Today we went to Hughes Bore Hole outside Portage PA. We couldn’t have picked a better day. The weather was perfect and we had the pleasure to hang out with Dr. K. This and Zion NP are my favorite field trips this semester. I tried to upload video of the actual discharge but the web [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Matt’s Field Trip
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged field trip, human impact, PA on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Geologic Wonders (Disaster) of Pennsylvania – Centralia, Underground Mine Fire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged human impact, PA on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh Centralia and all your smoggy glory! Since I live only about 6 miles as the crow flies from this place it seems only appropriate to tell the story. It is a small town on the edge of the Anthracite region only a few miles away from Ashland and Shamokin. In short there was an [...]
Predator X
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fossil, paleo on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new sea going reptile has been crowned king of the carnivores: Predator X. This is the code name for the animal, found in Svalbard by a Norwegian team of scientists. The creature is thought to be around 147 million years old and is a member of the pliosaur family. The creature was 15 metres (49 ft) [...]
Working in Antarctica
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Antartica, jobs on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
sitting in K-252 looking at job opportunities in Antartica while listening to some south park in the background. Professor Goeke just handed me the link to view the jobs available and I’m thinking of applying. Nana runs the contract services for Raytheon Polar services Company. Food and janitorial services, recreational management, commissary operations and other [...]
Bottled Water – Where Does That Water Come From?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hydrogeology on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found this article on geology.com and thought it was really neat, mainly it answers some questions that I have always had about bottled water. People started using spring water in the 1700’s to drink out of and bathe in and in 1767 a company started bottling the water. During this time mineral water and [...]
Mining in New Zealand
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mineralogy and Optical Mineralogy on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an interesting article talking about profitable mining in New Zealand. In 2001 In 2001, 2.7 million tons of ironsand (titaniferous magnetite) was extracted and exported to Japan. Iron ore in the form of titanomagnetite-rich sand derived from the coastal erosion of the Mount Taranaki volcanics was mined from beach and dune sands, concentrated at [...]
Sinnemahoning Portage Creek NaOH Disaster of 6/30/2006
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged human impact, hydrogeology, PA on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Sinnemahoning Portage Creek is located in McKean and Cameron County and is regionally famous for its excellent trout and smallmouth bass fishing. My family has a cabin in the nearby area and my father lived in the area for his entire childhood. So needless to say this accident really hit me hard. On June [...]
Death Valley
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Death Valley, field trip, structure on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My trip was located in Death Valley National Park. I choose Death Valley because I am very interested in Structural Geology and feel the Basin and Range would be a cool place to study. My trip was fairly unexciting for most of my stops we were not able to see the fault or any evidence [...]
Geologic Wonders of PA- Hickory Run Boulder Field
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged glacial, PA on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Hickory Run Boulder field in Northern Carbon County in Hickory Run State Park is reported to be the largest boulder field in Pennsylvania with dimensions of 1600 feet long and 400 feet wide taking up an area about 15 acres. There is little if any noticeable slope to the field so the normal formation [...]
Traffic?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged readership on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So, I’ve been running around quite a bit recently catching up after the spring break trip, thinking about courses that will be offered in the fall, and in general trying to keep one step ahead of the students. Today during the course of checking on the students’ blog posts I finally looked at the [...]
