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Friday, 19 September 2014

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hotel rewards 

Accidental Remediation [23:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
I do have a preferred hotel "brand" - it's the one that I have a credit card for, and it has a pretty good money spent: reward ratio. I think it's best to pick one brand and stick with it, to the extent possible - otherwise, you dilute out all your rewards and never build up enough to collect anything. With that said, I still have a fistful of hotel rewards cards from other brands. Sometimes

New Dinosaur Rhinorex Raises Cretaceous Quandary 

Laelaps [21:55:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (358 visits) info

 Cretaceous
Rhinorex is an evocative name for a dinosaur. It sounds like a snarling theropod with a huge nasal

Tanzania Launches Plan to Fight Climate Impacts on Agriculture 

State of the Planet [21:34:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (55 visits) info

 TZ
Vital Signs is a key part of Tanzania’s new Agriculture Climate Resilience Plan, which presents a strategy for sustainable agricultural development in the face of shifting rainfall patterns and other effects [...]

Pulling secrets from deep-sea, drillbit-eating rocks 

Geospace [16:35:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info

 PH,JP,
Amy West is the science writer and outreach and education officer for the JOIDES Resolution, a drill ship operated by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) that is on a two-month expedition studying [...]

GEER report on the Napa earthquake online 

Paleoseismicity [14:33:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info

 US
The M6.0 Napa earthquake came along with some interesting effects. It produced relatively large surface ruptures, but only minor secondary earthquake environmental effects like localized lateral spread, almost [...]

The known unknowns – the outstanding 49 questions in Earth Sciences (Part II) 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:45:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
Here is the second instalment in our series covering the biggest unknowns in the Geosciences. Last week we explored what it is about the Earth’s origin that still remains unclear and this week we probe the [...]

Oklahoma earthquakes - the big thrusts finally come 

Ontario-geofish [13:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info

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A big M4 thrust in the 'no man's land' between the zones.  This had an Intensity of 6, which is one of the highest so far.  It would have been felt as an explosion, and probably heard. Although I have been [...]

Moving to the University of East Anglia and two new landslide videos 

The Landslide Blog [10:48:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info

 CR,IN,GB
I have now moved to the University of East Anglia at PVC (RE). To restart blogging, two new landslide videos have been posted, from India and Costa

BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: Settled! A home for BlueSkiesResearch! 

James’ Empty Blog [09:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
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Hayward Baker to Provide Ground Improvement for New Atlanta Stadium Project 

GeoPrac.net [08:24:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (715 visits) info

 US
Hayward Baker will construct their Vibro Piers(TM) foundation system at the new stadium to house the Atlanta Falcons and a new MLS team. Their holes will be 2.5 feet in diameter and 27 feet deep and filled [...]

September 19, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info

 US,GL,NG,NZ
The Montepuez Ruby Mine GIA Gems of Corundum Geology.com Evacuation From Tsunamis USGS Black Glaciers in Greenland (Photos) Slate New USGS Topo Maps for Oregon USGS Basalt-Hosted Sapphire from Nigeria GIA [...]

HGVs – Henceforth Gas Vehicles? 

Between a Rock and a Hard Place [08:00:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info

 GB
This post was inspired by my recent attendance at the ADBA UK Biomethane & Gas Vehicle conference. You may not own or drive a car, but it is almost inevitable that part of your day-to-day your is delivered [...]

Born Liberal or Conservative? Mining via Gilbert and Sullivan. 

I think mining [07:16:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (1189 visits) info
Woke up late this morning after twelve hours sleep—seems the older I get the more I want to sleep.  Maybe it is old age or maybe riding my bicycle to work tires out the old body.  Or maybe there is [...]

Aptychodon sp. 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [04:14:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (1130 visits) info
Zähne bzw. deren Ausgüsse von (Plesiosaurier), Reuss, 1856 - () -

Near record peak discharge on San Pedro River 

Arizona Geology [03:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info

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Celebrate ARR Favorite Holiday at Mixers & Elixirs: Talk Like a Pirate Day 

BEYONDbones [02:00:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info

 US
Aye, we be fast approchin’ arrr favorite holiday and yours – Talk Like a Pirate Day! Get your bearings buccaneers and set sail for the Houston Museum of Natural Science where spirits and booty abound with [...]

Why This Climate Scientist Is Taking to the Streets 

State of the Planet [18:47:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
In the beginning of my career in atmospheric science, starting in the early 1990s, I consciously avoided doing research on global warming. I wanted to do pure science, without any political overtones. Besides [...]

Going on a rock cruise 

AGU Meetings [15:57:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info

 US,PH,JP,
A trio of two-month expeditions in 2014 will be in the region where the Pacific Plate is descending under the Philippine Plate to form the Mariana Trench and the deepest point in the ocean–the Challenger [...]

Friday fold: Miette Group anticline in Banff National Park, Alberta 

Mountain Beltway [13:52:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info

 CA
Here’s an outcrop of Miette Group slate, seen at the intersection of the Icefields Parkway with the Trans-Canada Highway, just north of Lake Louise, Alberta: There’s a lovely anticline just to the [...]

Move over, All Yesterdays: It’s time for #MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt! 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [13:35:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
                                

Evolution (1971) 

Koprolitos [12:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info

 MX,FR
El cortometraje canadiense "Evolution" dirigido por Michael Mills en 1971, trata la teoría evolutiva desde un punto de vista humorístico partiendo desde el surgimiento de células simples en los océanos [...]

Unsere neue Kundenberaterin Beatrice Priebe stellt sich vor 

Natursteine-Blog [10:02:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info

 PL,DE,RU
Neue freundliche Stimme am jonastone-Telefon Wir haben Zuwachs bekommen! Unsere neue Kundenberaterin in der jonastone Musterschau Mannheim heißt Beatrice Priebe. Sie freut sich ab sofort Ihnen Ihre Fragen [...]

Slide show of Deluge in Jammu and Kashmir, India. 

Environment and Geology [08:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info

 IN,
Heavy rainfalls battered the western Himalayas last week due to a clash between monsoon currents and winds from the Caspian Sea. byDr. Nitish

ENR Releases Top 200 Environmental Firms of 2014 

GeoPrac.net [08:15:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
ENR's annual ranking of the Top 200 Environmental Firms has been released. Their survey ranks firms based on revenue, and the results of their survey show a growth of 4% from 2013 to 2014 to $53.7 billion [...]

Learn About USGS Topo Maps in PDF Format 

Geology.com News [08:05:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
This video provides background information and a demonstration of the USGS “topo maps in PDF” product. Get more information about USGS topos in PDF format

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: A nest of cornulitid tubeworms and friends from the Upper Ordovician of northern Kentucky 

Wooster Geologists [07:27:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info

 Ordovician; US
This fascinating and complicated little cluster of cornulitid wormtubes was found by my current Independent Study student William Harrison while we were doing fieldwork near Petersburg, Kentucky. (Just down [...]

Tag des Geotops 2014 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [05:30:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info

 DE
Für NRW stellt der Geologische Dienst alle Geotop-Aktionen auf seiner

Aptychodon sp. 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [04:14:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
Zähne bzw. deren Ausgüsse von (Plesiosaurier), Reuss, 1856 - () -

Fenestella Bryozoan Fossils 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info

 Carboniferous; US
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These fossils appears to be a Fenestella. It was found in the Glen Dean formation.of Grayson County, Kentucky USA. There is an interesting set of spines in the middle of the image. The fossils date to the [...]

Glad You Asked: September 18, 2014 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:31:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
When I was a child, my family would often go camping in the summers. I would pick up various rocks and ask my dad what they were. “They’re called Leavarite, so you leave em’ right [...]
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