Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii

Several years ago, I had the opportunity to visit Pompeii and Vesuvius as part of a tour of the volcanoes of the Tyrrhenian Sea (here). Looking back through these photos, I am still amazed at the level of destruction of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and yet the immense force of destruction also provided […]

The Dawn of Biodiversity in the Serra da Bodoquena-Pantanal area – Brazil

Paulo César Boggiani – Geoscience Institute, São Paulo University see Paulo’s website here   South American cratons and Neoproterozoic  cover and fold belts (after Misi et al. 2007).   One of the most puzzling questions in the geological record is the cause of the major Cambrian diversification of the animals, the so-called “Cambrian Explosion”. Some ideas […]

Robison Bonebed, Idaho with LJ Krumenacker

LJ Krumenacker is a PhD student at Montana State University. LJ’s work was highlighted on several news agency’s. See phys.org’s report here.   The mid-Cretaceous is a time poorly represented in the terrestrial fossil record of North America. While paleontologists are getting a better understanding of this interval in North America, most of this information […]