Links of the Month - I

I decided to share original topics month by month. I usually keen on metamorphic petrology because of my study area- but not much can be found in blogsphere about metamorphism-. So the good ones:


General Geology

Signs of Primitive Mantle From Canadian Gneiss Dated 4.28 BA http://geology.about.com/b/2010/08/11/signs-of-primitiv-mantle.htm

and paper about this topic from Nature :: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7308/full/nature09287.html

Gondwana Supercontinent Underwent Massive Shift During Cambrian Explosion
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100810163456.htm

Racetrack Playa's Sliding Rocks -* highly recommended *-

http://geology.com/nasa/racetrack-playa/


Structural Geology / Microtectonics

Mountain Beltway's Callan Bentley talks about Purgatory Conglomerate with good photos and sketches- excellent blog by the way (especially for structural geologists )

http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/purgatory-conglomerate/

And Bently's M.Sc. thesis, you can download it HERE::

An Atlas of Pressure Dissolution Features by L. Bruce Railsback

http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/PDFindex1.html

Rocks of Glacier National Park, USA by Callen Bantley

http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/rocks-of-glacier-national-park/

Good animated gif about tension gashes by Callen Bantley again.

http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/tipping-your-tension-gash/

Paleontology

A 48-million-year-old fossilised leaf has revealed the oldest known evidence of a macabre part of nature -- parasites taking control of their hosts to turn them into zombies.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100818105730.htm


Snowball Earth no problem for sponges?*

http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2010/08/snowball-earth-no-problem-for-sponges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=snowball-earth-no-problem-for-sponges

Animals in the Cryogenian? (related with sponge issue)

http://geology.about.com/b/2010/08/18/animals-in-the-cryogenian.htm


Volcanism

Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes

http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2010/08/yellowstone-what-lies-beneath/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yellowstone-what-lies-beneath