Highly Allochthonous

Google Maps alphabets
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/5757548/The-Google-Maps-alphabet-UK-an-A-to-Z-of-the-British-Isles.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5214494/Rhett-Dashwoods-Google-Maps-alphabet.html

NOVA Geoblog reviews "Reading the Rocks" by Marcia Bjornerud [adding to Amazon wish list in 3..2..]
http://nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/geoblog/2010/02/reading-rocks-by-marcia-bjornerud.html
(via @Geoblogfeed)

More geotagging propaganda:
http://geofroth.org/?p=475
[You can do things like this
(via @drjerque)

The Other California: Be a Geotripper Geoblogger for a Day! Crowd-sourced geoblogging!
http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/02/other-california-be-geotripper.html
(via @Geoblogfeed)

Shell's David Hone on iPad vs CRU pseudoscandal: We love tech, but science not so much...
http://tinyurl.com/ydssrnh
(via @mtobis, @EnergyCollectiv)

Icy volcanic breccia [as in, ice clasts WITHIN volcanic breccia...]
http://nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/geoblog/2010/02/icy-volcanic-breccia.html
(via @Geoblogfeed)

Renaissance of Technicolor dinosaurs continues. Last week's researchers were "in the Stone Age".
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/the_renaissance_of_technicolour_dinosaurs_continues_and_the.php
(via @edyong209)

New maps of Pluto! Best until New Horizons within 6 months of 2015 flyby
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/pluto-20100204.html
(via @elakdawalla, @plutokiller)

How can we bridge between geologic and human timescales to help avert disaster? Read AGU's Haiti blog:
http://www.agu.org/blog/Haiti/?p=48
(via @theAGU)

Free access to AGU papers on Caribbean plate for a limited time.
http://www.agu.org/news/archives/2010-02-02_CarribeanPlatePapers.shtml
(via @theAGU)

OK, that's pretty darn cool : Termite Mounds from Space: Myrmecos Blog.
http://myrmecos.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/finding-termites-on-google-earth/

Must-red Eureka column on science and journalistic balance by @markgfh.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/eureka/article7011355.ece

Why the denial camp is winning (and we're all losing) the climate wars.
http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2010/02/why_the_denial_camp_is_winning.php?utm_source=selectfeed&utm_medium=rss
(via @ScienceBlogs)

Searching for Africa's Last Glaciers in the Mountains of the Moon, Uganda.
http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2237
(via @highlyanne, @YaleE360)

Cool, if small, picture: Fukutokuoka no Ba Undersea Volcano Erupts.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100204p2a00m0na017000c.html
(via @GeologyDotCom)

Some nice photos of dikes that fed Deccan flood basalts, India.
http://suvratk.blogspot.com/2010/02/plumbing-beneath-deccan-volcanic.html

Excellent post at Eruptions setting recent Yellowstone eq swarm in context. All structure, no magma.
http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/02/the_structure_of_calderas.php

To end this week's space budget discussions on a cheerier note: Cassini Mission extended until 2017. Huzzah!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini-20100203.html

Ediacaran animal trails? Evidence of 'anemone-like' movement in 565 Myr rocks from Newfoundland
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100203085914.htm
(via @geosociety)

Single-celled organism grows into 'monstrous beach ball' 20 cm diameter. A single cell!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18468-zoologger-living-beach-ball-is-worlds-largest-cell.html
(via @rowanNS)

Wind abraded ventifacts on Mars and Earth: IAG Planetary Geomorph image of the month.
http://www.psi.edu/pgwg/images/feb10image.html
(via @highlyanne)

Wow. Another incredible Hubble image... of an asteroid collision in space!
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/02/02/hubble-captures-picture-of-asteroid-collision/
(via @DiscoverMag, @BadAstronomer)

Airborne Radar Image of Post-Quake Haiti . Some interesting background: 40km fault rupture, propogating W from epicentre.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-037

If civilisation collapses, how much of our knowledge would future humans be able to retrieve? Not much...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527451.300-digital-doomsday-the-end-of-knowledge.html
(via @rowanNS)

Such an important point: Writers are Made not Born
http://serc.carleton.edu/earthandmind/posts/born.html

Simulations suggest rocky Earth-mass worlds could have formed in Alpha Centauri binary system. But in what orbits?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18451-what-alien-worlds-orbit-our-nearest-star.html

Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids (w/video). Wonder if this relevant for core/mantle?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/self-stirring-liquids/
(via @ScienceSoWhat)

Something rotten in the state of palaeontology. Decay removes acquired characters first. Interesting!
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100131/full/news.2010.45.html/ [subscription only]
(via @NatureNews)

Online gallery for geology & art exhibit. Interesting, wish was more description of pieces.
http://www.twowallgallery.com/geosapiens.html
(via @clasticdetritus)