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The priest’s half a billion year old bathtub: A sand volcano in Skåne, Sweden

2. September 2023by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

Half a billion years ago, in the early Cambrian, some water, trapped in a sand bottom in a tropical sea, decided it wanted to get out. The water pushed its […]

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Cambrian, Geology photography, Sand, shale and gravel, Sweden, Travel Tips

The Cambrian Explosion, part 4: Oxygen and hard parts

1. April 2023by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

After the Ediacaran and the small shellies; in the Cambrian, oxygen in the sea finally reached a level where gilled animals could breathe efficiently and grow big. This oxygen was […]

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Cambrian, Ediacaran, Fossils, dinosaurs, evolution, Palaeozoic, Precambrian

The Cambrian Explosion, part 3: Small shellies and small skeletons

1. April 2023by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

The first 20-million years of the Cambrian appears to be an empty void between the Ediacarans from the previous post and the well known Cambrians. But pull out the looking […]

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Cambrian, Climate change, Crash'n'bang geology, Ediacaran, Fossils, dinosaurs, evolution

The Cambrian Explosion, part 2: The softies of Ediacara

1. April 2023by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

For a long time, geologists logically set the dawn of the Cambrian at the first fossils, at the trilobites and their friends, which we met in the first post. But […]

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Australia, Cambrian, Climate change, Crash'n'bang geology, Ediacaran, Fossils, dinosaurs, evolution, Precambrian, Science and philosophy

The Cambrian Explosion, part 1: The burghers of Burgess

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Burgher: A privileged city citizen in medieval Europe. And now, for something completely different. (Monty Python) First, there was no life. There were layers of sediment rock; sandstone, shale, limestone, […]

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Cambrian, Ediacaran, Fossils, dinosaurs, evolution, Ordovician, Precambrian, Science and philosophy

Sand, wind and the lighthouse that escaped from the sea: Klitter and klinter at Rubjerg Knude, Denmark

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Denmark is the cosy little country, with klitter, klinter and kanelsnegler – sand ridges, sea cliffs and cinnamon buns. But det søde, bløde land – the sweet, soft country, shrinks […]

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Denmark, Geology and society, Geology in culture and folklore, Glaciers and other cold stuff, Quaternary, Travel Tips

The Værlandet conglomerate, Western Norway: Beautiful gift from an ancient Himalaya

2. September 2020by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

Dear blog, It’s been a while. I know. Stuff has happened. That virus, luckily it has only hit my travels, or caused the lack thereof. And something small, but very […]

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Crash'n'bang geology, Devonian, Mountain Ranges, Norway, Palaeozoic, Sand, shale and gravel, Silurian, Travel Tips, Western Norway

Møns Klint – where Denmark was born

18. December 2019by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

There is something about mighty white cliffs. During World war II, the iconic White Cliffs of Dover was a symbol of freedom, of Britain as the bulwark against the nazi […]

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Cretaceous, Denmark, Geology in culture and folklore, Mesozoic, Travel Tips

What geology can teach us about climate change: On wine, vikings and ice skating (and big, bad volcanoes)

2. December 2019by Karsten Eig 1 Comment

“The medieval warm period” was the time when English kings grew their own wine, and Vikings settled on Greenland. It lasted three centuries from around 950 to 1250, when climate […]

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Climate change, England, Glaciers and other cold stuff, Indonesia, Tips, Volcanoes

What geology can teach us about climate change: The Earth’s drunkard walk between warm and cold

2. December 2019by Karsten Eig 1 Comment

In the previous posts, we looked at how the big theater of plate tectonics has created both ice ages and hot greenhouses on Earth. Now, we will get back to […]

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Climate change, Geology and society, Glaciers and other cold stuff, Quaternary, Tips, Volcanoes

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  • The priest’s half a billion year old bathtub: A sand volcano in Skåne, Sweden
  • The Cambrian Explosion, part 4: Oxygen and hard parts
  • The Cambrian Explosion, part 3: Small shellies and small skeletons
  • The Cambrian Explosion, part 2: The softies of Ediacara
  • The Cambrian Explosion, part 1: The burghers of Burgess

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