Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Long View: Half a Billion Years in the County

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 The view from State Street in Presque Isle This August I spent a week in mythic Aroostook County.  Throughout my week there I navig...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Skipping Stones at Kettle Cove

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An assortment of stones at Kettle Cove,  including white quartz and gray phyllite  Chasing my fifteen month old son at Kettle Cove beac...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Tipping the Clown: Changing Density in the Deer Isle Granite

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When I was young I had an inflatable clown with weights on the bottom, so you could administer whatever childhood battering you cared to, a...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Salt of the Earth: The Source of Sodium and Chlorine in Our Oceans

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As an adult, I sometimes forget to ask the obvious questions.  Kids, though, they have their heads on straight.  Living near the coast, I ha...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Groundtruth: Finding Annual Moraines in My Backyard

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An annual glacial moraine. Twenty-one thousand years ago glaciers covered the northern part of the globe.  Their end point in New Englan...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Besting Goliath: The Formation of the Pawtuckaway Ring Dike

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The Massabesic Gneiss looks like ice cream swirled with fudge because of heat and pressure from 500 million years on the surface It...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Reunion on Old Orchard Beach

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I hadn't taken into account that water has a way of exploiting a weak point.  On geologic maps, a black line with arrows on one side su...