The following is a list of news items that my intro students decided to write about:
- a shot from left field: limestone statue of King Tut’s grandfather found in Egypt
- an entry about inclusions in diamonds that have implications for plate tectonics was also a bit surprising
- flooding in central Vietnam found favor with a one student
- the impact of melting glacier’s on water supplies in Montana was summarized by a student
- the mystery of Racetrack Playa was chosen by a few students
- a follow-up on how the local flooding is still impacting St. Peter & the surrounding area
- EQs: a 5.9 in Costa Rica on 8. Oct; a 6.3 in Okinawa on 4. Oct; a 6.4 in the Aleutians on 7. Oct; and a 4.0 in San Diego County, California on 6. Oct
- the Chilean miners were a popular topic as the rescue shaft was completed
- an Indonesian landslide due to a monsoon occurred on 6. Oct
- the toxic spill in Hungary was covered by students as well as by several blogs (e.g. Dave’s Landslide Blog) and caused quite a lively discussion on the MSA-listserv (which doesn’t seem to have an archive)
- and someone did find the infamous “Colorado river flowed backwards” article that was tweeted about (e.g. Brian (clasticdetritus) and Kim (stressrelated) had a short back & forth on 4. Oct–anyone know how to reference tweets better?)
- on the borderline of being about geology was the discussion of Obama’s plans to place solar panels on the White House
- news items that fit with the week’s lecture topics (igneous rocks & volcanoes) included: an ancient mud volcano in Indonesia; evidence that a volcanic eruption effected the Neanderthals (also referred to by Erik at Eruptions several weeks ago when the original journal articles were released); the volcanic delta forming in Hawaii (referred to by Brian at Clastic Detritus as well as a number of tweets this week)
- in the “I’m extremely proud of this student” category, two entries about the narrow band of volcanoes over subduction zones that caused a twitter storm as well as an blog post by Erik at Eruptions
Elli Goeke
Each tweet has a unique URL. In the person’s Twitter timeline click on the timestamp of the tweet you want and it’ll go to the webpage of that specific tweet. For example, Brian’s tweet (if this is the one you meant) is here and Kim’s is here.
Click on the time under and to the left of the tweet, and it’ll take you to a page displaying just that tweet. You can then use that URL as a pointer/link. For example…http://twitter.com/#!/ugrandite/status/27250769848
See, I knew if I asked someone would know! Thank you!