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Antimonite Antimonite En blogg om geologi och paleontolgi. Helt på engelska.
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Jobs in Sweden
2008-06-04 13:06:00 Somebody asked me in my last post to describe the job situation for geologists. I can only speak for Sweden , and not very much on that either really. The main reason for not knowing exactly is the simple fact that Im new at geology. Ill know a lot more in 2 years time when Im ...
Meteorite?
2008-06-01 14:22:00 I’ve been saving this rock for a later post. But complications have made it impossible for me to examine the rock up close any time soon. All I have are these older photos below. So I can just write about it now I guess, it wont matter if I wait any longer. It’s (supposedly) not ...
Mars
2008-05-26 19:40:00 With a passion for geology and space exploration, I, like many others these days keep a eye out on everything related to the Phoenix lander. These are exciting days. Got nothing to say that other bloggers havent already said. Except one question perhaps - can smaller rocks become smoothly rounded like the those seen on ...
Dr Indy tells it like it is
2008-05-25 08:00:00 I’ve heard this type of complaint a million times before from a million archaeologists when I studied archaeology back in the days. I think that it is a prime example of professional archaeologists not realizing the great importance of popular culture on the very survival of the field and that archaeology just wouldn’t receive the same ...
The rule of combining and separating words
2008-05-22 09:42:00 I’m certainly no expert in English, and the following text probably breaks a dozen or more rules of the English language, but I do know something about my own Swedish language that many of my Swedish geology professors obviously don’t. I’ve noticed something about people within the natural sciences that I didn’t know before. Something that ... Mer om: Sweden
Candles of Wights
2008-05-17 12:13:00 I have several Belemnites in my collection. They are quite common here in the south of Sweden and most of them date from the Cretaceous deposits (few Jurassic deposits here). Nordic folklore and mythology refered to the Belemnites as “Vätteljus” – Candles of Wights. Wights are some sort of small mythological people or spirits that ...
Neolithical academical territorial issues
2008-05-16 17:27:00 I’m a little bit academically annoyed actually. Annoyed with the field of Palynology. As a fresh student of geology, but a very seasoned student of archaeology I’ve already noticed several topics where the two fields have somewhat different opinions on the same matter. One of those topics is the Neolithic process (the introduction of ...
Tracking the Ice Age
2008-05-14 21:17:00 Today’s excursion took us to see several types of glacial soil deposits like eskers, sandurs tills, talus, tufa and moraines. I must say that the study of glacial soil formations is much more complicated than I’ve imagined. There are just so many types of formations that I’ve never heard of before studying geology. Not to ...
Hello readers
2008-05-14 16:34:00 May I suggest that those interested in my blog add it to a newsreader like for instance Google Reader since I cannot promise to write regularly in this blog. I might write a lot some periods and then nothing at all for long periods. A reader: http://www.google.com/reader/ My feed: http://antimonite.blogsome.com/feed/
The problem of recruitment?
2008-05-10 11:00:00 At the Swedish universities, the departments of geology complains about the trouble of recruiting students. The need and the supply don’t match and you can read about it in the papers some times. And it was also one of the first things our geology teacher spoke about. The reason is said to be that in ...
Soil travels
2008-05-08 17:40:00 Today I was on an excursion around Skåne looking at different bogs and marshes. We drilled soil samples and learned to see the difference between different types of soil, clay, mud and peat. We learned to how to spot the level of humification, acidity and some about the more important fossils of the different stratas. ...
Garnet, Olivine and Iron slag
2008-05-05 16:44:00 Got a new camera. Nothing fancy, a "Canon digital Ixus 950 is". But it had a nice macro-function so i took som new photos just for fun. Picture below is a garnet crystal inside of a amfibolitic rock. Hornblende to be precise. Picked it up on an excursion. Picture below is of a olivine crystal (or a ...
Fennoscandia
2008-05-03 11:12:00 Perhaps I should share some general geological information about my part of the world. Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula was formed geologically from the continent of ”Baltica” which today is called the Baltic Shield or the Fennoscandian Shield. It consists of today’s Sweden, Finland, Norway, Northwestern Russia and parts of the Baltic Sea (not Denmark geologically). ...
Creationism at the universities
2008-04-30 17:09:00 A question. When studying paleontology or just geology in general at universities and colleges in the US, how much room is given to consideration for the feeling of creationists and others who dont believe in evolution or the geological time scale? One easliy gets the impression from media and internet forums that more and more ...
Billebjer
2008-04-28 17:48:00 Today, in the lovely spring weather we have here in the south of Sweden, I took a small trip out to the nature reserve called Billebjer just outside my town of Lund. It’s part of the horst that is called Rommeleaasen, a horst that is part of a greater geological system called Tornqvist zone. Basically ...
Unknown rocks
2008-04-27 18:29:00 I have two pieces of rock which I cannot identify for sure since Im quite new at geology. I would like your opinions of them and what you know or think. I have no instruments at home so the photos is basically what you get. If you aren’t sure, an educated guess is better than ...
The island of Gotland
2008-04-27 10:04:00 Gotland is the largest island in Sweden. It’s a great place to visit for many reasons, not the least for its history and geology. The islands largest town Visby belonged to the German Hanseatic-league during the middle ages (it was a community of traders that controlled most of northern Europe at this time). A town ...
Earth, a big ball of air
2008-04-26 20:27:00 Its quite odd to imagine, but there’s actually a higher ratio of oxygen bound in the minerals of the earth’s crust than there is free in our breathable atmosphere. 46-49% mass in the crust, 21% in the atmosphere in comparison. And that’s not all, the oxygen makes some 93% total volume of all mass on ...
The earth is hollow
2008-04-26 12:10:00 Yes, this movie is probably unfortunally completely serious. A man who actually thinks that, not only is the earth hollow, but there’s a governmental conspiracy to cover up the facts about this and that all students of geology are victims to propaganda. And he’s made an exciting movie that proves it… For example, there are ...
Oil Shale Trilobites
2008-04-26 03:30:00 Todays excursion took us, among many things and places to the oil shale deposits (Sv. Alunskiffer) at Andrarum in the south east of Skåne (Scania) in Sweden. These shales dates from the middle and late Cambrian periods (around 500 Ma) These are my first trilobites ever! They are very small, Agnostus pisiformis, around 0.5 mm ...
An ancient beach
2008-04-25 15:56:00 During the excursion yesterday we visited a place called “the priests bathtub” (Swe. “prästens badkar”). It’s a rocky sandstone beach in the village of of Vik on the east coast of the province of Skåne (Scania) in Sweden. The sandstone is called “Hardeberga sandstone” (or Hardeberga quartzite since most parts of it actually has metamorphosed ...
Death by hammer
2008-04-25 12:03:00 All over the news. An Arizona hiker killed a rabid bobcat (lynx) with his geologist’s hammer. Funny, because just yesterday our professor told a story about a geologist in Sweden several years ago that supposedly killed (in self defense) a raging moose with his hammer. Don’t know if its completly true, but the events today ...
Welcome!
Mer artiklar från denna bloggen:2008-04-23 15:12:00 This is my first post on the blog and I bid you welcome. I hope to use this blog frequently to share with you thoughts on the geosciences with focus on geology. But other topics might arise like the climate, archaeology, politics, religion, philosophy and science fiction. I am a geek of the hominid ... 1-30, 31-60 |
