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Field Research in Guatemala (4) – Reflections from Fuego 

  Joel Gill (GfGD Founding Director) continues his live reporting from Guatemala, discussing his interdisciplinary field research relating to natural hazard interactions and disaster risk reduction. This [...]

UBC distinguished lecture powerpoint file: Earthquake-induced landslides – lessons from Taiwan, Pakistan, China and New Zealand 

The powerpoint file from my UBC Geological Engineering Distinguished Lecture on Earthquake Induced

ZOOBOOKS: Procoptodon goliah (y megafauna australiana) 

 Bienvenidos a la quinta y última entrega de Zoobooks: los antepasados, serie en la que os mostramos las ilustraciones que ciertos números de esta revista dedican a los animales primitivos. Hoy [...]

Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake Offshore of Northern California 

A moderately large earthquake has been recorded offshore of Northern California, measuring 6.9 on the magnitude scale. It took place about fifty miles offshore of Ferndale, Eureka, and Arcata at 10:18 PM local [...]

Viewing Half Dome from the Great Valley 

Once or twice a year the air clears in the Great Valley. Our valley as great as it is, is a closed basin. The Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges make it hard for air pollution and dust to move out of the region, [...]

Rubén Contreras realiza prácticas de restauración y conservación en la Universidad de Burgos. 

La Universidad de Burgos y la Fundación Dinosaurios de Castilla y León firmaron en 2010 un convenio de colaboración académica, científica y cultural, con los objetivos de “facilitar y fomentar la [...]

Monday paper: Paleosols in the Transantarctic Mountains: indicators of environmental change 

Bockheim, J. G. 2013. Paleosols in the Transantarctic Mountains: indicators of environmental change. Solid Earth 4, 451-459. DOI: 10.5194/se-4-451-2013 Abstract The Transantarctic Mountains (TAMs), a 3500 km [...]

Subtransnema sp. brachiopod from Germany 

Subtransnema sp. brachiopods remind me of Douvillina sp. brachiopods. They both look similar in shape and have thin radial lines on the surface of the pedicle valve. The specimen below is from the Hallert [...]

¿Fue la materia oscura la responsable de la extinción de los dinosaurios? 

A pesar de que ya estamos acostumbrados a sobresaltos, este titular en Nature: Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs?,  parecía, cuando menos, sugerente. Ya nos relamíamos  imaginando un cacho de materia [...]

Beyond a rock… 

It’s not often on BaR that we feature a personal blog, but I can’t live a lie any longer. I am officially Beyond a Rock. Yes, after 3.5 years of blood, sweat and tears (thanks to the piston [...]

Core on Deck 

“Core on Deck!” What a beautiful sound to hear on the ship’s intercom this morning. We have been waiting two weeks for those magic words that [...]

This Week's Geo-Quiz: Volcanoes 

Volcanoes are a favorite of kids, along with large-toothed dinosaurs of course. Most of us move on to smaller and gentler things, but a hardy few men and women persist and become volcanologists. Those people [...]