Vinalhaven Island, Maine
The summer deluge of field and labwork continues for me. This weekend, I leave for California yet again, this time to traipse around Lassen Volcanic National Park to find some new samples and to visit...
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Kilauea, Hawaii To round things out, just this last spring I went out to Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii and got to poke some lava flows, along with checking out the ocean entry at the...
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Galaxy Swirl This striking cosmic whirl is the centre of galaxy NGC 524, as seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy is located in the constellation of Pisces, some 90 million...
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Geologic map of the State of Hawai'i [Plate 8: Geologic map of the island of Hawai'i [scale 1:250,000]]
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Flying V This large “flying V” is actually two distinct objects — a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 2184. Both the galaxies are seen almost edge-on in the large, faint northern constellation...
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1835 Map of the city of Detroit in the State of Michigan by John Farmer, District Surveyor." Library of Congress
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1860 Map of Wayne Co., Michigan. "Entered according to Act of Congress by John F. Geil in the Clerk's Office for the District Court of the District of Michigan." Library of Congress
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1889 Birds eye view--showing about three miles square--of the central portion of the city of Detroit, Michigan. Library of Congress
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