An Evolving Debate
As discussed in a recent post, fossils help paleontologists unravel earthtime and sort events into their proper order. Along with the other rules and clues we have discussed regarding absolute time and relative age...
Mike Strickler Geologist
Paleontology: How the Earth Makes a Fossil
We’ve spent a couple recent posts discussing geologic time and the two methods earth scientists use to describe and measure it. We started with a general introduction to earthtime and absolute age dating (Intro...
The Warm Blob is Heating Up
This one will be short, but no less important for its brevity. Whether we’re concerned with climate, economics, or social unrest, it seems that many in our country are making a concerted effort to...
Intro to Relative Geologic Time
If you managed to plow through my latest post on Absolute Age Dating (Intro to Geologic Time), you probably muttered something like “This sounds too much like real science to be any fun at...
Intro to Geologic Time
One thing about time is that it keeps moving—always into the future and always in polar opposite, yet mutually supportive rhythms: relative and absolute. Relative time is agreeably flexible and adapts itself to the...
Maybe Not So Extinct After All
This one will be short so I can get back to work, but it was too good to pass up a quick summary. (I am literally weeks away from having all the pieces in...
From the Mouths of Babes…
…or in this case senior citizens. Don’t get me wrong here, or read anything into this post other that the reality that I always appreciate a clever turn of phrase. Please note that this...
Warp Speed Now
The year was 1969, and my buddy and I — a pair of newly-minted high school graduates, full of juice and looking for a bit of excitement — decided to head to the Mojave...
Yes, Virginia, Lead IS Toxic
This is a follow-up to earlier posts regarding the toxicity of lead, and is in response to an 8 July 2025 article on the Associated Press website titled “A Kindergarten in China Added Lead...
Going Up?
There have been a flood of articles over the past couple days with the same overarching message: the climate crisis is irreversible and we have already moved beyond the threshold we’d need to stay...
