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Chapman's Peak Drive unconformity between the Graafwater formation(top) and the Cape Granite (bottom)
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Auckland Volcanic Field
New Zealand's North Island is underrated as a geological wonder. Yes the South Island has mountains and glaciers and faults and, and, and... But the North Island has volcanoes (Figure 1) including...
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Week of Photographs
Jumping on the week of field photos bandwagon (albeit three days late) here are three photos from around Namibia. Enjoy :)Desert pavement and Welwitschia, NW Namibiaroughly 10km from...
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Photo week continued: St Lucia
Following Evelyn, from Geoneys, fantastic idea of a week of geology photos here is my second instalment.St Lucia is one of the windward islands in the lesser Antilles, West Indies. I have fond memories...
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Friday geology photos: Fish River Canyon
The Fish River Canyon is one of Namibia's many wonders. The canyon is marketed as the second biggest in the world after the Grand Canyon. At 550m maximum depth and 160km long it is definitely a baby...
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Aussenkehr
Last year September (2010) I was part of a group hiking the Fish River Canyon. On the way to the canyon, driving north from Cape Town, three of us stopped off in Aussenkehr, just North of the Orange...
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Happy # insert relevant holiday here # to you all
I'm off camping for the next week. So here are some picture from Augrabies National Park, South Africa. The river guilty of carving the canyon is the Orange River :) These were taken in 2006 when we...
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Windhoek's Weird Weather
Ron Schott is hosting the latest Accretionary Wedge. He is asking us to recall the most memorable/significant geologic event that we have directly experienced. I have lived my life in very geologically...
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Learning Geology Online: Sifting The Fake From The Genuine
This may seem like a random topic. But I come from a education system where the academic year begins now or within the next month and with all the talk about the importance of lectures it seemed...
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Wednesday Rocks: #1
Wednesday rocks will be my regular mid-week post of a cool, in my opinion, geo-related photo with a bit of an explanation. Today's image is from the Cape Fold Belt (CFB), which is a mini meme started...
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Wednesday Rocks: #2
Whakarewarewa As I have mentioned before, New Zealand's North Island is rife with volcanic activity. I spent part of December and January on the North Island and part of that time was spent camping...
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Wednesday Rocks: #3
As this Wednesday Rocks being posted 40 minutes into Australia Day (Thursday 26th January) it's fitting that the subject is Australian.Springbrook National Park, Queensland.Natural BridgeIn November...
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Wednesday Rocks: #4
The petrified forest in Namibia's Erongo Region is the result of glacial outwash at the end of a Carboniferous-Permian, Gondwana wide glaciation. The trees are Dadoxylon Arber, an extinct conifer and...
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Wednesday Rocks: #5
I've been in the lab so today's Wednesday Rocks is a teaser. The first photo is of the of the Brandberg, Namibia's highest mountain. The second photo is one of the perks of pottering around looking at...
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Accretionary Wedge 46: Geology, Life and Civilization
This month's Accretionary Wedge was inspired by two events demonstrating the interplay between geology and civilization. First was a segment from 'How the Earth Made Us' narrated by Prof. Iain Stewart....
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