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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Saturday, 22 November 2014
polar soils blog [02:18:00]
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A few days ago, we flew from Punta Arenas, Chile to Rothera Station in Antarctica. We flew in a small Dash 7 that is operated by the British Antarctic Survey.Dash 7 waiting for us in Punta Arenas, ChileWe flew south over the Strait of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, the Drake Passage, and on to the Antarctic Peninsula. As we approached Antarctica, we could start to see the sea ice (the ice-cap over the ocean) and the mountains poking out of the ice sheet on the mainland.View of Antarctica from the [...]
I think I'm at the final piece of my sample shipment/management saga. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, part 3 is here, and part 4 is here. Let's recap. When shipping samples, you need to make sure that the custody seals are all in place,
that the COC is filled out and signed properly, that the samples will
stay cold, but not so cold that they'll freeze, that the sample containers
won't
Earthly Musings [03:22:00]
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One of the extra-ordinary activities to undertake while visiting the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu is to take the trail to the top of the very obvious "sugarloaf" mountain that is usually framed behind the ruins. [...]
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [09:00:09]
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La revista Historical Biology publica la descipción de un nuevo género y especie de pterosaurio del Jurásico Superior de China. Fotografía y dibujo interpretativo del fósil holotipo de Daohugoupterus [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [01:27:36]
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This is going to be a short update. There are no major changes in the eruption in Holuhraun. From the looks on the web cameras it appears that wall of the crater has possibly collapsed, I don’t have [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [11:00:38]
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Matt’s post yesterday was one of several posts on this blog that have alluded to Clay Shirky’s now-classic article How We Will Read [archived copy]. Here is the key passage that we keep coming back [...]
Kovalevsky (Nov. 19, 1840 – Nov. 22, 1901) was the Russian founder of comparative embryology and experimental histology, who first established that there was a common pattern in the embryological development [...]
So today, I decided to make a dinosaur tournament with 16 dinosaurs. (all dinosaurs will be told later)
I want you to choose who is cooler-looking out of the dinosaurs below.
Ankylosaurus VS Stegosaurus
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So today, I decided to make a dinosaur tournament with 16 dinosaurs. (all dinosaurs will be told later)
I want you to choose who is cooler-looking out of the dinosaurs below.
Nothronychus VS Parasaurolophus
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Loosen your belts boys and girls, because we are approaching Thanksgiving, the day where diets and portion control cease to exist. To make things a bit easier for you, I have compiled some tips on how to make [...]
The drivers of tropical speciation. 2014. Smith, B.T., et al. Nature
Yellow bars correspond to the 95% highest posterior density for divergence times of each species. The Quaternary (2.6 Myr ago–present) [...]
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But where?!
It is a place where people have been known to lose their heads
And not just on the roads
Where bicycles are very important. (Although you actually see more of them being ridden in [...]
Mountain Beltway [17:13:29]
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Long week, no blog. But, hey – it’s Saturday, and I have a couple of hours of breathing room – so here are some stylolites in a crinoidal grainstrone in the New Creek member of the Helderberg [...]
imageSteve Clemente (born Esteban Clemento Morro Nov. 22, 1885—May 7, 1950) was a Mexican actor known for his many villainous roles. He began acting in his teens, signing up for his first movie, The Secret [...]
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Dart (Feb. 4 1893 - Nov. 22, 1988) was an Australian-born, South African physical anthropologist. In 1924, working with students in the Taung limestone South Africa, they discovered the first [...]
In the comment section of my last post, Steve asked if I had code to generate a Surfer.clr file from my Matlab colormaps. Some time ago I did write a
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake occurred shortly after noon today on the north side of Grand Canyon. The USGS placed the epicenter about 19 miles northwest of Grand Canyon Village, but Dr. Jeri Young who runs [...]
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