Johannes Lochmann

The Periodic Table of Tech

2012-10-27T01:08:00.003-07:00

Neat, many (most?) are from geologic resources: The periodic table of tech.

When continental drift was considered pseudoscience

2012-06-05T13:03:00.000-07:00

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/When-Continental-Drift-Was-Considered-Pseudoscience.html

2012-05-24T22:51:00.002-07:00

Map Projections

Structural Geology: Thursday video: Difference between crust and lithosphere

2012-05-24T22:40:00.001-07:00

Structural Geology: Thursday video: Difference between crust and lithosphere

Hat Tip: www.structuralgeology.org

School Meals. BUARGH.

2012-05-24T10:54:00.003-07:00

And now for something completely different: School Meals. Blargh. How *DARE* they?!

Italy Earthquake Update

2012-05-24T09:32:00.001-07:00

news.discovery.com

Earthquake in Italy - Richter 5.9

2012-05-20T00:19:00.002-07:00

Felt the earthquake tonight. Richter 5.9. (sorry, no english source, yet): ZAMG

2012-05-19T03:50:00.001-07:00

Italy is going to drill a super vulkano!

Amphibol: Video über die Bewegung der Kontinente

2012-05-08T03:38:00.001-07:00

Amphibol: Video über die Bewegung der Kontinente

What Geology Is Good For [tm]

2011-03-13T03:53:00.000-07:00

What Geology Is Good For [tm]

On Tour

2011-03-11T09:21:00.001-08:00

http://katyandstevoontour.blogspot.com/

MIT Open Course Ware

2010-09-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

Channel earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences: Link. Youtube channel: Link.

Feynman Chaser - The Key to Science

2010-03-10T23:21:00.000-08:00

Addition to blogroll

2010-02-28T03:37:00.001-08:00

Phreatic Ramblings is around since 2008.

landslide in Maierato (Calabria, Italy)

2010-02-17T11:45:00.000-08:00

Update: Maierato is of course in Calabria. Sorry for that.

Video www.youreporter.it

Thin Sections from Top Bellerophon

2010-02-15T22:00:00.001-08:00

Sorry for the hiatus,

but here are the good news:

I have thin sections from some very interesting beds from the top Bellerophon Fmt. directly below the contact with the Werfen Fmt. (That would be directly at the P/T boundary). There are some very interesting sedimentary features where it is currently not clear if they are roots or bioturbation by some sorts of animals. I will prepare pretty pictures (as far as carbonates can be pretty). There are also some very small fragments of fossils: one gastropod and small shell fragments (Any hints for papers for gastropod identification in the Bellerophon Fmt. most welcome. No, it is not Bellerophonella).

I have found a new home for ProfileLogger: profilelogger.berlios.de. Not much to see, yet, but if anyone is interested in screen shots (or even contributing code, documentation, fossil patterns, lithology patterns, translations, etc.) - go have a look or drop me an email.

cancelling my sourceforge account

2010-02-08T07:05:00.001-08:00

Just a short notice:

I am cancelling my sourceforge.net account because of the ridiculous restrictions applied to software exports by US laws. I am based in Italy and have to obey local laws and I feel that software I write should be freely available to anybode.

But I see no reason, why I should be prohibited from linking against cryptographic libraries (as, for example, in many database client libraries) so that everyone can use software I write. Especially because I see no connection between a software to log and draw the content of a lithological column and war. It. Just. Does. Not. Apply.

ProfileLogger will find a new home.

Way cool marriage preview :)

2010-02-05T08:05:00.001-08:00

Marvellous!

2009-12-29T05:54:00.000-08:00

Drawing Profiles reloaded - software in the making!

2009-12-20T11:47:00.000-08:00

Since I could not find anything suitable for free to draw geological columns I did what every hacker [tm] does: I scratched my itch and hacked together a software in C++ with Qt as the GUI toolkit. A first prototype is up and running, I am currently entering data from the field documentation. The software draws a geological column containing:

Height

Bed number

Grain sizes (carbonate and clastic)

Lithology

Color

Bedding type

Sediment structures

Fossil symbols

Custom symbols

boundary types

Notes in plain text.

All but grain sizes is fully customizeable. I am having some trouble in exporting to SVG, PDF or a bitmap format, though - but this will be solved soon.

If this sounds interesting to anybody I could provide binary builds vor Mac OS X. Builds for Microsoft Windows and of course Linux should be also feasable. If this sounds interesting to you just drop me a mail at johannes.lochmann@gmail.com

Hero of the day!

2009-12-16T04:22:00.000-08:00

Hat tip: Amphibol.

ARGH! §$%=! Illustrator!

2009-12-04T09:07:00.000-08:00

ARGH! Adobe Illustrator keeps crashing and crashing again... From this perspective it is the worst software product I have used in years. And I have used many of them... I'm thinking of abandoning it for my profile drawing problem... And I am about to hack a program myself...

Drawing Profiles continued - public templates...

2009-11-30T02:07:00.001-08:00

I have put some templates for profiles with adobe illustrator and reports and presentations in LaTeX on my shiny new homepage.

Religion is the source of morality. My Gosh.

2009-11-25T01:38:00.000-08:00

Lithology Patterns for Illustrator from USGS

2009-11-20T09:48:00.000-08:00

Following up on my previous post... It seems, that at least part of the USGS is doing profiles with Adobe Illustrator... There are heaps of symbols available at the USGS website ready to be used as palette. Way cool!