Friday Rock Blogging: Desert Varnish
Category: Rock Blogging
If you leave something in the desert for thousands of years, it will develop a layer of iron and manganese gunk.
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Maria Brumm is a graduate student at UC Berkeley. She studies hydrogeolo tectohydr gehoo seismohydrololololol ground water in tectonically active settings.
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February 29, 2008
Category: Rock Blogging
If you leave something in the desert for thousands of years, it will develop a layer of iron and manganese gunk.
Posted by Maria Brumm at 8:05 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain in a Jar
I renew my commitment to my thesis every five minutes or so.
Posted by Maria Brumm at 6:05 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2008
Category: Geofluids
Does mud wiggle in 2 dimensions, or 3?
Posted by Maria Brumm at 5:03 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2008
Category: Rock Blogging
With a trillion barrels of oil just sitting around in Wyoming, who needs the Middle East?
Posted by Maria Brumm at 6:54 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2008
Category: Geosciences
If you had $3 billion to spend on a single piece of science, what would you pick?
Posted by Maria Brumm at 1:54 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2008
Category: Links
This week's links: a lunar eclipse, gender in the geosciences, and more.
Posted by Maria Brumm at 3:24 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2008
Category: Geosciences
What is a picture of a wheat-head rachis doing in a paper about the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens?
Posted by Maria Brumm at 8:52 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 18, 2008
Category: Fluff
It's a puzzle. If you figure it out, please join the fun!
Posted by Maria Brumm at 10:03 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 15, 2008
Category: Rock Blogging
Thermal contraction in rocks creates interesting textures for photography.
Posted by Maria Brumm at 7:45 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 14, 2008
Category: Science Culture
Oh look, some very weird straw arguments about graduate student unions.
Posted by Maria Brumm at 9:43 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
