Passing over in silence

ontogeny — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:55:48 +0000

Windows of style 1

ontogeny — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:19:18 +0000

power

ontogeny — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:44:58 +0000

how is it that people who know little control lots?

Soil memoirs at atticsalt November 09

ontogeny — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:42:12 +0000

Telos (blueprint for a better world).

ontogeny — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:39:14 +0000

2 degrees of freedom?

ontogeny — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:24:19 +0000

Observatory

ontogeny — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:22:04 +0000

The slates are recycled Ballachulish slates, a slate bed that reappears in Skallingen, Greenland. The text is by Martha LaBare and engraved into the slate by laser.

Sikurluk at the Shetland museum and archive

ontogeny — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:16:55 +0000

Shetland words (Telos)

ontogeny — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:20:13 +0000

Get real

Share things

Consume sceptically

Take Friday off…forever

Beware of common sense

Redefine the bottom line

Singing words…

ontogeny — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:18:05 +0000

The rocks of East Greenland and Scotland were part of the same continental block (Laurentia) in the geological past. In fact they share that geological heritage until the the opening og the North Atlantic some 60 million years ago. The map below shows the arrangement of continental blocks about 530 million years ago, Greenland Canadian North America and Scotland were all together as part of Laurentia.The geological links are particul;arly strong around this time with all of East Greenland, Scotland and the Appalachians (with western Scandanavia and Svalbard) part of the what geologists refere to as the Caledonian Mountain Belt. I don’t know of too many slates in East Greenland but they do occur in the far (eastern) part of North Greenland in Skallingen and Kronsprins Christian Land. Is it probably quite resonable to correlate the slaty rocks there with the slates of Lismore and Ballachulish in Argyll in Scotland. Same age, part of the same depositional system on the edge of the same ancient oceran (Iapetus) and the same shared hisory in the subsequent creation of the Caledonian Mountain belt during the Caledonian Orogeny (some 460 -400 million years ago). In both cases though the present lanscape is very much the product of glaciation, current obviuously in Greenland’s case, and as recently as 12000 years ago in Scotlands case.