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Loess formation
16 October 2013 > GeologyThere is another paper out this month that may be saying more than it actually admits in the written form - go to www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131014221537.html where

The lightning and the Scree
16 October 2013 > ElectromagnetismFred Hoyle, in one of his books, Ice I think, made a connection with scree formation and lightning, and thought it unlikely that frost action

The hard and the soft of it
12 October 2013 > Mythology, PhysicsCadbury's Milk Tray, brought by a hunk to a swooning lady, was depicted with a selection of hard and soft centres, chocolates to suit any

Worlds in Collision
12 October 2013 > AstronomyA new explanation for the current rotational state of the planet Mercury has been offered - see http://phys.org/print300689491.html. The rotation is two thirds of the

Chelyabinsk and ISON
12 October 2013 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print300699048.html ... Finnish scientists in collaboration with the Russians have been looking at the Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over Russia in February. This was

NCGT Journal (September 2013)
12 October 2013 > GeologyThe September issue of NCGT Journal is now available to download and print out in pdf at www.ncgt.org/newsletter.php (or www.ncgt.org/nws/909848777ac2dc52479540e3efc31add.pdf) ... William Thompson forwarded the

Variations in Gravity
12 October 2013 > AstronomyIn one of those science puzzles the general public has generally been sheltered, for whatever reason, the consensus has admitted problems did exist with moving

Stonehenge and 10,000BC
12 October 2013 > ArchaeologyStonehenge is going back further into the past according to www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-24488759 ... or rather, a Mesolithic site on a hill overlooking Stonehenge is proving to

The Royals and Electricity in the atmosphere
11 October 2013 > ElectromagnetismIn 1251 lightning is said to have destroyed the bedchamber of the queen at Windsor and shook the whole house. In the nearby Windsor Forest

More co2 in the air and ocean 56 million years ago
9 October 2013 > CatastrophismThe boundary event is the same as in yesterday's post, the transition from the Palaeocene to the Eocene, but the date is slightly different -

Rock cut Tombs
9 October 2013 > ArchaeologyAt http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/6thearly-8th-century-yok... ... is about Late Kofun burial catacombs of the 6th to 8th centuries AD, some of which have lovely murals. They are thought

Comet Strike!
9 October 2013 > CatastrophismAt http://phys.org/print300440386.html ... this story has the title, 'first ever evidence of a comet striking the Earth' - and the event is dated 28 million

Dissing the Meteorites
9 October 2013 > ArchaeologyAt http://westerndigs.org/prehistoric-meteorite-shrines-in-arizona-may-be-l... ... No surprise that people were watching the sky in Arizona as they were elsewhere in the world - and built structures to

Little Ice Age - what caused it?
9 October 2013 > CatastrophismAt http://phys.org/print299786071.html ... a new study by climate scientists at the University of Berne in Switzerland has been looking at the Little Ice Age. In

Farmers in Sweden
8 October 2013 > ArchaeologyAt www.thelocal.se/50604/20131004/ ... archaeologists in northern Sweden have come across the remains of farm dating from around 1100 BC, in a completely unexpected location. Is

co2 blamed for geological change 55 million years ago
8 October 2013 > GeologyAt http://phys.org/print300352509.html ... a core sample from New Jersey geology, in a region once beneath the sea (55 million years ago) has clay bands around

Sahara Dust in the Everglades
8 October 2013 > GeologyThis story is at several places with a different emphasis at some of them. At http://phys.org/print300385973.html ... there was an abrupt climate shift in the

Solar Wind and the Atmosphere
8 October 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt http://phys.org/print300354398.html ... a paper in Nature Physics shows for the first time, in academic literature, a direct link between solar storms, shock waves and

Fodder and the Flock
8 October 2013 > Inside scienceAt http://climateaudit.org/2013/10/08/fixing-the-facts-2/ ... Steve McIntyre illustrates how the climate scientists assembling the IPCC report go out of their way to revise items they see as

Is Comet ISON breaking up?
8 October 2013 > AstronomyAt http://phys.org/print300257242.html ... it is being suggested by astronomer Ignacius Ferrin that Comet ISON is beginning to disintegrate - and it has only in the