Andrew Alden

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Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry. Ac...

Colombia declares its entire Amazon biome a reserve for renewable natural resources—effectively bans any new oil exploration, hydrocarbon production, or large-scale mining.
Protected area approx 483,000 sq km—equivalent to the size of Sweden

#TropicalRainforest
#decarbonization
#envhist

A writer has contacted me looking for a geologist's insight into various Bay area rock climbing sites. Not my expertise area but maybe yours? DM me.

Iron sign next to Court Park, Memphis, says "Thomas Alva Edison / In 1865-66 Edison was military telegraph operator with the Federal occupation army, working in a building formerly at the east corner of North Court and November 6 Streets, and boarding next door. Trying to invent an auto-repeat key, he managed to connect New Orleans with New York directly for the first time after the war. As a result, he was discharged by a jealous superior, and he left Memphis."

TIL something else about Memphis.

GSA Triple Section Meeting attendees, vote in the geology-club t-shirt contest and remember what Chuck Berry said: Don't forget Winona!

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

Thank you "Cali" Bentley

Picture of a possible diogenite: a piece of broken rock, very dark from the inside, light grey from the outside.

Eerste goede foto van de meteoriet van gisteren:
First good picture of yesterday's meteorite (found in Koblenz):

I should call it the object, not the meteorite.

The paper looks correctly brown, so this meteorite must actually be blue-green.

Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

I know just the spot

You are at a graywacke outcrop.

Gore Cyn west of Kremmling CO

Whitewater river flows toward viewer in steep rocky canyon w/jagged walls, railroad with tunnels on right bank

Upper Colorado River yesterday

Memphis, then Houston

achievement unlocked!

Roan Cliffs in eastern Utah seen from the California Zephyr

Utah this morning

There's always some little thing.

Ocher quarry update The former campus of Holy Names University, in the hills just above the Warren Freeway, has been for sale for a while, but no one seems to want to move an existing college or start a new one there.…

New blog post!

Dark orange-red siliceous ocher, Oakland Hills, with various light blue-green lichens

New blog post coming mañana

But dams and stills are mas macho

HB2U!

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

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It's a weird day. Today marks the one-year anniversary of my illegal firing from NOAA. And what a year it has been.

In the last year, I've seen pretty much my entire 15 year NOAA career attacked.

Bye Climate Prediction Center
Bye Climate.gov
Bye State Deptartment climate work

1/3

Chunk of ocherous colluvium, red-orange, on bland duff

chunk of reddish precursor rock next to a concrete step with "10-80/SWS/Simon" hand-inscribed on it

How to date the old Ohlone ocher quarry? . . . Aha, an absolute age clue!

For some reason(s) Male nean. X Female sap. seems to have predominated, then all nean. genes were suppressed in sap. across the board.

"All the women in my workplace are nervous. Must be the female brain."

Looks like a Bruce Beasley lamp.

We'll be unmaking bad coastal decisions the rest of our lives.