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Saturday, 19 April 2014

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What Mexico has, California is lacking 

Seismo Blog [22:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info

Geodateninfrastruktur in Deutschland: ein kritischer Überblick (II) 

Digital Geography [21:54:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (45 visits) info
Der Freistaat Sachsen stellt sich – ähnlich wie die bereits vorgestellten Bundesländer – zunächst relativ quer, was den Download oder die Einbindung von Datensätzen betrifft. Es existiert zwar das geoportal.Sachsen , welches Geodaten zu verschiedenen Fragestellungen bereithält, aber auch hier lassen sich auf den ersten Blick Daten nicht direkt als WMS/WFS oder Shape downloaden. Lediglich […] The post Geodateninfrastruktur in Deutschland: ein kritischer Überblick (II) appeared [...]

Stratigraphy day at Makhtesh Ramon 

Wooster Geologists [17:27:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
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MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–Usually on Saturdays Yoav Avni and I do something “touristic”, like visit an archaeological site or museum. Since it is the Passover holiday, though, and we are both [...]

Actividades arqueológicas y paleontológicas para mayo en la Sierra de la Demanda (Burgos). 

Tierra de Dinosaurios [16:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
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Mayo será un mes con bastante actividad en torno a los dinosaurios y también al patrimonio arqueológico que contiene la Sierra de la Demanda (Burgos). Con motivo del Día Internacional del Museo (18 de [...]

Happy Easter with a (fake) Dozen Dinosaur Eggs 

History of Geology [16:35:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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Roy Chapman Andrews was not only an intrepid explorer and palaeontologist, but also a gifted promoter. The Central Asiatic Expeditions were accompanied by cameras to document the entire work. As the conditions [...]

Un pulcino di Deltadromeus? 

Theropoda [16:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (46 visits) info
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 US,MA
Il Cenomaniano continentale del Marocco è noto per i suoi theropodi giganti. Spinosaurus (ed il suo potenziale sinonimo Sigilmassasaurus), Carcharodontosaurus, Deltadromeus (ed il suo potenziale sinonimo – [...]

Megistocrinus sp. crinoid calyx from Marilla, NY 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
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It's not a great fossil but the specimen below is one of the few Crinoid calyxes that I have found. It's a weathered Megistocrinus sp. calyx that I found in the Deep Run mbr. of the Moscow formation.I found it [...]

Mexico's 7.2 earthquake and it's early warning system 

Geology in Motion [02:56:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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Seismic record from the Guerrero April 18 earthquakeFrom Earthquake-Report.com A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the Acapulco/Mexico City region early this morning, a Good Friday holiday morning when [...]

Guest Blog: Earthquake threat to Mexico City from the Guerrero seismic gap 

Climate and Geohazards [02:12:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
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 MX
David Bekaert is a PhD student based in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. David’s research involves using space based remote sensing technologies to study ground motions [...]

Out of the Valley of Death and into an Upside Down Mountain 

Geotripper [01:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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The Grapevine Mountains form the eastern margin of the Death Valley north of Stovepipe Wells, reaching elevations of nearly 9,000 feet in places. It's an imposing range, stark, barren, and rugged. All of the [...]

I can only beg ... suspend judgment until the whole case shall have been presented 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
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“Hillers trachyte is a pale gray paste with large white crystals of feldspar and crystals large and small of hornblende.  This describes the variety at hand.”This is one of the least eye-catching [...]

Geological Legacies of the Paris Basin: Part I – Plaster of Paris, the Windmills of Montmartre, the Park of Buttes-Chaumont and a new Artistic Creativity 

Written In Stone...seen through my lens [16:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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 Paleogene,Cretaceous,Jurassic,Triassic,Permian,Devonian,Ordovician,Cambrian; GB,JM,FR,NL,ES,CH,US,IT,BE,CA,CN,KM,DE,GR,PT,,TH,IN,IE
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In March, I escaped from the frigid grip of the Polar Vortex that enveloped New England and found climatic, cultural and culinary refuge in Paris and London. Not expecting to encounter any [...]

A Rose By Any Other Name 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [16:13:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (41 visits) info
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I love the way Bob (one of our amazing geomagnetists, who uncovers the history and magnetic secrets of the Earth by looking at tiny cubes of mud!) so [...]

Science Snap (#24): The psychedelic Zambezi flood plain 

Between a Rock and a Hard Place [09:44:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (56 visits) info

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This colourful image shows the Zambezi River’s floodplain in Zambia. The image was created from three acquisitions from Envisat’s radar instrument that were merged together. Each acquisition was [...]

Edge States: Wendover Launch 

Friends of the Pleistocene [06:20:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (791 visits) info
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residency support unit and Exhibition Hall 2, CLUI Wendover, UT We’re happy to announce the opening of Look Only at the Movement in Wendover, Utah.  Wendover is located 2,292 miles west of New York [...]

Bruce Black Hole: Dilution is the Solution 

Ontario-geofish [02:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (56 visits) info
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Article I am stunned that an expert group would come up with this.  They obviously have their eye on the prize, which is more money from this project. I will now completely shut up on this project, and wait [...]

Do We Need Hadean Eras? 

About Geology [02:02:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
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 Eoarchean; US
In geology, the rocks have a way of messing with our pretty schemes. One instance I'm thinking of involves the base of the geologic time scale. The Earth itself is about 4.5 billion years old--but the time [...]

Suomi Satellite Night Vision Sees Great Lakes Ice 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:48:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
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The CIMMS Satellite blog has posted a fantastic image of the ice cover on the Great Lakes. See my previous post for more info. This is a visible light (not IR) image made by the VIRRS sensor on Suomi is below: [...]
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