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Stepping Stones: The Making of Our Home World [2016-06-09 12:28:20]
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Sections Geology and the ‘greenhouse’ A proxy for tectonics and climate Volcanic super events Parisian summer months of 1783 were heady days in more ways than one, as Benjamin Franklin noted. The first diplomatic representative… More
Three Sinornithoides youngi, one standing, one sitting, one sunbathing. But would these animals really have adopted resting poses like those of modern birds, as shown here, or would they have relaxed in completely different postures?A recurrent [...]
There are some structural goodies here at the confluence of the Rapid River and the Salmon River in west-central Idaho. I visited these outcrops three weeks ago on a field trip after the Rocky Mountain section meeting of GSA. The rocks are the [...]
I found a few specimens of a colonial rugose coral with some really deep corallites in the Martin formation north of Payson, AZ. At first I thought they might be Hexagonaria sp. but the cup depth is much greater than that genera. So, after [...]
The University of Oxford is looking for a PostDoc research assistant under the direction of Professor Richard Walker and Professor Philip England to work on active tectonics in China. The focus is on the Hexi corridor and the Qilian Shan of Gansu. [...]
The 7th International INQUA Workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology (PATA Days) took place last week in Crestone, CO. The meeting was organised by Jim McCalpin who did an amazing job – thanks Jim for inviting us to [...]
It's been a bumper year for geobaking - our highest ever number of entries! Thank you and a huge round of applause to everyone who took part. Continue reading
With time on our prospecting trip running out, we hit the hills early yesterday. The ridge we hiked down had some great exposure and the area turned out to be littered with fossil bone. Around every corner we found piles of Triceratops bone many [...]
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Fastening the walls to the foundation is a great idea, but only for single-story totally wood houses. These are the cases where the foundation slip was the main cause of damage. So, if you have a shack, then do it by all means.
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Our series of virtual samples continues! This week, I’m presenting examples of a visualization combination that leverages the advantages of the GIGAmacro system with the 3D ‘virtual sample’ perspective of the Sketchfab-hosted [...]