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   Mount St Helens volcano went off in May of 1980 and it is reputed to have formed geological sedimentary layers in a matter of

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150629162542.htm ... researchers using satellite images of the ancient shores of Lake Chad as well as studying sediments from the lake to calculate its

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn27803-slomo-reveals-how-enigmatic-sprites... ... is one of those stories that has popped up at a lot of web sites and blogs - even at WattsUpWithThat. At

Derek Ager's book, 'The Nature of the Stratigraphic Record' (Halstead Press:1973) is a geological gem. It is written by somebody who has been described as

SIS member Adam Stuart has been keeping some of us up to mode on the current Thunderbolts conference in the US. He has forwarded links

I like, now and again, to have a delve around Malaga Bay, sticking a finger in to find a plum to extract. At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/deprecating-photomagnetism/ ...

TimCullen is no respecter of settled science and the big wigs that pontificate - and the academics that prevaricate (but some of his alternative views

The Philae Lander has woken up (last week) and now we have an announcement from ESA that the Rosetta mission is being extended and that

Tim Cullen turns his attention to String Theory - and he is not exactly being friendly (see https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/string-theory/ .. and begins his blast with the

At http://phys.org/print354260948.html ... the magnetic complexity inside and outside the Earth has been modelled (see three images below) using data from the SWARM satellites. At

The Royal Society, that august body that is fond of admiring itself in the window and bending the forelock towards the upper echelons, mouthing platitudes

This story is at http://phys.org/print354214493.html ... we have a computer simulation of the interaction of the solar wind with ions (electrically charged particles) in the

The sheer power of geological forces is displayed in the picture below, an area of land that was dredged up above sea level during an

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/archaeologists-disc... .... in Shanxi Province, it is being suggested, was the place where China began, around 2200BC. The capital of the Yao period has

    Still there. The above is a image of solar filaments, one taken on May 28th and the other in June, a month later. The

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/did-early-europeans... ... which comes from a paper by Polish researchers looking at Gravettian activity (in the Upper Palaeolithic). They appear to have roasted mammoth

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/fossil-from-20-foot... ... which is somewhat bigger than a modern day Great White. The vertebrai of the 20 foot shark were found in Cretaceous limestone

At www.thunderbolts.info ... Wal Thornhill has been talking about the Rosetta mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. There is also an analysis of cometary electro-chemistry by Franklin

It seems that the consensus and much quoted hypothesis that the high temperatures on Venus are the result of runaway global warming caused by lots

At http://phys.org/print353753684.html ... apparently, the moon is engulfed in a permanent, but lopsided, cloud of dust that increases in density when annual meteor showers such