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Sunday, 02 August 2015

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Arizona is Going to Get Another Meteor Crater, Only Bigger. And We Know Where and Why. 

Geotripper [03:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (664 visits) info
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This is NOT a killer asteroid entering the Earth's atmosphere. It is a sun dog over Oak Flat Campground near Superior, Arizona. Oak Flat is going to become a gigantic crater. Because it won't be a meteor that causes it. It won't be an atomic bomb test. And it won't be because of aliens like those stupid ones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The giant crater will

Dinosaur Fossil Egg Clutches 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (623 visits) info
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These pictures show dinosaur fossil egg clutches. It is thought more spherical or circular eggs belong to plant eating dinosaurs while narrow and long eggs belonged to carnivore dinosaurs. Fossils were on display at Children's Museum of Indianapolis Dinosphere exhibit as of July 2015. They are on loan from John and Jack Hankla. The museum was founded in 1925 and consists of an

Shh! Arizona oil exploration is covert search for buried alien spacecraft 

Arizona Geology [05:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (598 visits) info
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2000 “Texans” with all the fixin’s…. 

SUGAR [15:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (576 visits) info
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During our project, we plan to record sound waves generated by a series of controlled blasts on two profiles, one with 2000 instruments (“Texans”) deployed along a 350-mile-long profile across Georgia and [...]

Beyond plate tectonics 

Metageologist [07:05:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (204 visits) info
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Plate tectonics is the core unifying concept that has underpinned our understanding of the solid earth for over 50 years. To describe your research as moving “beyond plate tectonics” is quite a [...]

Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [16:50:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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On the 01-August-2015 an earthquake swarm took place on the Reykjanes ridge. This earthquake swarm was far off the coast line and populated areas and was only seen on instruments (seismometers). The earthquake [...]

The Missing Sink: Carbon storage in the world’s deserts 

Through the Sandglass [15:34:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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Deep-rooted and completely erroneous preconceptions of our planet’s arid lands as sterile bit-players in the great game of the earth’s dynamic systems have long inhibited our scientific enthusiasm for, and [...]

Inaugural newsletter on Military Geosciences 

Arizona Geology [22:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> The International Association for Military Geosciences has released its inaugural newsletter.  In the announcement I received, associations Secretary, [...]

New Paper Shows Global Climate Model Errors are Significantly Less Than Thought 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:01:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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Imagine I look at a numerical weather model forecast that predicts the temp. at 5 PM the next day, will be 30C where I live. The next day, I go out at 5 PM and measure 29C instead. Was the model wrong? [...]

Fossilium Catalogus. I, Animalia (1–57) 

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Frei zugängliche, digitalisierte Bände des Fossilium Catalogus zwischen 1913 (Band 1) und 1932 (Band 57). Verweise auf die Pomeranian Digital Library (PBC), Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) und [...]

In viaggio geologico insieme a Darwin 

Storia della Geologia [15:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (565 visits) info
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Fin dalla sua gioventù Charles Darwin aveva mostrato un interesse al mondo naturale – tra cui campi classici come la collezione di coleotteri e di minerali. I suoi primi passi da vero naturalista, con tanto [...]

Orthis? sp. brachiopods from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

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I'm really torn on how to classify these next fossils from the Kalkberg formation. To my eye they look like Rhipidomella sp., which is very common in middle Devonian aged rocks, but I cannot find any [...]

The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle 

GeoPrac.net [23:04:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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This is a fantastic article by Kathryn Schulz for New Yorker Magazine on the seismic and tsunami hazards associated with the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest. Ms. Schulz paints a very vivid [...]

Wiltshire Geology Group AGM - August 10th 

Geology in the West Country [13:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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Wiltshire Geology Group AGMWiltshire Wildlife Trust, Devizes Monday 10th August 2015 at 7pm.Please contact the secretary if you wish to receive the agenda or minutes from 2014. Nominations for the roles [...]

August 3, 2015 

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Glaciers of Frozen Nitrogen, Methane and Carbon Monoxide on PlutoThe Sydney Morning Herald What is a Glacier? Geology.com Greenland’s Undercut Glaciers Melting Faster than ThoughtNASA U.S. Domestic Oil: [...]

Fossilium Catalogus. I, Animalia (1–57) 

kreidefossilien.de [13:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
Frei zugängliche, digitalisierte Bände des Fossilium Catalogus zwischen 1913 (Band 1) und 1932 (Band 57). Verweise auf die Pomeranian Digital Library (PBC - DJVU-Plugin/Viewer notwendig), Biodiversity [...]
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