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Daily Geology Photos – June 9

Geology News [2013-06-09 18:21:24]   recommend this post  (1796 visits)

A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 48 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos – June 15 Daily Geology Photos – [...]

Weekend CUP for June 11, 2013

GeoPrac.net [2013-06-11 15:35:51]   recommend this post  (1203 visits)

Here are some stories from May (and perhaps earlier) that are still worth a look! President Obama Tours Port of Miami Tunnel Project - Source: Tunnel Business Magazine ISSMGE e-Lexicon Translates Geotechnical Terms - Source: ISSMGE [...]

NCFI Geotechnical Foam, TerraThane, Helps Contractor Save Chicagoland Apartments With Minimal Disruption to Tenants

GeoPrac.net [2013-06-11 15:31:26]   recommend this post  (1195 visits)

MOUNT AIRY, NC—A newly purchased 17-building apartment complex in Rolling Meadows, IL, built in the early 1960s, has seen plenty of tenants make their homes there. When new owners went about making renovations they discovered one 18,000 sq. [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Vanishing lakes and dry Arctic landscapes

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2013-06-10 12:30:23]   recommend this post  (1181 visits)

The Koukdjuak Plains (south-west Baffin Island, Canada) form a vast postglacial marine plain that borders the Foxe Basin, an area that has been progressively uplifted due to glacio-isostatic rebound following the end of the last glaciation about [...]

Sediments, fossils and vistas at the Capo Milazzo Peninsula, Sicily

Wooster Geologists [2013-06-09 19:51:12]   recommend this post  (973 visits)

CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–This was the last day of our International Bryozoology Association pre-conference field trip through Sicily. We had an excellent time and covered an extraordinary amount of territory on this large Mediterranean island. [...]

Using the Existing Pavement In-Place and Achieving Long Life

GeoPrac.net [2013-06-11 08:56:53]   recommend this post  (860 visits)

TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R23 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Using the Existing Pavement In-Place and Achieving Long Life that describes a procedure for [...]

In the News: Illegal Sand Mining in India

Through the Sandglass [2013-06-11 12:42:51]   recommend this post  (755 visits)

Everyone I have talked to who saw even part of the documentary recently shown in Europe expressed a common reaction: surprise. Which was exactly the intention of Denis Delestrac and all of us who were involved: sand as a

Return to the Pliocene at Altavilla Milicia, Sicily

Wooster Geologists [2013-06-09 05:58:22]   recommend this post  (705 visits)

Our last stop of the day on the IBA field trip was to a classic fossil locality on the north coast of Sicily about an hour east of Palermo. These are fine sandstones and marls preserving a diverse array of mollusks from the Pliocene, including the [...]

Back in Colborne Quarry!

GeoSphere [2013-06-10 14:24:26]   recommend this post  (665 visits)

It finally happened! After 10 years of being denied access to one of the all time best fossil collecting spots in North America myself, and a few other lucky geologists were allowed into the quarry with unrestricted access for the day last Thursday! [...]

Wooster’s Fossil (and Mineral) of the Week: Marcasite worm burrows from Bolivia

Wooster Geologists [2013-06-09 07:41:15]   recommend this post  (644 visits)

Here’s a type of fossil I’ve never seen: worm burrow casts made entirely of the mineral marcasite. These come from the George Chambers (’79) gift collection, so we know only that they were found in Bolivia. Despite the lack of [...]