End-of-year meme

The same end-of-year meme that went around last year is back — post the first sentence from the first post of each month — I wondered if doing the same thing as last year was uninteresting but then I couldn’t think of anything else to do, so here it goes:

January 2009: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from a short research cruise on went on a few years ago just off the coast of central California.

Push core samples of deep-marine mud, offshore central California (© 2009 clasticdetritus.com)

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February 2009: I was originally inspired to propose this theme after reading the book Year Million, which is a collection of essays from scientists, technologists, futurists, etc. speculating a million years into the future (most of the essays, not surprisingly, are about the fate of the human species and our civilization).

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March 2009: I am back in the States and very slowly reconnecting myself to the internet. The contrast from little to no connectivity while traveling and doing field work to full connectivity back at home is a bit overwhelming . It may take me a week or so to get back into the swing of things. To get things started, here are some photos from this recent trip. I’ve chosen photos that I think nicely portray what it is like to hike around some of these mountains.

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April 2009: This week’s Friday Field Foto is a close-up view of the Keystone Thrust in southern Nevada.

Keystone Thrust contact, near Valley of Fire, southern Nevada (© 2009 clasticdetritus.com)

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May 2009: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from Kilbourne Hole in southernmost New Mexico — very close to El Paso, Texas. This was my last field trip as a student back in 2007 — see more photos from that trip here.

Cross beds from pyroclastic density currents, Kilbourne Hole maar volcano, New Mexico (© 2009 clasticdetritus.com)

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June 2009: A special volume from GSA (Geological Society of America) titled Earth Science in the Urban Ocean is now available.

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July 2009: I just returned from a trip to Svalbard, which is an island group in the Arctic Ocean about 1000 km from the geographic North Pole.

Braid-delta from the air, Svalbard (© 2009 clastic detritus)

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August 2009: Most of my readers know that I have a passion for submarine geomorphology (e.g., the Sea-Floor Sunday series).

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September 2009: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from some Miocene sedimentary rocks exposed along the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego.

Miocene sedimentary rocks, Tierra del Fuego (© 2009 clasticdetritus.com)

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October 2009: This week’s Friday Field Foto doesn’t highlight any specific sedimentary structure or relationship … I just think it’s pretty :)

Pine Spring Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, west Texas (© 2009 clasticdetritus.com)

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November 2009: I was alerted to this image from a reader and also saw it linked to on geology.com/news and just had to share it.

zoomed-in view of mixing sediment plumes in Gulf of Mexico (image credit: NASA Earth Observatory - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

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December 2009: Earlier this year a reader sent me a photograph of some rocks they had come across asking me what I thought they were or might represent.

Have a nice holiday break and a Happy New Year!