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See What Your Neighborhood Looked Like Millions of Years Ago

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

A new online tool allows users to scroll through geologic time, using their own location as a pinpoint to orient themselves in the shifting land masses.

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Athena LaTocha Digs Deep into Brooklyn’s Past

by Louis Bury December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

The artist’s wall-size drawing evokes a geologic mood within a neighborhood that has changed in recent decades.

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Join the “League of Lonely Geologists” on a Digital Quest for Strange Rocks

by Allison Meier July 4, 2017August 3, 2021

The League of Lonely Geologists is a game of finding rocks, sharing them with strangers, and hurling them into a mysterious space portal.

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Mapping the Fossils and Meteorite Impacts in London’s Architecture

by Allison Meier July 13, 2016July 15, 2016

The building blocks of urban landscapes are often riddled with fossils, with Jurassic reptile bones and Cretaceous sea creatures sometimes emerging from the stone surfaces.

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The 16th-Century Fossil Book that First Depicted the Pencil

by Allison Meier October 14, 2015October 16, 2015

The first book to illustrate a pencil was published in the 16th century, and its author was more interested in the properties of the lead than the implement itself.

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Mapping Lunar Beauty

by Julia Friedman December 18, 2014August 23, 2021

Maps made by the US Geological Survey offer a vastly different visual depiction of the Earth’s moon, using the full color spectrum to denote differences in topography and geology.

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