Bancroft (a preview)
I was hoping to publish a really great set of posts on my recent trip to Bancroft, Ontario (metamorphic petrology galore), but the blogs have been having a few issues with image uploading. So until I...
View ArticleBlown away by Bancroft: Part I
Back in April, I finally had a chance to accompany the petrology classes from UB and SUNY Fredonia on UB's annual trip to Bancroft, Ontario. I've been trying to go on this trip for years, and I'm glad...
View ArticleBlown away by Bancroft: Part II
On the second day of our Bancroft trip, we started out in the greenschist facies and moved on into the amphibolite facies of the metamorphic pressure-temperature diagram. And, of course, took lots of...
View ArticleBlown away by Bancroft: Part III
On the second afternoon of our trip, we finally began moving out of the greenschist facies into the amphibolite facies - higher pressures, higher temperatures and a different set of minerals.
View ArticleBlown away by Bancroft: Part IV
On the last morning of our Bancroft field trip this past April, we continued our journey through the metamorphic faces diagram with a stop at an outcrop north of Bancroft on ON-28, in the amphibolite...
View ArticleMultiple landslide impacts worldwide in the last few days
An update on catastrophic landslide events in the last few days in India, Uganda, Bangladesh and Canada
View ArticleAn interesting landslide in Manitoba, Canada
A brief report on a landslide this week that has blocked Highway 83 in Manitoba, Canada
View ArticleA (probably) fatal landslide in Johnsons Landing, Kootenay Lake, BC Canada...
An initial report and images on a landslide in Johnsons Landing, BC yesterday that is thought to have killed four people
View ArticleA dramatic video of a secondary failure of the Johnsons Landing landslide in...
A dramatic video has been released of a secondary landslide at Johnson Creek in Canada
View ArticleStunning images of four recent landslides
Remarkable video and photographic imagery has emerged this weekend of the aftermath of landslides in Alaska, Canada and Japan
View ArticleA weekend of landslide incidents
This weekend there were many landslide incidents around the world. This blog post highlights nine of them, in the UK, Austria, Canada, Mexico, India and China
View ArticleNiagara terroir
No, nothing to do with the thrill of going over the Falls in a barrel, or anything like that. I'm talking about terroir - the combination of geography, geology and climate that contributes to a...
View ArticleAn update on the Johnsons Landing landslide in Canada
The Johnsons Landing landslide in BC, Canada back in July killed four people and was the subject of some remarkable video footage. An investigation is now underway of the future stability of the site;...
View ArticleField trip etiquette
I just spent three days on another great field trip to Bancroft, Ontario, and while I will post photos of the fabulous structural features we were observing, I thought I'd also put down some thoughts...
View ArticleBenchmarking Time: Devil’s Coulee dinosaur egg site, Southern Alberta
This week's benchmark is a unique one - not your usual NGS fare! It comes to you courtesy of Howard Allen, who says: This is a quarry marker that the Royal Tyrrell Museum cements in place at their...
View ArticleImages of a railway landslide in the Canadian Rockies
Some images of a spectacular rockslide in western Canada that blocked the CN mainline last month
View ArticleAn unusual quarry landslide in Canada yesterday
A somewhat unusual quarry landslide occurred yesterday at the Maskimo Quarry in L’Epiphanie in Quebec, Canada. Montreal CTV News has a good aerial image of the site and the landslide: On initial...
View ArticleA round-up of recent landslide incidents, including two American children...
News of landslides from the USA, Canada and Hong Kong, and about the role of landslides in the Day of Judgement
View ArticleHistoric earthquake-triggered landslides in Canada
A new paper, Brooks (2013), has investigated a huge quick clay landslide in Canada. It concludes that it formed about 1100 years ago in response to an earthquake
View ArticleUBC distinguished lecture powerpoint file: Earthquake-induced landslides –...
The powerpoint file from my UBC Geological Engineering Distinguished Lecture on Earthquake Induced Landslides
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