by cambrian650mya | Oct 19, 2016 | DNA, granite, pegmatite |
THE LAST ONE PERCENT While it is a deceptively simplistic observation, humans and chimpanzees share about 98.8% of the same DNA ( DNA: Comparing Humans and Chimps ). Now, we can all agree that chimpanzees are pretty cool in their own right, swinging around in trees...
by cambrian650mya | Oct 17, 2016 | Gros Vente, Tetons |
THE SECOND FIDDLE The Gros Ventre Range is an old structure. Originally extending all the way west to what is now the suburbs of Rexburg (a lot closer to here at the time), it was mother nature’s singular object of affection in Teton County and the source material...
by cambrian650mya | Oct 17, 2016 | Earth |
RETHINKING THE STORY OF EARTH It is easy to regard oxygen as an essential gas that constitutes about 21% of our atmosphere. This is .0001% of the whole story. The remaining 99.9999% of the earth’s oxygen is locked up in rocks and minerals. Most of the atoms in the...
by cambrian650mya | Oct 17, 2016 | Permian, Phosphate |
WHY THE PERMIAN STILL MATTERS Permian time is best remembered by the earth science community as an ending. It expired in a desperate fizzle that marks the greatest extinction event known to science (aptly referred to as “the Great Permian Extinction”) and from its...
by cambrian650mya | Oct 17, 2016 | Earth, history |
A NUANCED VIEW nuance |ˈn(y)o͞oˌäns| nouna subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound: the nuances of facial expression and body language. -Apple Dictionary It is an easy thing for many of our friends and members to visualize the geology of the...
