Pokemon Black 2 & White 2: The Comeback

3 new gym leaders has been revealed during the sneek peek of the games. It brings excitement and also some displeased to me to see some of the gym leaders missing in action. 

A patrat in Cheren's team.. What a drag...

Basic badge kicks in and a new badge presumably Homika's gym badge

  

Cheren now give Basic Badge replacing the Archaeologist Lenora.It is comfirmed that he is the first gym leader, which is pretty disappointing to see because he did beat all the gym leaders in Black and White and now having a low level team after 2 years @@ The producer should give him more credit like Blue did, replacing Giovanni as the strongest gym in Kanto. 

Next to see is Homika, the poison type gym leader that knows how to rock the house or her gym with bass guitar.She is the 3rd gym leader specialize in poison type since it debut in Kanto few years back with Koga and Janine. She has a coffing in her team (in the anime). Her father is associated with pokewood, some movie showcase. 

A club that functions as gym

Vs intro

Homika's dad in purple 

Next is another water type gym leader Shizui. It gives me a lot of qualms. I do really hope for a 1st dark type gym leader in this region.

                                                       

It is also stated that N has not been seen since the Unova crisis according to one of the Sage. However, I think that he might have a big role in this games. He still have the dragon pokemon Reshiram/Zekrom with him anyway. That's an important element for either Black Kyurem/White Kyurem to form. Team Plasma is confirmed as the badass villian team and I highly anticipate their motive after the loss 2 years ago. It would be nice to see Ghetsis makes his move and the Sages have more active role in the villianous team.

N in Black 2 & White 2

Then, we have Bianca who become Professor Juniper's assistant giving the main character the starter. It was good choice for her anyway. She was never suitable for pokemon battle. I always thought that she was too feeble to be a pokemon trainer. 

The most intriguing of Black 2 and White 2 is inevitably the World Tournament featuring battles with famous gym leaders, trainers and champion from all the region. I hope the battle format would be similar to the battle Dome in Emerald. That would be wicked cool.This is something that we would not miss. Woah... pokemon games just never stops to amaze the fans.

Kanto's gym leaders

Vs Cynthia

Credit to Serebii and bulbapedia for the pictures

Pokemon Black 2 & White 2: Introduction

              

The latest Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 is set to be release at 23 June 2012 in Japan is a total thrill. I've been fan-love pokemon since i have baby tooth... =) 

This is the first time a generation games has a different timeline as opposed to Emerald or Platinum version that add new feature on the prequel game.

Black 2 and White 2 takes places 2 years after the Unova Crisis with more unfinished business, epic storyline and new characters.

The main pokemon Black Kyurem and White Kyurem serves as the mascot for the new games. New players and new rival appear in the game.

Black Kyurem

White Kyurem

                                                             

Player vs Rival

Unova has changed after 2 years. From the map, we see a new section from south wes. It's called the Aspertia City where the main character starts his/her journey. It has been told that all the gyms and its layeout are changed.

  

                             

It seems that the construction at  Route 4 has completed and a new market place has been set there. The pokemon musical has also been replaced by Pokewood. The Ice encasing on the map is probably just to hide some of the new features. Right next to the entraline in the middle, there seems to be a new airport. =)

I figure the small yellow boat on the south west is our ticket to Castelia City. So far other city like Castelia City, Opeculid City and Anville Town seems to be the same. After two years of drastic change, new pokemon that aren't native to Unova like Mareep, Arcanine, Metagross, Psyduck and etc also appears in the game.

New Market Place

An aquarium or a tunnel 

Credit to Serebii and bulbapedia for the pictures

Earth Science: Thunder Egg

http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blthunderegg.htm

An advanced form of precipitation of minerals inside an encased stone. It is considered as a "solid geode". The minerals are commonly agate, chalcedony (a variation of silica) or calcite. It has an igneous origin.

For igneous origin, it is most likely due to the solidification high viscosity magma from perlite flow ( a volcanic rocks that has 2-5% of water content, Obsidian being less than 2%). The encased magma mix with earth mud and expand as a result of chemical reaction. With space present, minerals grow and precipitate in fully within. Some suggest that when perlite flow is cooled enough to a certain temperature, mud magma layer may shrink allow space for mineral precipitation.

Earth Science: Rip Up Clasts

As the name suggest itself, clastic sediments are being "rip up" from the original depositional basin and being brought to close proximity to the basin. It is an example of intraformational type conglomerate ( if there're more sediments that surrounds the clast and lithify it ) or else it itself can be classified as oligomictic conglomerate (provided that the basin consists of thick layers of a type sediment)

Interesting and Intriguing at the same time...

Mudstone (dark) from a nearby basin being surrounded by coarse sandstone (brown)

Earth Science: Dropstone

A stone embeded in a stratigraphy of rocks. Normally associated with ice rafting during Pleistocene. Ice were abundent at that time and sea level were low. Rocks/debris trapped within the ice escaped when the ice melt and it sanks into the suface (sea floor or rivers). Over times, it is lithified by overburden caused by new layers of sediments.

snowball earth.org

On some occasion, rock debris that are freed from melting may fall directly on sediment layers matrix like silt and clay) forming paraconglomerate rudites.