Conventional wisdom for using corals as a paleo sea level indicator says that corals must live below the low tide level. This tidal pool, which has a sill above low tide, seems to break this rule!

It is probably going to be a while before I can make it back to Kumamoto after the earthquake earlier this week, but my wife sent me some pictures of our apartment. There is a big crack on the wall, but inside the only important thing that broke was the ANU mug I got when I handed in my PHD thesis.

This is very cool: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

14,000-year-old archeological find affirms Heiltsuk Nation's ice age history | CBC News

An ancient settlement uncovered on B.C.'s Central Coast has been carbon dated at 14,000 years old — one of the oldest ever found on Pacific Northwest Coast — supporting the oral history of the Heiltsu...

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There was a big earthquake in Kumamoto a few minutes ago. I was working in the town closest to the epicenter just a few days ago... earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I have posted the video version of episode 8 of the Raised Beaches Podcast. I discuss about the famous paleo sea level scientist, Paolo Pirazzoli, including the work he did in the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjYN...

Raised Beaches Podcast: Episode 8 - Profile of Paolo Pirazzoli, paleo sea level scientist

YouTube video by Evan Gowan

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I have posted the video version of episode 8 of the Raised Beaches Podcast. I discuss about the famous paleo sea level scientist, Paolo Pirazzoli, including the work he did in the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjYN...

Raised Beaches Podcast: Episode 8 - Profile of Paolo Pirazzoli, paleo sea level scientist

YouTube video by Evan Gowan

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I have released episode 8 of the Raised Beaches Podcast, where I give a profile on the famous paleo sea level scientist, Paolo Pirazzoli. www.buzzsprout.com//2401751/epi...

Episode 8: Profile of Paolo Pirazzoli, paleo sea level scientist - Raised Beaches Podcast

Raised Beaches Podcast: Episode 8In this episode, I give an overview of the paleo sea level scientist, Paolo Pirazzoli.-----Notes and References-----Evelpidou et al 2017. Paolo Antonio Pirazzoli (1939...

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More of these showing up every year as the ice retreats www.pegasuscavingclub.org/sarlaccs-pit

I have released episode 8 of the Raised Beaches Podcast, where I give a profile on the famous paleo sea level scientist, Paolo Pirazzoli. www.buzzsprout.com//2401751/epi...

Episode 8: Profile of Paolo Pirazzoli, paleo sea level scientist - Raised Beaches Podcast

Raised Beaches Podcast: Episode 8In this episode, I give an overview of the paleo sea level scientist, Paolo Pirazzoli.-----Notes and References-----Evelpidou et al 2017. Paolo Antonio Pirazzoli (1939...

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Fun bit: "we" didn't make this! Our older close "cousins" did.

Carausius@carausius286.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the Clacton Spear. At 420,000 years old, it is the oldest known worked wooden weapon. It was found in 1911 in Clacton by amateur pre-historian Samuel Warren. It is approx 40cm long, 4cm wide & so is only the spear tip. Similar wooden spears (300,000 years old) have been found in Germany.

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Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program

The Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering and social...

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This poor guy had a meteorite crash through his house (luckily not hurt!), and it turned out to be a very rare type of meteorite. I wondered why the person was not thanked in the acknowledgements before I realized he was a coauthor on the paper. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Meteor over New York City: Brines in a primitive CM asteroid

A sonic boom that shook New York City announced the fall of a meteorite that preserved the briny subsurface of an alien world.

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Any paleontologists out there that has advice on how one identifies the species of a fossil? I am looking at everything from microfossils (foraminifera), molluscs and corals. Is there a manual that teaches how to do this effectively? I am but a mere modeller!

Romero et al present an ice-free and paleo sea level chronology for James Ross Island in the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula area. They found that the advance of the local ice cap happened sometime after 40,000 years ago, and this implies a period of retreated ice in MIS 3. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

Anyone have experience extracting microfossils out of limestone? I read that using acetic acid on crushed limestone is the way to go. I have never done this before, but am looking to learn! The limestone I am looking at is not super lithified (it is Late Pleistocene) and in theory is mostly forams.

Google Earth Pro will be ending support and will be unavailalbe for new downloads after June 25, 2027! If you are looking for an alternative, try out GeoLibre. - GeoLibre Web: web.geolibre.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo... - Documentation: geolibre.app - Video tutorial: youtu.be/87Cm0QagtxI

US Geological Survey releases data from optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating supporting a *radically* older chronology for the Hot Springs, South Dakota Mammoth Site. It's not 23,000-42,000 years old it's likely *130,000 to 255,000 years old*.

Luminescence Data for the Mammoth Site, Black Hills, South Dakota 2016-19

The ~21 m deep Mammoth Site (MS) bone bed site at Hot Springs, South Dakota, provides a unique opportunity to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions on the northern Great Plains of the United State...

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I have to say, the increasing presence of Cloudflare bot blocking this year is making the usage of the Internet increasingly frustrating. I shouldn't need to email a website administrator to be able to access a website! There has to be a better way of stopping the bots than using Cloudflare.

Several months ago, over a period of ~22 hours, I wrote down some thoughts that have been banging around in my head for the past few years. @geomorphica.bsky.social have just published those thoughts. #GeospatialRevolution 🧪⚒️❄️ journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

I am really struggling with the fact that so much of the literature I want to look at prior to 2000 is not digitized. I don't have a library at my little institute!

A new Open Access study in Geology documents widespread freshwater iceberg scour marks in glacial lakes across the eastern Great Lakes. These features preserve wind direction from a Laurentide Ice Sheet anticyclone ~17.4–12.5 ka. Read more: geosociety.co/Pleistocene Image: Sean Grasing

'Our findings suggest that Siku events may have played a critical role in preconditioning the North Atlantic for Heinrich events' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is summer.

I am finding out that there are a lot of old journals in France (for instance, published before 1990) where there is hardly any record of them online, let alone scans. Where are you, "Revue de géomorphologie dynamique" and "Photo Interprétation"?

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New paper out in QSR 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We establish Younger Dryas and Tapes sea level transgressions of 5-9 and ~10 m, respectively, in southern Norway. The YD sea level transgression and highstand reflect the glacial readvance and subsequent stillstand during the Stadial.

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