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The Watershed Hydrology lab will be out in force for the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Vancouver in October. For the last few days, we’ve been sharing the abstracts of the work we are presenting there. AFTER THE DAM COMES [...]
Continuing a story of the low-key, not-Spinosaurus paleontological papers recently published, discussing our bizarre Mesozoic macrofauna, this installment covers a few pterosaur tidbits. The first of these is an amazing assemblage of scattered bones [...]
Wishing I could have joined my colleagues this week for the 4th International Paleontology Congress in Mendoza, Argentina. There is a large amount of Triassic research being presented at this meeting.
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A seismologist at the University of Tokyo believes that the monstrous tsunami that was responsible for so much damage and loss of life during the 2011 Fukushima earthquake may have been a result of a submarine landslide the size of Paris. The [...]
It's October 2 again, and today would have been Karl Terzaghi's 131st birthday. As I was reflecting on Terzaghi and some of his quotes, I was reading a passage from Professor's Goodman's biography1 that described a talk that he gave in 1924 entitled [...]
This information is going to get outdated quickly if anything happens in Bárðarbunga volcano. Current status in Bárðarbunga volcano at 23:03 UTC The eruption in Holuhraun continues at the same rate as before. There are no signs of … [...]
Check the GoPro video of the fissure eruptions of Bardarbunga IcelandHot!!!Harry
There was a magnitude 3.4 earthquake on Sept. 20, 17 miles NNW of Miami and 63 miles east of Phoenix, at 1:03 p.m. [Right, the orange star marks the epicenter. Credit
The second day of the meeting revealed very nice and interesting talks of the Korean geologists and paleoseismologists, which was an excellent preparation for the upcoming post-meeting field trips on the following days. Talker of the day was Dr Tom [...]
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We continue exploring the biggest conundrums in Earth sciences in this third post of the known unknowns. In the two previous instalments of the series we’ve discovered what the major questions still to be answered about the early days of planet [...]