In the News

At www.physorg.com/print251104689.html .... we learn that the asteroid that came close to earth earlier in the year will do the same thing next year. Known

An excellent piece by guest poster William McClenney at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/16/the-end-holocene-or-how-to-make-ou... which is an update on an earlier posting. His argument is that CAGW people are

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-17353470 ... animal and human fossil footprints found in peat and covered by sand at Borth beach in Ceredigion have been dated between four

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313163921.htm ... 'flying through a geomagnetic storm' is an astronaut onboard the International Space Station commenting on what he can see as he flies

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313103853.htm ... news that the Thera volcano (Santorini) is filling up with fresh magma - is it about to blow? At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120313140434.htm ... a

In a book picked up from a charity shop, Art and History of Egypt by Alberto Carlo Carpiceci, it begins with some extraordinary geological information

The Mariana Trench in the Pacific has been mapped (mentioned in an earlier piece) with ultrabeam sounding technology and scientists, subsequently, have measured the depth

Various attempts to equate the low growth tree ring event of 1628-5BC with the Thera volcano are not supported by acidity peaks in ice cores.

This story is a year old but Ive fished it out as it offers an alternative explanation for the Younger Dryas event - see http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/06/was-pleistocene-mass-...

The police received a number of calls concerning a huge fireball that crossed the sky from Scotland to Devon around 21.40 on March 3rd, escribed

The Ohio Archaeology Blog, another excellent site - see http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/03/ancient-american-pilgrimage... comments on a paper in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology that claims that 'religiously motivated

Al-Ahram (published in Cairo - see http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1087/he2.htm) has been running some nice pieces on the Greek period in Egypt which will interest members coming from

Not CAGW magic tricks this time but the YD boundary impact hypothesis has suddenly made a comeback - in PNAS (see www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1110614109 or http://cosmictusk.com/pnas-evidence-from-central-mexico-supporting-the-Y...). Further

An interesting guest post at Anthony's site - see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/03/new-questions-on-isostacy-and-mean... ... a look at all the things that might affect global sea level - and

Gary has sent in details of a paper that can be found at www.eos.ubc.ca/~mjelline/453website/eosc453/E_prints/1999RG900016.pdf which has the subject of 'tidal rhythmites' - an interesting subject

The Times (Feb 23rd, 2012) has a report by correspondent Tom Whipple on the famous statues of Easter Island and the current excavations taking place

The Slough Observer last week had a report on the history behind the Montem Mound at Salt Hill in Slough. In various sources this was

The Cassini spacecraft has detected a thin atmosphere that includes oxygen and ozone on Saturn's moon, Dione - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-056&cid=release_2012-056. Admittedly, it is a faint

This story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120301143737.htm and begins by saying that it has been assumed that the last Ice Age denuded the Scandinvian landscape of trees

At www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/radical-theory-of-first-a... ... the title says it all and recounts the story of the scallop trawler that hauled up a mastadon tusk and a dark,