrological resources, like petroleum, natural gas and coal. The use of these products normally releases CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and unless this is your first interaction with the modern media in the last 2008-04-21 18:10:47 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.goodschist.com/2008/04/22/earth-day-geological-and-sustainable/ 33 88 http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/03/23/geology-in-the-movies-coarse-grained-villain/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/03/23/geology-in-the-movies-coarse-grained-villain/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:00:02 -0700 Instead of talking about geologists in the movies, my contribution to The Accretionary Wedge #7 is a real quick post about my favorite geology-related villain in a movie — Sandman from Spiderman comics. How awesome is that? This is a villain for a sedimentologist … he’s made out of particles between 0.0625 mm and 2 mm in diameter. I’m not sure what the sorting is. I suppose the next-favorite geology-related villain would Lex Luthor as played by Gene Hackman in the first Superman movie with 2008-03-23 01:00:02 PDT http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2008/03/23/geology-in-the-movies-coarse-grained-villain/ 69 226 http://www.goodschist.com/2008/03/21/geology-in-the-movies-the-chronicles-of-riddick/ http://www.goodschist.com/2008/03/21/geology-in-the-movies-the-chronicles-of-riddick/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:32:09 -0700 The 7th edition of The Accretionary Wedge geoblog carnival has the theme of “Geology/ists in the Movies”. I found the temptation to tackle a movie like The Core (a part of which I looked at in AW 5) truly palpable. Other geo-movie triumphs such as Volcano, Dante’s Peak or Journey to the Center of the Earth were also high on the list. But when I got down to it, I remembered a movie I saw during the second year of my BSc, a part of which struck a chord. During The Chronicles of Riddick, the petr 2008-03-21 03:32:09 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.goodschist.com/2008/03/21/geology-in-the-movies-the-chronicles-of-riddick/ 33 88 http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2008/02/accretionary-wedge-call-for-posts.html http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2008/02/accretionary-wedge-call-for-posts.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:33:49 -0800 Installment #6 of The Accretionary Wedge is up at Lounge of the Lab Lemming, and there are more submissions than ever, all of them definitely hmmm-provoking. I didn't get a post in this time, but I did volunteer to host the next one, so here it is: Geology/ists in the Movies This should be pretty easy - there's no end of movies out there (many made by the SciFi channel, for instance) that attempt, successfully or not, to depict geoscience and geoscientists. Which one is your favorite? Your lea 2008-02-25 17:33:49 PST http://technorati.com/search/magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2008/02/accretionary-wedge-call-for-posts.html 32 89 http://www.goodschist.com/2008/02/24/mt-taranaki-hmmm/ http://www.goodschist.com/2008/02/24/mt-taranaki-hmmm/ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:30:26 -0800 The Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) in the North Island of New Zealand is the terminal point of the Tonga-Kermadec arc, the volcanic arc that traces the Pacific plate’s subduction beneath the Australian plate. It’s all pretty straight forward. The best way to show this is with the image below. In the image, from south to north are Mt Ruapehu, Mt Tongariro and Ngauruhoe, the volcanics associated with Lake Taupo (a caldera lake), the volcanics associated with Lake Rotorua, White island and then a st 2008-02-23 17:30:26 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.goodschist.com/2008/02/24/mt-taranaki-hmmm/ 33 88 http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/28/a-little-quiet-around-here/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/28/a-little-quiet-around-here/ Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:04:48 -0800 My life is all about boxes right now. We are moving to a new place and tomorrow is the big day. It is only 15 miles away, which makes it seem even more ridiculous to pack up everything so neatly only to rip open the boxes an hour later. Such is life. In the meantime, check out some happenin’s on the geoblogosphere: I’ve been enjoying (and getting quite jealous of) Geotripper’s airline chronicles photograph series Tell Callan how those cool ice balls form Alessia continues to post from Antarc 2008-01-28 08:04:48 PST http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/28/a-little-quiet-around-here/ 69 226 http://www.ethicalpalaeontologist.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm#1672473786694661553 http://www.ethicalpalaeontologist.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm#1672473786694661553 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:14:55 -0800 You wait ages for one and then three come along at once... First up, Yami has the fifth edition of The Accretionary Wedge, at Green Gabbro. It's about geological misconceptions and pie. Mmmm, pie... Then Will gets an epic Boneyard up at The Dragon's Tales. Lots of super-keen palaeontologists there, and multiple entries a-go-go! And a new plant-related carnival germinates in the form of Berry Go Round, at Seeds Aside. Lots of discussion about Tahina spectabilis, as one would expect. Well, tha 2008-01-28 07:14:55 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.ethicalpalaeontologist.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm#1672473786694661553 62 158 http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/25/ideas-for-next-the-accretionary-wedge/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/25/ideas-for-next-the-accretionary-wedge/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:54:05 -0800 Although the excitement of The Wedge #5 is still reverberating throughout the geoblogosphere, it’s never too early to start thinking about next month’s installment. Head over to this post at the TAW archive site to discuss ideas and who’s hosting. UPDATE: Lab Lemming is going to host and picked a topic … check it out here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2008-01-25 06:54:05 PST http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/25/ideas-for-next-the-accretionary-wedge/ 69 226 http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2008/01/mmm-pie.html http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2008/01/mmm-pie.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:01:14 -0800 The Accretionary Wedge #5, Geological Misconceptions and Pie, is up, and my post about the mantle and Pie Town made it in! (Along with a few other mentions about how people dislike the "molten mantle" misconception, as well as some other great posts about diamonds, desserts and 3D geology.) Compared to some of the other posts out there, my offering is much less technical, but since I'm pretty new at this I can hopefully work my way up to their quality of discourse. Then again, I'm pretty sure 2008-01-23 12:01:14 PST http://technorati.com/search/magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2008/01/mmm-pie.html 32 89 http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/22/geologic-misconceptions-layer-cake-stratigraphy/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/22/geologic-misconceptions-layer-cake-stratigraphy/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:20:09 -0800 This post is part of the fifth installment of the geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge. The topic is ‘geologic misconceptions’ and it is also National Pie Day. Instead of pie, I discuss cake … a very messy, uneven cake. Head on over to Green Gabbro for info and links to all the posts for TAW #5. ~ I don’t care if the sedimentary layers in this image “look” flat…they’re not. Okay … maybe they are essentially “flat” over a few or even several 10s to 100s of kilometers. But … as 2008-01-22 09:20:09 PST http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2008/01/22/geologic-misconceptions-layer-cake-stratigraphy/ 69 226 http://www.goodschist.com/2008/01/22/geological-misconceptions-ooey-gooey-lava/ http://www.goodschist.com/2008/01/22/geological-misconceptions-ooey-gooey-lava/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:55:13 -0800 The Core is so hilariously wrong in so many places, it’s unimaginable to think that no one in the script room thought to pass that trainwreck of a movie’s script to a scientist before they started filming (the movie actually had a geophysicist by the name of J. Marvin Herndon as a science advisor - although once you learn his background, you start to be less surprised, anyway I digress). Though I don’t want to point out all the problems inherent in the film, as I have things to do, I find it a 2008-01-22 02:55:13 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.goodschist.com/2008/01/22/geological-misconceptions-ooey-gooey-lava/ 33 88 http://www.goodschist.com/2007/12/16/the-accretionary-wedge-4-deskcrops/ http://www.goodschist.com/2007/12/16/the-accretionary-wedge-4-deskcrops/ Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:27:49 -0800 This month’s Accretionary wedge is Deskcrops/My Pet Rock. A tour de force of rock collections, concentrating on the world’s geobloggers detailing their favourite samples. Why are they so interesting? What’s their history? Read on to find out. First up is Andrew Alden from About:Geology who proudly display two of his favourites; A Multiply Fractured Mudstone A cherty mudstone was fractured and invaded several different times by mineral-depositing solutions, then nicely rounded in the Pacific 2007-12-15 18:27:49 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.goodschist.com/2007/12/16/the-accretionary-wedge-4-deskcrops/ 33 88 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/15/a-few-of-my-favorite-pet-rocks/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/15/a-few-of-my-favorite-pet-rocks/ Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:47:26 -0800 For the 4th edition of The Accretionary Wedge blog carnival, which is hosted over at goodSchist, we are showing off our favorite pet rocks (or “deskcrops” as coined by Thermochronic). - The first shot below is an “overview” shot of three of my favorite deskcrops (or, more correctly in this case, bookcasecrops). - 1. Permian Evaporites of the Castile Formation Stopping along Highway 62/180 in between Guadalupe Mtns National Park and Carlsbad Caverns is a favorite for geology field trip 2007-12-15 10:47:26 PST http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/15/a-few-of-my-favorite-pet-rocks/ 69 226 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/13/reminder-the-accretionary-wedge-4-posts-are-due-on-saturday/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/13/reminder-the-accretionary-wedge-4-posts-are-due-on-saturday/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:20:59 -0800 REMINDER!!  This post copied directly from goodSchist.com — go here to see the post and make any comments to Chris. ~  goodSchist is hosting AW episode 4. This month’s theme is “My Pet Rock”. As was decided by no majority at all on the discussion thread, the 4th installment of The Accretionary Wedge geology blog carnival will be “My Pet Rock”. As Ron Schott put it; I think Thermochronic hit on a really interesting theme in writing about rocks in your home/office collection, or Deskcrops 2007-12-13 12:20:59 PST http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/13/reminder-the-accretionary-wedge-4-posts-are-due-on-saturday/ 69 226 http://www.goodschist.com/2007/12/02/the-accretionary-wedge-4-call-for-submissions/ http://www.goodschist.com/2007/12/02/the-accretionary-wedge-4-call-for-submissions/ Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:44:25 -0800 As was decided by no majority at all on the discussion thread, the 4th instalment of The Accretionary Wedge geology blog carnival will be “My Pet Rock”. As Ron Schott put it; I think Thermochronic hit on a really interesting theme in writing about rocks in your home/office collection, or Deskcrops as he coined it (http://apparentdip.blogspot.com/search/label/Deskcrops). Others might prefer to call these pet rocks, but in any case they usually will have interesting stories and many folks have 2007-12-02 01:44:25 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.goodschist.com/2007/12/02/the-accretionary-wedge-4-call-for-submissions/ 33 88 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/01/feedback-for-next-the-accretionary-wedge-topic/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/01/feedback-for-next-the-accretionary-wedge-topic/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:25:37 -0800 Feedback for next The Accretionary Wedge topic Published December 1, 2007 The Accretionary Wedge , science blogs 2007-12-01 12:25:37 PST http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2007/12/01/feedback-for-next-the-accretionary-wedge-topic/ 69 226 http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/11/14/rock-and-life-trace-fossils/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2007/11/14/rock-and-life-trace-fossils/ Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:22:07 -0800 Rock and life: Trace fossils Published November 14, 2007 Patagonia , The Accretionary Wedge , fossil , paleontology , patterns , photographs I've taken , sedimentary structures 2007-11-15 23:22:07 PST http://technorati.com/search/clasticdetritus.com/2007/11/14/rock-and-life-trace-fossils/ 69 226