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Mercury rising

Geological Society of London blog [2013-04-25 12:25:19]   recommend this post  (946 visits)

Minamata has become a word synonymous with disease. ‘Minamata disease’ was first identified in 1956, after years of chemical company Chisso discharging methyl mercury into Minamata Bay, Japan. It was a process that continued until 1968, and left [...]

Frog Face Revisited

The Bite Stuff [2013-04-24 10:09:03]   recommend this post  (839 visits)

Lest my readers think I’ve become dull, an upcoming post will have this in it, and an explanation. You will have to further pardon me while I make my next few posts NOT about this. Feel free to offer commentary … Continue reading

Amazing aerial photos of the Bingham Canyon Landslide

GeoPrac.net [2013-04-22 00:53:27]   recommend this post  (836 visits)

There is a great collection of aerial photos and other photos from last week's Bingham Canyon Mine Landslide at Kennecott Utah Copper's Flickr Photostream. Thanks to my colleague Wolfgang Knudson at Golder for sending the link. There's a great [...]

Is the Bingham Canyon copper mine landslide the most expensive single mass movement in history?

GeoPrac.net [2013-04-22 00:53:54]   recommend this post  (820 visits)

Dr. Dave has some financial analysis of the Bingham Canyon Mine Landslide in Utah. His interpretation of some of the financial data being thrown around is a financial loss of $770M, ouch! [Source: Read the full post at The Landslide Blog. Image: The [...]

Life during jurassic, cretaceous,…miocene more at:...

geo-ebooks [2013-04-23 23:21:46]   recommend this post  (779 visits)

Life during jurassic, cretaceous,…miocene more at:

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Capitol Reef - In Snow!

Earthly Musings [2013-04-23 04:05:00]   recommend this post  (772 visits)

During the week of April 15 to 19, I led a group of seven explorers to southeast Utah and the stunning landscapes of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The first half of the week saw the arrival of winter storm Yogi. We were "encamped" in [...]

An Oviraptorosaur Worth the Name?

The Bite Stuff [2013-04-25 10:15:19]   recommend this post  (753 visits)

The newest oviraptorosaur on the blog is, in fact, one of the oldest. Nick Longrich and colleagues (Ken Barnes, along with Scott Clark and Larry Millar from Paleo Field Excursions, who collect in the Big Bend area in which the … Continue [...]

Around the web 4/21/2013 — Evolutionary evangelism, pink unicorns, and the man who sang before 200 million people

The GeoChristian [2013-04-22 01:48:07]   recommend this post  (739 visits)

I’D RATHER TALK ABOUT JESUS – Theologian and apologist C. Michael Patton made an important discovery about the “what about evolution?” question back when he was still a young-Earth creationist. Rather than trying to convince [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A pentamerid brachiopod from the Lower Silurian of New York

Wooster Geologists [2013-04-21 07:19:15]   recommend this post  (706 visits)

Another brachiopod this week. This simple fossil is an internal mold of the brachiopod Pentamerus oblongus (J. de C. Sowerby, 1839). It was a very common and widespread taxon throughout North America and Europe in the Early Silurian. This particular [...]

The PAGES-2k synthesis

Real Climate [2013-04-21 00:30:49]   recommend this post  (683 visits)

Guest commentary by Darrell Kaufman (N. Arizona U.) In a major step forward in proxy data synthesis, the PAst Global Changes (PAGES) 2k Consortium has just a suite of continental scale reconstructions of temperature for the past two millennia in [...]