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Wednesday, 29 October 2014

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: The BBC Book of Dinosaurs 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [23:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 Cretaceous; GB
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In terms of saurian-related output, the BBC is best known these days for Walking With Dinosaurs, the super-expensive CG-laden Brannagh-narrated behemoth, sire of numerous tie-in books (and a movie that we won't mention). Nine years earlier, however, Auntie Beeb saw fit to give its endorsement to this little lost nugget of dinosauriana - The BBC Book of Dinosaurs. Authored by Paul Appleby and illustrated by Gill Tomblin, this rather obscure book is sweetly nostalgic for those of us raised on [...]

The Undersea Afterlives of Three Little Piggies 

Laelaps [22:04:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
category→recreation
Science often answers questions that I never would have thought to ask. For example, what happens to a

Doppler Radar Sees Debris from Antares Explosion 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [21:25:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
The NWS Doppler radar at Wakefield,Va detected the debris from the Antares explosion Tuesday evening. Not only that, but it was able to show that this was not rain but debris in the air. Being a dual [...]

Cerro Negro de Mayasquer Has Large Quake Swarm 

Volcano Science And News Blog [16:36:00]  recommend  1 recommendations  (234 visits) info
category→recreation
 Quaternary; CL,CO,EC,KM,ER,,US
On the Columbia-Argentina border, a volcano that has not had an eruption for over quite some time. There is a report of activity in 1936, however this is now assumed to have been from nearby Reventador [...]

Born This Day: Othniel Charles Marsh 

Palaeoblog [13:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
In 1866, the Peabody Museum of Natural History was founded with a gift from George Peabody. The same year his nephew, O.C. Marsh (Oct. 29, 1831 - Mar. 18, 1899), was also named its Professor of Paleontology, [...]

How the air we breathe was created by Earth’s tectonic plates 

An Atom\'s-Eye View of the Planet [13:07:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
category→science_technology
How is it that Earth developed an atmosphere that made the development of life possible? A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience links the origins of Earth’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere to the same [...]

Storm surge: Hurricane Sandy 

Real Climate [12:38:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
category→recreation
On the second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy making landfall, we are running an extract from a new book by Adam Sobel “Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past [...]

PaleoMuseu 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [12:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
category→science_technology
 BR
Hoje, 29 de Outubro de 2014, é criado o primeiro passo de um museu virtual, o PaleoMuseu, pelos nossos estudantes de Mestrado de Paleontologia FCT-UNL+UÉ, Pedro Fialho e Joana Damas. O financiamento do museu [...]

Collections Manager. Cleveland Museum of Natural History 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [10:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
category→recreation
 ES,US
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) is seeking a dynamic, creative and energetic individual who is passionate about the Museum and its mission; exhibits strong project management and organizational [...]

New report on the Napa Earthquake available, update on amount of afterslip 

Paleoseismicity [10:11:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US,KM
Our colleague Tim Dawson from the California Geological Survey (CGS) pointed me to this website, where reports and data on the Napa Earthquake of 24 August, 2014, are collected. There is a new document [...]

El hiperdesarrollado cráneo de Mapusaurus 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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La heterocronía, o lo que es lo mismo, los cambios evolutivos que implican una variación temporal de la tasa de cambio que se produce en un carácter de un organismo respecto a su antecesor, es uno de los [...]

ahabc 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:04:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
category→business
Der Dipl.-Geogr. Alexander Stahr führt darunter sein: Blogmagazin für Boden

Mount Mannen in Norway: an imminent large rockslide 

The Landslide Blog [07:38:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
category→recreation
 NO
In Mount Mannen in western Norway, an apparently imminent large rockslide is attracting great media interest, including a live

100 reasons the Earth is old — from Age of Rocks 

The GeoChristian [04:47:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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One of the best current blogs on the topics of geology, young-Earth creationism, and Christianity is Age of Rocks, written by Jonathan Baker. Today he published his 100th post, and commemorated that [...]

Klohn Crippen Berger to help MEM on Mt Polley 

I think mining [02:49:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
category→recreation
Today I received the followings announcement by email.  I cannot find the original on the website of the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM).  Maybe they have not gotten down to posting it yet.  The [...]

Antares Explodes At Wallops. Explosion Heard/Seen for 50 Miles. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:08:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
category→science_technology
Here is how the explosion looked as WBOC covered the Antares launch and explosion live. This was likely one of the largest rocket explosions ever at Wallops. The reason is that it happened with a fully fueled [...]

Copy Cat!: Fighting the Global Water Scarcity Issue 

State of the Planet [18:50:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
category→science_technology
According to the World Water Management Institute, over one-third of the human population is affected by water scarcity. Advances in physical understanding, its applications, and the study of our environment [...]

BVB-Kurzfilmwettbewerb 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [14:08:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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Der Bundesverband Boden e. V. (BVB) ruft zur Teilnahme auf:

London Aquarium 

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [13:28:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
Alongside my trip to London Zoo at the start of summer, I also took a day at the London Aquarium on the South Bank. The last time I had been was not too long after it opened, probably around 1996 and I [...]

A beefy stylolite 

Mountain Beltway [12:56:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
category→recreation
 CA
I saw this large, chunky stylolite this summer somewhere along the trail from Takkakaw Falls to the Walcott Quarry of the Burgess Shale (in Yoho National Park, British Columbia). I like the way weathering has [...]

Linux - Zoneminder 

Ontario-geofish [12:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info

 CN
Another big fail for me.  I have my nice cheap Chinese dash camera, and I wanted to whip up a home camera, using spare parts, sort of a Frankenstein for Halloween.  I started with Linux, a webcam, and [...]

EGU2015: Applying for financial support to attend the General Assembly 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:00:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 CN
The EGU is committed to promoting the participation of both young scientists and established researchers from low and middle income countries who wish to present their work at the EGU General Assembly. In [...]

New report on the Napa Earthquake available, update on amount of afterslip 

Paleoseismicity [10:39:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US,KM
Our colleague Tim Dawson from the California Geological Survey (CGS) pointed me to this website, where reports and data on the Napa Earthquake of 24 August, 2014, are collected. There is a new document [...]

Variadito III 

Koprolitos [10:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
category→recreation
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CC-By documents cannot be re-enclosed if their publisher is acquired 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:46:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
Just a quick post today, to refute an incorrect idea about open access that has unfortunately been propagated from time to time. That is the idea that if (say) PLOS were acquired by a barrier-based publisher [...]

Northern Convergence: America's Most Dangerous Volcano, and the End of the Journey 

Geotripper [08:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (702 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US,
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Northern Convergence as a name for this blog series was all about the role of a convergent plate boundary in the production of the scenery of the Pacific Northwest. The compressional forces that developed as [...]

October 29, 2014 

Geology.com News [07:10:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
category→recreation
 US,KW
VIDEO: Lava Flow in Hawaii Threatens Town Yahoo! News VIDEOS: Homes Evacuated Ahead of LavaBBC National Scenic Trails on USGS Topo MapsUnited States Geological Survey Kuwait Oil and Gas ReportEnergy [...]

The rise of urban hydrology as shown by word usage in Google’s ngrams 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [03:44:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
category→science_technology
Can you see the Clean Water Act in there? And how much newer the phrase “green infrastructure” is? “Growing up” as a geomorphologist, I learned about stream restoration much more [...]

Mytilus edulis Bivalve 

Louisville Area Fossils [02:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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 IT,US
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This picture shows a Mytilus edulis (Gray, 1847) marine bivalve mollusc at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this exist in today's oceans. It is also known as [...]
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