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Timan-Pechora
Aeromagnetic map, digitized for Gibson Consulting from published Soviet maps. For a sense of scale, the distance along the coastline (the edge of data) from the Timan Suture to the thin black line is about 400 miles (650 km). Life in the USA is not normal. It feels pointless and trivial to be talking about small looks at the fascinating natural world when the country is being dismantled. But these posts will continue, as a statement of resistance. I hope you continue to enjoy and learn from them. Stand Up For Science! This is part of the magnetic map of the former Soviet Union. It reveals thre
May 13, 2026
Thomsonite
Life in the USA is not normal. It feels pointless and trivial to be talking about small looks at the fascinating natural world when the country is being dismantled. But these posts will continue, as a statement of resistance. I hope you continue to enjoy and learn from them. Stand Up For Science! “I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” —Attributed to Isaa
May 11, 2026
Belemnites
Life in the USA is not normal. It feels pointless and trivial to be talking about small looks at the fascinating natural world when the country is being dismantled. But these posts will continue, as a statement of resistance. I hope you continue to enjoy and learn from them. Stand Up For Science! This is a cross-section view of a belemnite, an extinct squid-like cephalopod. Actually this isn’t the whole animal by any means – it’s just the most commonly preserved part, an internal structure called a guard (or rostrum, from Latin for beak ) that probably served as a counterbalance for the animal
May 8, 2026