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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Saturday, 19 April 2014
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tierra de Dinosaurios [16:56:00]
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(58 visits) category→science_technology ES,MA
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(92 visits) category→science_technology RU,US
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 [...]
Geology in Motion [02:56:01]
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(65 visits) category→science_technology MX,KM,US,PR
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 [...]
Climate and Geohazards [02:12:48]
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(72 visits) category→science_technology 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 [...]
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 [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:12:00]
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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 [...]
Written In Stone...seen through my lens [16:56:00]
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(146 visits) category→science_technology 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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
About Geology [02:02:50]
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(77 visits) category→science_technology 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 [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:48:51]
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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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