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Friday, 06 December 2013
Two new Early Cretaceous ankylosaurs
Both in open access journals:Taohelong jinchengensis n.g. n.sp. Yang et al., 2013A polacanthine known from partial postcrania (caudal vertebrae, dorsal ribs, left ilium, and armor plates). The authors provide what I believe is the first phylogenetic definition of the Polacanthinae (clade containing Polacanthus but not Ankylosaurus or Panoplosaurus) and their phylogenetic analysis places Taohelong as the sister to Polacanthus. Unfortunately, the article is in Chinese, so other details [...]Daily Geology Photos – December 6
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 27 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos – December 2 Daily Geology Photos – December 3 Daily Geology Photos – December 4 Daily Geology Photos – December 5 Daily Geology Photos –The cheap seismic plan for Toronto
IRI@AGU: Schedule of Events + Q&As
Four scientists and one PhD student from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society are attending the 2013 American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. Below are links to Q&As with each of [...]Bringing a Magmatic System Back to Life: My Research at Lassen Peak and Chaos Crags
So, I’m off to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco meeting tomorrow. This year, I will be presenting on my continuing research in the Lassen Volcanic Center (LVC) in northern [...]Everything you never wanted to know about Japanese pensions and never thought to ask.
So, this is going to be a long and boring post which delves into one of the reasons why we wanted to keep up our permanent residency (though not the only one). But I’ll start with the tl;dr summary for any [...]The Geological Society of America and its Founders – Samuel Gardner Williams
Samuel Gardner Williams Active Founder (Sources: Anonymous, 1900, 1924; Fairchild, 1932). Personal. Samuel Gardner Williams was born near West Winfield in Herkimer County, New York, on August 15, 1827, and [...]Windstorm Xaver Hits Western Europe
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Windstorm Xaver struck the coastal countries of western Europe on Thursday with gale force winds and intense rain. Thousands of people were evacuated from coastal towns and cities in the UK. Wind gusts of more [...]
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Alberta Shale Resources
The Alberta Geological Survey has published Summary of Alberta’s Shale- and Siltstone-Hosted Hydrocarbon Resource Potential. This is a 339-page publication with lots of maps, data and descriptive [...]How Wetlands Respond to Sea Level Rise
“Thanks to an intricate system of feedbacks, wetlands are remarkably good at building up soils to outpace sea level rise.” Quoted from the National Science Foundation press release. Related: [...]UAE Oil and Natural Gas Report
“The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the 10 largest oil and natural gas producers in the world, and is a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the Gas Exporting [...]OpenWeatherMap – global weather and forecast data for free (with API)
It’s snowing here in Berlin. And I already thought, that we wouldn’t have any white color out there before Christmas Eve. In order to check the weather forecast for the next days, I found [...]Jurassic World: ¿Qué sabemos hasta ahora?
Este año ha sido importante para los fans de la saga Jurásica que comenzó en 1993 con el estreno de "Parque Jurásico". No sólo hemos podido disfrutar de la película original reconvertida a 3D [...]Theories of Extinction
Ada masa berbintang ada masa mendung kelabu.
Di usia setengah baya begini seringkali mengamati teman-teman yang dulu sering bersama main sepakbola, main benteng, main tembak-tembakan hingga teman belajar bersama, teman sekelas ataupun satu sekolahan. [...]Early Triassic Moenkopi/Thaynes - Ammonoid Biostratigraphy, Correlation and Paleogeography
POTD December 6, 2013: “Devils Pole” near Joes Valley Reservoir, Emery County, Utah
“Devils Pole” near Joes Valley Reservoir, Emery County, Utah Photographer: J. Buck Ehler Frozen waterfall forms “Devils Pole” near Joes Valley Reservoir, EmeryRising Seas Pose a Growing Threat to Coastlines, Regardless of Changing Hurricane Dynamics
The jury is still out on how tropical storms will change as climate warms, but rising sea levels will almost certainly place more coastal property at risk of flooding, says a team of scientists writing in the [...]AGU 2013: Key Events From the Earth Institute
Scientists from Columbia University’s Earth Institute will present important research results and special events at the Dec. 9-13 San Francisco meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the world’s [...]Golly ned, that’s a big Cairn
My pal Dave Tucker sent me this great shot of a new ... [ continueOklahoma earthquake M3.0 - somewhat isolated
Friday fold: Turtle Mountain and the Frank Slide
The Friday fold can be found this week at Turtle Mountain, Alberta, where it triggered a massiveVancouver seismic plan related to Toronto
Reference So, the big mistake at the beginning turned me off, but my good buddy Wayne encouraged me to look at it again. I found some good stuff. Now I know this plan, written by unpaid interns, probably [...]Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [13:57:12]
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Lots of researchers post PDFs of their own papers on their own web-sites. It’s always been so, because even though technically it’s in breach of the copyright transfer agreements that we blithely [...]
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The Saturn Hexagon?
“NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn’s north pole. This is the first hexagon movie of [...]Water Discovered on Five Planets
“Two teams of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant exoplanets. The planets are not the size of Earth, but rather massive [...]The Oldest Human DNA
Scientists have recovered DNA from a fossil human who lived about 400,000 years ago. The oldest DNA before this specimen was about 300,000Seeking young scientists! A great opportunity to get involved in the EGU
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Young scientists make up a significant proportion of the EGU membership and it’s important to us that your voices get heard. One way to do this is by getting in touch with your division’s young scientist [...]
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(10 visits) Door six: (Penny) Dreadful Fellows
In the past three or so years as Archivist to the Society, a good proportion of the enquiries I receive concern the major figures of geology and science. You know, those upright, moral Fellows who have made [...]A failure in communicating the impact of new findings
I was disappointed by the recent summary for policymakers (SPM) of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) assessment report 5, now that I finally got around to read it. Not so much because of the [...]Tortugas mesozoicas españolas en la 55 Sesión Científica de la Sociedad Geológica de España
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Where the Sierra Nevada Rises From the Sea: Half Moon Bay
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For a mere $80,000 you can buy your own mining town in Arizona. Here is the description from the selling website: Holabird-Kagin Americana offers an intact miniature western mining camp, now located in [...]facilty advice
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