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The earth is hollow 2008-04-26 05:10:23 Yes, this movie is probably unfortunally completely serious. A man who actually thinks that, not only is the earth hollow, but there’s a governmental conspiracy to cover up the facts about this and that all students of geology are victims to propaganda. And he’s made an exciting movie that proves it… For example, there are [...]
An ancient beach 2008-04-25 08:56:10 During the excursion yesterday we visited a place called “the priests bathtub” (Swe. “prästens badkar”). It’s a rocky sandstone beach in the village of of Vik on the east coast of the province of Skåne (Scania) in Sweden. The sandstone is called “Hardeberga sandstone” (or Hardeberga quartzite since most parts of it actually has metamorphosed [...]
Death by hammer 2008-04-25 05:03:42 All over the news. An Arizona hiker killed a rabid bobcat (lynx) with his geologist’s hammer. Funny, because just yesterday our professor told a story about a geologist in Sweden several years ago that supposedly killed (in self defense) a raging moose with his hammer. Don’t know if its completly true, but the events today [...]
Oil Shale Trilobites 2008-04-24 12:18:00 Todays excursion took us, among many things and places to the oil shale deposits (Sv. Alunskiffer) at Andrarum in the south east of Skåne (Scania) in Sweden. These shales dates from the middle and late Cambrian periods (around 500 Ma)
These are my first trilobites ever! They are very small, Agnostus pisiformis, around 0.5 mm [...]
Welcome! 2008-04-23 08:12:25 This is my first post on the blog and I bid you welcome. I hope to use this blog frequently to share with you thoughts on the geosciences with focus on geology.
But other topics might arise like the climate, archaeology, politics, religion, philosophy and science fiction. I am a geek of the hominid [...] Read more:Welcome
Unknown rocks 2008-04-27 11:29:07 I have two pieces of rock which I cannot identify for sure since Im quite new at geology. I would like your opinions of them and what you know or think. I have no instruments at home so the photos is basically what you get. If you aren’t sure, an educated guess is better than [...] Read more:Unknown
The island of Gotland 2008-04-27 03:04:49 Gotland is the largest island in Sweden. It’s a great place to visit for many reasons, not the least for its history and geology.
The islands largest town Visby belonged to the German Hanseatic-league during the middle ages (it was a community of traders that controlled most of northern Europe at this time). A town [...]
Earth, a big ball of air 2008-04-26 13:27:01 Its quite odd to imagine, but there’s actually a higher ratio of oxygen bound in the minerals of the earth’s crust than there is free in our breathable atmosphere. 46-49% mass in the crust, 21% in the atmosphere in comparison. And that’s not all, the oxygen makes some 93% total volume of all mass on [...] Read more:Earth
Billebjer 2008-04-28 10:48:38 Today, in the lovely spring weather we have here in the south of Sweden, I took a small trip out to the nature reserve called Billebjer just outside my town of Lund. It’s part of the horst that is called Rommeleaasen, a horst that is part of a greater geological system called Tornqvist zone. Basically [...]
Creationism at the universities 2008-04-30 10:09:33 A question. When studying paleontology or just geology in general at universities and colleges in the US, how much room is given to consideration for the feeling of creationists and others who dont believe in evolution or the geological time scale? One easliy gets the impression from media and internet forums that more and more [...] Read more:Creationism
Fennoscandia 2008-05-03 04:12:37 Perhaps I should share some general geological information about my part of the world.
Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula was formed geologically from the continent of ”Baltica” which today is called the Baltic Shield or the Fennoscandian Shield. It consists of today’s Sweden, Finland, Norway, Northwestern Russia and parts of the Baltic Sea (not Denmark geologically). [...]
Garnet, Olivine and Iron slag 2008-05-05 09:44:53 Got a new camera. Nothing fancy, a "Canon digital Ixus 950 is". But it had a nice macro-function so i took som new photos just for fun.
Picture below is a garnet crystal inside of a amfibolitic rock. Hornblende to be precise. Picked it up on an excursion.
Picture below is of a olivine crystal (or a [...] Read more:Garnet
Soil travels 2008-05-08 10:40:32 Today I was on an excursion around Skåne looking at different bogs and marshes. We drilled soil samples and learned to see the difference between different types of soil, clay, mud and peat. We learned to how to spot the level of humification, acidity and some about the more important fossils of the different stratas. [...]
The problem of recruitment? 2008-05-10 04:00:49 At the Swedish universities, the departments of geology complains about the trouble of recruiting students. The need and the supply don’t match and you can read about it in the papers some times. And it was also one of the first things our geology teacher spoke about.
The reason is said to be that in [...]
Tracking the Ice Age 2008-05-14 14:17:03 Today’s excursion took us to see several types of glacial soil deposits like eskers, sandurs tills, talus, tufa and moraines. I must say that the study of glacial soil formations is much more complicated than I’ve imagined. There are just so many types of formations that I’ve never heard of before studying geology. Not to [...] Read more:Tracking
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