Comments on: Accretionary Wedge Call for Posts

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:12:28 +0000

Since the link finder seems to have failed:

Debunking the diamond-coal connection:
http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com/2008/01/diamonds-are-not-squished-coal.html

And, an oldie but goodie:
http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com/2007/03/mantle-melting.html

By: Callan Bentley

Callan Bentley — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:03:02 +0000

Here’s my contribution: http://nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/geoblog/2008/01/sweet-stuff.html
…a series of baked-good analogies that I use in teaching geology.

By: Tuff Cookie

Tuff Cookie — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:39:13 +0000

I submit two slightly different examples of Hot, gooey fillings (or misconceptions thereof) as my offering.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:26:18 +0000

Dinosaurological Misconceptions for your accretionary pleasure…

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:44:12 +0000

With your sublime internet brain automatically find the back link?

By: Garry Hayes

Garry Hayes — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:33:08 +0000

First time around the geology blogs, sorry if this is a repeat post, having “issues”…

Every semester I start a section on earthquakes with my students offering their assumptions and misconceptions about earthquakes. Some of the most popular:

1. California will fall into the sea

2. California has the largest earthquakes in the world

3. California has the most earthquakes of anywhere in the world

4. The ground opens up and swallows people

5. Psychics predict earthquakes

6. Animals predict earthquakes

7. We are waiting for THE BIG ONE!

8. The safest place in an earthquake is a doorway

9. All California quakes happen on the San Andreas fault

Since there is at least a (very) small element of truth in a (very) few of some of these, it leads to a good discussion on earthquakes.