ORLY?

Not that I don't want to get all super-excited about martian conglomerates, but Erik Klemeti via twitter (@eruptionsblog) has a good point about alternate interpretations for those rocks.

Volcaniclastics (Tertiary, Utah)

The day to talk like one...

Arrr, to-day is the day for keelhauling and shivering of timbers. So you may need one of these:

Summer 2012

Slomo Saturday: Shooting an Egg.

Here's a little high speed for you. It's also a reminder that even though they're called "Airsoft" BBs, they can still pack a mean punch if they're traveling at a few hundred feet per second.


MCFF0007-Eggshot from Matt Kuchta on Vimeo.

Nibbled by a snail

Went out in the field with students today. We're surveying habitats for land snails and we happened to find a location with lots of large Neohelix albolabris. I picked one up and it started rasping my fingertip with its radula. So that's what it's like to be nibbled by a snail...

Em2 Hacking for Life

Experimentation continues here in the dirt lab. Today I bashed together a cordless drill, 2x4's and a few other bits to create a prototype sediment supply system for the Em2 stream table. Currently it dumps about 27g of sediment per minute, which is a little on the high end of useful.


Em2 Sediment Supply System from Matt Kuchta on Vimeo.



A view inside the Sediment Supply System from Matt Kuchta on Vimeo.