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Video 
2025-06-03 A video short showing geological aspects of the Sterling Zinc Mine
 
Astroblemes of the Great Lakes region
2025-03-05   Structural and geophysical aspects of some known and suspected astroblemes
of the Great Lakes region, North America


2024 Central NJ Earthquake swarm 
2024-08-22 Structural, tectonic and other aspects of the 2024 earthquake swarm in Hunterdon, Morris, and Somerset Counties, New Jersey  


Lunar impact tectogenesis
2024-04-04
 The structure of lunar, multi-ringed astroblemes with tectonic implications for Mars and Earth
 
Ordos Basin 
2023-10-22 The Carboniferous Ordos Astrobleme (~308 Ma) and China's Hydrocarbon Basins 



Earth structure
2023-01-26 Structure of Earth's Mantle Plumes and Core Accretion
  
 

Geodynamo

2022-12-22 A 4-minute video showing the structure of Earth's Geodynamo   


Earth's magnetic field

 2022-10-11 A 4-minute video showing Earth magnetic field and mantle plumes
(
A musical version)

 


2022-05-19 Passive drift, wrinkling crust, and cracking plutons of the New York Recess, USA

 


Nazca site

2022-05-19  Aspects of a Nasca Hillside Ceremony Site
used for 'Moche Toss'

 


Magnetic Vredefort

2022-05-12 The Vredefort astrobleme, mantle plumes, core pipes, and tectonic-plate drift

 


Impact experiment

2021-07-26 Impact experiments using and an air pistol, steel projectile, and 60mm glass balls

 


Toroidal poloidal
2021-10-10
Earth's mantle as an electromagnetic-field component, with implications for geomagnetic reversals  

 


Bad day

2021-06-24 One bad period on Earth about 800,000 B.P.


Alamo astrobleme cross section

2021-02-09 Return to Devil's Gate


Khufu construction machine

2021-01-16 Some physical aspects of the Giza pyramids: Old-Kingdom Science and Engineering


Nasca lines

2020-10-29 The hydrogeological and tectonic nature of the Nazca Lines

2020-11-03 14-minute Nazca-Line video 



Mid-Pacific Mountains

2020-07-12  Old Pacific mayhem; three suspected bolide-impact events of Cretaceous age with global consequences


NAP rotation

2020-02-12 Impact Tectonics; beyond the Craters


Farralon plate geometry

2019-09-11 A 3D SketchUp and Google Earth Model of The Yellowstone Calderas and Farallon Plate


Continental geology by Era

2014-03-05 Earth Continental Geology by Era and Sea-Floor physiography for Google Earth


Big craters

2008-08-25 2 Known and 6 Suspected Large-Bolide Impacts on Earth and Tectonic-Plate Drift


Congo impact

2007-11-05 Plate splitting impact in the Congo Basin, bedrock geology, plate motions, and diamonds


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