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Geoblogosphere weekly review (48th week of 2010, 1556 weeks ago)

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Posts:

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Sand and ice 1: deep time and the struggles of life

Through the Sandglass [2010-11-24 11:54:27]   recommend this post  (1833 visits)
Catching up on catching up, I finally settled down for an hour or so to attack the pile of journals and magazines that had accumulated during my travels – a forlorn task, since there is always a pile. The

Jersey City Zoning vs Natural Gas Pipeline

Geology.com News [2010-11-26 06:50:10]   recommend this post  (1682 visits)
Jersey City passed a zoning ordinance to ban a proposed natural gas pipeline from crossing the city. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says that a city can not use zoning ordinances to block interstate

Kazakhstan Oil and Gas

Geology.com News [2010-11-22 06:14:16]   recommend this post  (1621 visits)
“Full development of its major oilfields could make Kazakhstan one of the world’s top 5 oil producers within the next decade. With production of 1.54 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2009, Kazakhstan is already a major producer, and [...]

Mystery Rock Found in Waldron Shale Pile

Louisville Area Fossils [2010-11-22 03:12:00]   recommend this post  (1582 visits)
This rock was found in a pile of Silurian Period Waldron Shale next to a busy parking lot.  One side of it has a black layer that attracts a magnet.  [I sometimes test things found with rare earth magnets after watching the Science Channel [...]

The Most Expensive Gemstone: Pink Diamond Sells for $46 Million

Geology.com News [2010-11-26 06:32:24]   recommend this post  (1551 visits)
A 24.78 carat “fancy intense pink” diamond named “The Graff Pink” was sold at auction in Geneva for $46 million. This is the highest price ever paid for a gemstone at

Morphology of a forced regression

Hindered Settling [2010-11-25 07:27:00]   1 recommendations  (1497 visits)
'Forced regression' is an important concept in sequence stratigraphy - it occurs when relative sea level falls and the shoreline shifts in a seaward direction, regardless of how much sediment is delivered to the sea. This is in contrast with [...]

Iceland: Nearly 100% Renewable Energy

Geology.com News [2010-11-23 06:48:21]   recommend this post  (1493 visits)
Almost 100% of the energy consumed in Iceland is produced from renewable sources. This video provides a good summary of how they produce their energy. They used to be big fossil fuel

Youngina, Undergrad Research, and Nick Gardner

The Open Source Paleontologist [2010-11-26 17:25:00]   recommend this post  (1410 visits)
Last week, the online, open access journal Palaeontologia Electronica published a new issue, with a fantastic spectrum of papers. Much discussion has ensued on the blogosphere. For one, PE is unusual among paleontological journals in having its own [...]

Bulusan Volcano, Philippines

Olelog [2010-11-24 21:43:56]   recommend this post  (1280 visits)
One of the most prominent among the active volcanic arcs in the Philippine Mobile Belt is the Bicol Arc, a ~260 km long volcanic arc located in the central-eastern margin of the Philippine Mobile Belt. The Bicol Arc hosts three of the active [...]

The Jaws of Plant Predators

Paleontologia Electronica - blog [2010-11-24 00:32:33]   recommend this post  (1229 visits)
This is a guest post by Thomas M. Fletcher, Christine M. Janis and Emily J. Rayfield from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, authors of Finite Element Analysis of Ungulate Jaws: Can Mode of Digestive Physiology be Determined? [...]
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