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The Anthropocene Unconformity

Coal Harbour, Vancouver It has been suggested that our current time interval is different from all the times that preceded it, that human activities are dramatically affecting the  Earth’s environment,...

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Seal Cove Beach

Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick: July, 2015 Walking on the seashore, I am often struck by the diversity that can exist in a very small area. Certainly you can observe a range of features and life...

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Jelly Bloom at North Head

Grand Manan Island: July 12, 2015 Mid-July, and there were a tremendous localized bloom of jellies in the harbour at North Head.  It didn’t seem to extend very far outside the harbour at that time (it...

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An Embarrassment of Riches

World Water Day, 2016 From a helicopter, the tundra ponds in Manitoba’s Hudson Bay Lowlands are countless. As World Water Day draws to  a close, here are a few images illustrating a fraction of...

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Periwinkles on a basaltic boulder Those of us who study the ecology of long-extinct marine creatures have to work from clues: the morphologies of the fossilized organisms, the character of the...

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Meditation at 20,000 Feet

The following is lightly edited from notes written last week, as I travelled westward on a flight from Fredericton to Toronto. Across northern Maine and southern Québec, those ever-changing landforms...

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Leaving the Sea Behind

La Pocatière, Québec: August, 2018 On any trip to the coast, there will always come that day when we must leave the sea behind us, catching the last glimmer of blue water in the rearview mirror as we...

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Ghost Streams on the Shore

Saint Andrews, New Brunswick: August, 2018 Beds of the Perry Formation in Pottery Cove, Saint Andrews, New Brunswick. Rocks are physical ghosts. If a ghost is a disembodied spirit or a nebulous image...

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The Bones of the Earth

Rivière-du-Loup, Québec: August, 2018 This summer, while walking on the shore at Rivière-du-Loup, I was struck by the way in which the spectacular steeply-dipping sedimentary beds “dive” and become...

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A Return to Sloop Cove

Sloop Cove, Churchill, Manitoba: August, 2015 Some years ago, I wrote a post that included images of some of the 18th century graffiti at Sloop Cove, which is on the west shore of the Churchill River...

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