Here's the frontispiece from Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology. The book was first published in three volumes in 1830 to 1833, but this is from an 1857 edition. This cross-section shows an amazing understanding of the basic geologic processes that form the Earth's crust: plutonism, volcanism, metamorphism, sedimentation, and folding. Like most geologists (at least …
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On Saturday, my family and I had the pleasure of taking a geological tour of the area at the base of the Front Range, just west of Denver. Our tourguide (it was just me and my family) was a USGS geologist who is a member of the Affiliation of Christian Geologists. We started with the …
This item was originally posted in June 2006. I have added it to my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries (with some editing). Additionally, this is being submitted to the January 2009 Accretionary Wedge Geoscience Blog Carnival, …
Some good humor from Looking for Detachment: Geologists and Engineers. I got some good laughs.
This may be new to some of you, but Charles Darwin did not reject God because of evolution, but because of other factors, such as anger over the death of his 10-year old daughter. Darwin was more of an agnostic than an atheist, and he certainly was no anti-God crusader like Richard Dawkins is today. …
After 9000 years of dormancy, Chaiten Volcano, in a remote part of southern Chile, has been in an eruptive phase since May 2008. NASA's Earth Observatory posted these images of the 1/19/09 dome collapse yesterday: These images above don't do justice to the high resolution versions available at Earth Observatory: In these false color images, …
From CNN: Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real. The results of a University of Illinois survey of scientists include the following: 90% of the scientists surveyed agreed that global temperatures have risen compared to levels from before 1800. 82% agreed that human activity been a significant factor in this increase of mean global temperatures. 97% of …
NASA's Image of the Day Gallery has a concept of what the next lunar rover will look like: Here's the description from NASA: NASA's Next Generation Moon Rover In the year 2020, NASA will be back on the moon. This time NASA will explore thousands of miles of the moon's surface with individual missions lasting …
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Yesterday I wrote briefly about the ongoing release of methane from the crust of Mars. This is the topic of today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: Here's the description from APOD: Why is there methane on Mars? No one is sure. An important confirmation that methane exists in the atmosphere of Mars occurred last week, …
From LiveScience.com: Mars Methane: Geology or Biology? Plumes of methane gas detected over certain locations on Mars in 2003 could point to active geological processes on the red planet, or perhaps even to methane-burping microbes deep below the Martian surface, a new study reports. There is no firm evidence for life on the red planet, …
The ocean floor on Google Earth has always been a little fuzzy, but the good folks at Google have recently improved the resolution: HT: Clastic Detritus Grace and Peace
One of the most prominent old-Earth creation organizations is Reasons to Believe, headed by astronomer Hugh Ross. Ross is an advocate of what is known as the day-age interpretation of Genesis 1-2. In the day-age theory, the days of Genesis 1 are not literal 24-hour days, but represent vastly longer periods of time. Ross advocates …
I've linked to NASA's Earth Observatory a number of times. Today, the Boston Globe's "The Big Picture" has a collection of some of the best EO images, including these: HT: The Map Room Grace and Peace
From NASA's Earth Observatory: Raven Ridge, Colorado. This ridge, south of Dinosaur, Colorado, apparently has an exposure of the K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) boundary, which marks whatever event ended the age of dinosaurs (asteroid? volcanism? the real reason dinosaurs went extinct?). This gives me two places within a day's drive to visit the K-T boundary, the other …
From National Geographic: Meteorite Triggered Ancient New York Tsunami? A meteorite impact off Long Island 2,300 years ago may have set off a huge tsunami that flooded the New York City region, a new study says.It's not known whether any ancient settlements were in the path of the proposed killer waves, but "any significant tsunami …
The carbon cap-and-trade system that many are pushing seems to be somewhat like medieval indulgences. An indulgence (from a Protestant perspective) was a document one could purchase in order to obtain forgiveness for sins. A company, or a country, can reduce its "guilt" for producing carbon dioxide by buying credits from another company/country that doesn't …
A year ago, Geology.com News had pointed to an article predicting that the price of crude oil would decline due to high rates of exploration and lowered demand. The prediction was a decline to as low as $30 a barrel. After last summer's price spike, the price of a barrel of crude is now below …
I received a letter from a friend with questions about the age of the Earth, and how to raise children in a family where one parent is an old-Earth creationist, and the other is a young-Earth creationist. Here is my response, with the name changed and some of the letter changed as well: Dear Joe, …
Magma Cum Laude has a couple of nice paintings of Vesuvius, including this one: Pierre-Jacques Volaire, The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1777; from the North Carolina Museum of Art HT: The Volcanism Blog Grace and Peace
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