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Category Archives: Geology
What I am reading this weekend (August 30, 2013)
…prior to the arrival of students, the beginning of school, and the traditional ramping up of Fall. The Academy Fight Song, by Thomas Frank (The Baffler) The coming of “academic capitalism” has been anticipated and praised for years; today it … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Geology, Teaching
Tagged Academia, China, Lower Pleistocene, Nihewan basin, poetry, taphonomy
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The importance of dates in the Plio-Pleistocene
This week’s discussion of the new fossils from Northern Kenya once again raises the issue of the critical role played by precise geological dating at this time period. This is hardly a new issue, but one that perhaps gets too … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Geology
Tagged dating, early Homo, fossil dates, olduvai gorge
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School of Rock
I spent the morning getting training for my daughter’s fourth-grade school geology field trip. It turns out discussions of “Roxbury puddingstone” (seen below) just make me hungry.