In the News

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/uob-gba100914.php ... the Greek Bronze Age ended 100 years earlier than thought according to a Bayesian averaging of C14 dates undertaken in a recent

October 19th, one week from now and Comet Siding Spring will pass closely to Mars. NASA is prepared - go to http://phys.org/print332086289.html The comet will

At http://phys.org/print331792615.html ... a post on a professor from Zimbabwe, Clapperton Chatanetsa Mavhunga (I like his Christian name, presumably from a missionary or somebody the

Australian geologist Sam Carey, in the 1930s, explored the continental drift theory of Alfred Wegener, which in those days was regarded as junk science. Carey

Thunderbolts for October 6th is 'I'm singeing in the rain' and is about charged water molecules interacting with Saturn's ionosphere - ionic rain from Saturn's

At http://terracycles.com/joomla/sections/5-earth/36-expandingearthjune2012 ... in Ethiopian a large crack opened up in the crust of the Earth in just a few days in 2005. At the

Tim Cullen is turning his attention to fluid dynamics but not sure what the end result will be - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/couette-flow-1-viscosity/ ... which may

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/10/-tiny-fossil-galaxies-of-first-sta... ... is an article on the discovery of a couple of very small galaxies in the vicinity of the Milky Way that appear

At www.q-mag.org/anne-marie-de-grazia-my-encounter-with-a-bolide.html ... she describes the coincidence of a bolide lighting up the night sky at roughly the same time as a Near Earth asteroid

The title of this blog post caught my eye - 'Velikovsky and the Weather' - go to http://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/velikovsky-and-the-weather/ Chambers is a refreshing type of global

Each volcanic eruption gives birth to a unique signature in the composition of the ash and in the glass shards that lodge within soil. Even

We are used to reading about Birkeland Currents at Thunderbolts and the various plasma based web sites but they are now part of mainstream -

Subhasis Sen is the author of 'Decoding the Solar System' (2011), a retired Indian geologist. He has taken an especial interest in the geology of

There is an illuminating article at www.icr.org/article/mount-st-helens-catastrophism/ ... which shows quite clearly that sedimentary geology can be laid down very quickly and this contradicts the

At http://expansion.geologist-1011.net/ ... the expanding earth theory is discussed from the perspective of a mainstream geologist. He begins by noting the expanding earth theory relies

At http://palaeomagnetism.geologist-1011.net/ ... there is an interesting debate on magnetic reversals in Earth history. He concludes by saying the causes of magnetic reversals remian unclear

Anthony Watts adds the thought - one wonders how many of these newly found thousands of volcanic sea mounts are producing co2 that bubbles into

There are at least four posts on the Forum at this site in which nobody has responded to, even though the subject matter is very

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/02/one-wonders-how-many-of-these-newl... ... scientists have created a map of the world's sea floor using satellite data. Thousands of previously uncharted mountains can be seen rising

At http://phys.org/print331284112.html ... the claim that gravitational waves from shortly after the Big Bang had been detected has turned out to be a dud squib.