http://antimonite.blogsome.com A blog about geology, geoscience, paleontology and related topics Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:32:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Question: Is that pyrite crystals in this piece of oil shale? I picked it up on the beach on my last trip. Or is it some strange fossil? Whatever it is, why/how/when do they form like this in the shale?   http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/07/22/whats-that-in-my-shale/ Yesterday I was on a fieldtrip to the south eastern regions of Scania (which is the most southern Province of Sweden, where I live). It took me among many things to a very small village by the ocean called Simrislund. This place is interesting geological-wise since its one of few ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/07/22/cambrian-bronzeage/ Ive just started a new blog. A Swedish blog on geoscience. A sister to this blog basically. So if you dont speak Swedish, you probably couldnt care less. I will probably update the Swedish blog more often also. But this blog (Antimonite) will remain and I will write posts on ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/07/11/terra-incognita/ Someone googled to my summerdorment geology blog with the frase "do swedish people get sick a lot". This sparked my attention and gave me a topic related to the enviroment. The short answer to the question is: No we dont. We have one of the most healthy populations in the world ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/07/09/bad-air/ I constantly read/hear about Americans trubled/angry with their gasoline priceses (yes people do the same here in Sweden as well). I even hear about people depending on driving for a life now seeing their trucking/driving business going down because of higher prices on gasoline. The American price on gasoline is ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/07/03/expensive-lifestyles-depends-on-cheap-oil/ The future, if the prices on oil keeps on rising in the world. (Click the thumb for full size)   http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/29/the-future/ Im going to get political. Hardcore. Not much to say on geology these days. Hopefully I will have more on geology in a few days time - but in general its going to take most of the summer before the geology picks up here again. Its all connected to the ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/26/the-fall-of-freedom-in-europe/ Happy midsummer everyone!     Say what? Well, in Sweden we celebrate a holiday called Midsummer - and its probably the most celebrated holiday here - larger than Christmas in popularity almost. It roughly co-exist with the summer solstice - but is not exactly a celebration of just the solstice. The roots of ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/19/happy-midsummer/ An eggshaped meteorite was recently found in Sweden (in the small village of Kitkiöjärvi in the very north of Sweden) Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports (via SR.se). The largest found in Sweden to date and one of the largest found in Europe. Weighing 1185 kilos, around 2600 pounds. The two ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/13/the-meteorite-from-kitkiojarvi/ In my collection of “things and stuff” I got one really nice object that usually makes people envious. It’s a shaft hole axe from Uppland in Sweden. It was my grandfather who in his youth found it on a field. The archaeological dating sets this axe to the middle or ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/12/my-preciousss/ The "missing - walking - link" between primates and homonoids is mathematically solved according to National Geographic. If you (the primate that is) stand on two legs when foraging for foods in higher bushes, its more energy efficient to remain on two legs and walk the distance to the next ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/12/walking-calculations/ Extremophilic life on mars. The hypothetical one that is of course. Would that be life based on extremly cold or warm conditions you think? Is there any active geological hot spots on Mars at all? http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/12/mars-2/ Nature has a message for us.   Source  http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/07/nature/ Somebody asked me in my last post to describe the job situation for geologists. I can only speak for Sweden, and not very much on that either really. The main reason for not knowing exactly is the simple fact that Im new at geology. Ill know a lot more in ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/04/jobs-in-sweden/ I’ve been saving this rock for a later post. But complications have made it impossible for me to examine the rock up close any time soon. All I have are these older photos below. So I can just write about it now I guess, it wont matter if I wait ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/06/01/meteorite/ With a passion for geology and space exploration, I, like many others these days keep a eye out on everything related to the Phoenix lander. These are exciting days. Got nothing to say that other bloggers havent already said. Except one question perhaps - can smaller rocks become smoothly rounded ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/26/mars/ I’ve heard this type of complaint a million times before from a million archaeologists when I studied archaeology back in the days.  I think that it is a prime example of professional archaeologists not realizing the great importance of popular culture on the very survival of the field and that archaeology ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/25/dr-indy-tells-it-like-it-is/ I’m certainly no expert in English, and the following text probably breaks a dozen or more rules of the English language, but I do know something about my own Swedish language that many of my Swedish geology professors obviously don’t. I’ve noticed something about people within the natural sciences that I ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/22/swedish-language-in-the-natural-sciences/ I have several Belemnites in my collection. They are quite common here in the south of Sweden and most of them date from the Cretaceous deposits (few Jurassic deposits here). Nordic folklore and mythology refered to the Belemnites as “Vätteljus” – Candles of Wights. Wights are some sort of small ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/17/candles-of-wights/ I’m a little bit academically annoyed actually. Annoyed with the field of Palynology. As a fresh student of geology, but a very seasoned student of archaeology I’ve already noticed several topics where the two fields have somewhat different opinions on the same matter. One of those topics is the ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/16/neolithical-issues/ Today’s excursion took us to see several types of glacial soil deposits like eskers, sandurs tills, talus, tufa and moraines. I must say that the study of glacial soil formations is much more complicated than I’ve imagined. There are just so many types of formations that I’ve never heard of ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/tracking-the-ice-age/ May I suggest that those interested in my blog add it to a newsreader like for instance Google Reader since I cannot promise to write regularly in this blog. I might write a lot some periods and then nothing at all for long periods. A reader: http://www.google.com/reader/ My feed: http://antimonite.blogsome.com/feed/  http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/hello-readers/ At the Swedish universities, the departments of geology complains about the trouble of recruiting students.  The need and the supply don’t match and you can read about it in the papers some times. And it was also one of the first things our geology teacher spoke about. The reason is ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/10/the-problem-of-recruitment/ Today I was on an excursion around Skåne looking at different bogs and marshes. We drilled soil samples and learned to see the difference between different types of soil, clay, mud and peat. We learned to how to spot the level of humification, acidity and some about the more important ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/soil-travels/ Got a new camera. Nothing fancy, a "Canon digital Ixus 950 is". But it had a nice macro-function so i took som new photos just for fun. Picture below is a garnet crystal inside of a amfibolitic rock. Hornblende to be precise. Picked it up on an excursion.   Picture below is of ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/05/garnet-olivine-and-iron-slag/ Perhaps I should share some general geological information about my part of the world. Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula was formed geologically from the continent of ”Baltica” which today is called the Baltic Shield or the Fennoscandian Shield. It consists of today’s Sweden, Finland, Norway, Northwestern Russia and parts of the ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/05/03/fennoscandia/ A question. When studying paleontology or just geology in general at universities and colleges in the US, how much room is given to consideration for the feeling of creationists and others who dont believe in evolution or the geological time scale? One easliy gets the impression from media and internet ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/04/30/creationism-at-the-universities/ Today, in the lovely spring weather we have here in the south of Sweden, I took a small trip out to the nature reserve called Billebjer just outside my town of Lund. It’s part of the horst that is called Rommeleaasen, a horst that is part of a greater geological ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/04/28/billebjer/ I have two pieces of rock which I cannot identify for sure since Im quite new at geology. I would like your opinions of them and what you know or think. I have no instruments at home so the photos is basically what you get. If you aren’t sure, an ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/04/27/unknown-rocks/ Gotland is the largest island in Sweden. It’s a great place to visit for many reasons, not the least for its history and geology. The islands largest town Visby belonged to the German Hanseatic-league during the middle ages (it was a community of traders that controlled most of northern Europe ... http://antimonite.blogsome.com/2008/04/27/the-island-of-gotland/