30+ Photos That Prove Being A Geologist Is The Best Job In The World

http://www.boredpanda.com/30-photos-that-prove-being-a-geologist-is-the-best-job-in-the-world/

Some nice photos. And, from my experience, not wholly inaccurate.

Is this the first deep soil?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2100364-some-of-the-earliest-plants-took-root-by-growing-up-not-down/

This article discusses a paper describing something which looks like a deep soil but formed before the development of trees.

Implications of Jade Axe Heads, from the Italian Alps, found in Scotland

http://www.nms.ac.uk/explore/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/stone-age-jade-from-the-alps/

Not particularly geological but still fascinating!

Visualisation of Plate Tectonics

http://portal.gplates.org/cesium/?view=rift_v

An up to date video of how the earth has moved since the break up of Pangea. You can change the globe to a map, zoom in and lots of other things. Hours of innocent fun! And have a look at the reference.

Geomythology: Can geologists relate ancient stories of great floods to real events?

https://theconversation.com/geomythology-can-geologists-relate-ancient-stories-of-great-floods-to-real-events-63434?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

This article gives a longer perspective on the previous (or following - it depends how you look at it!) article. And it is very interesting in its own right!

First evidence of legendary China flood may rewrite history

The Jishi Gorge in northwest China's Qinghai Province  CREDIT: QINGLONG WU/NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/first-evidence-of-legendary-china-flood-may-rewrite-history/

Dating a giant landslide in Zion

Isabel Buckingham brought this to my attention. It tells how a vast landslide was dated using a method I had never heard of before. For those of us who have visited Zion it will be particularly fascinating.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36392093