The Anthropocene does not exist!
Category: Geology Lessons
Anthropocene: The Cockroach of the Geologic Time Scale?
Guest “Roaches check in — but they don’t check out!” by David Middleton Who could ever forget this classic 1980 TV commercial, featuring “the Greatest” Muhammad Ali? As Kip Hansen…
The Last Gasp of the Anthropocene?
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) was established in 2009 to see if there was a way to geologically differentiate an Anthropocene Epoch from the Holocene Epoch. The notion has always…
“How CO2 Starvation & Plate Tectonics Caused the Greatest Mass Extinction, the Permian Great Dying”
The gradual sequestering of CO2 over millions of years gradually dropped CO2 to starvation levels that reduced photosynthesis, causing the “phytoplankton blackout” and Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse, wide spread ecosystem disruptions…
PETM: Good Science Meets Science Journalism in the Gulf of Mexico
Guest “Oy vey!” by David Middleton 4 June 2022 Qamariya Nasrullah How ancient ocean life in the Gulf of Mexico escaped mass extinctionThe geology of the sheltered basin helped protect…
Haynesville Shale: Record Natural Gas Production
Guest “Fracking A, Bubba,” by David Middleton The Haynesville Shale (technically Haynesville/Bossier) in northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana is the third largest natural gas play, in terms of production rate…
Add Helium to the Supply Chain Crisis List
Guest “Everything you never wanted to know about helium” by David Middleton Free-For-All In Helium Market Could Send Prices Sky-HighBy Tom Kool – Mar 30, 2022 The gas that is…
Tipping points in Earths geophysical and biological systems
When a threshold is crossed the physical system responds with positive and negative feedbacks until settling into a new climate state as the perturbation damps out.
Rain Caused Volcano to Erupt… Because Climate Change?
Guest “Did you ever play the telephone game?” by David Middleton Hat tip to Ted… Message: Please find a qualified geologist to take on this nonsense. They cite “the conversation”…
Clear Evidence of a Low Altitude Cometary Air Burst Over the Atacama Desert ca. 12,000 Years Ago
Guest “No, this does not confirm the YDIH,” by David Middleton. Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by ancient exploding cometHeat from a comet exploding just…
The Day the Earth Fell Over
Guest “Klaatu barada nikto” by David Middleton My apologies to Robert Wise, Edmund H. North, Harry Bates, Michael Rennie and the guy who played Gort in the 1951 classic, The…
Mars Perseverance: More Evidence of Ancient Lake/Delta System
Guest ” If it looks like a delta, walks like a delta and quacks like a delta, it might just be… ” by David Middleton It looked like a delta…
The Cretaceous Geology of Alabama and Modern Sea Level Rise…
Guest “How not to connect the present with the past” by David Middleton Alabama’s Return to the SeaA paleontological site shows how life endured in an Alabama that was almost…
The 50th Anniversary of the Genesis Rock
Guest “How about that, geology fans?” by David Middleton 50 Years Ago: Apollo 15 on the Moon at Hadley-Apennine CrewDavid R. Scott, CommanderJames B. Irwin, Lunar Module PilotAlfred M. Worden,…
Younger Dryas Myth-Busting: Flash-Frozen Mammoths Edition
Guest “Pleistocene elephant hunting” by David Middleton “The body of this mammoth was found perfectly preserved in the Siberian tundra with food still in its mouth and stomach indicating that…
The Earth Has a Pulse: 27.5-Million-Year Cycle of Geological Activity Discovered
They found that these global geologic events are generally clustered at 10 different timepoints over the 260 million years, grouped in peaks or pulses of roughly 27.5 million years apart.…
New basalt type discovered beneath the ocean
Its existence was previously not known because no new examples have been formed in millions of years. As a result, the new basalt type lay buried deep beneath sediment at…
Scientists Discover Plate Tectonics… Again
Guest “Did you know?” by David Middleton An upwelling of rock beneath the Atlantic may drive continents apartThe Mid-Atlantic Ridge may play a more active role in plate tectonics than…
Using Milankovitch Cycles to create high-resolution astrochronologies
The remarkable stability of the 405 thousand year cycle, which is modulated by Jupiter and Venus, makes it the Milankovitch Cycle of choice to construct astrochronologies.
The Lakes of Mars
Guest “Let’s light this candle! Part Deux” by David Middleton NEWS 28 SEPTEMBER 2020Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientistsResearchers have detected a group of lakes hidden…
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