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Sunday, 02 August 2015
The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle
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 picture of what the devestation will look like based on input from many people who know what they are talking about, geologists, seismologists, FEMA officials, and State and Local disaster planning folks. This article was so effective, that NPR reported a run on survival kit supplies in [...]August 3, 2015
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Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [16:50:21]
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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 [...]
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The Missing Sink: Carbon storage in the world’s deserts
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 [...]Fossilium Catalogus. I, Animalia (1–57)
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 [...]Wiltshire Geology Group AGM - August 10th
Geology in the West Country [13:11:00]
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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 [...]
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Beyond plate tectonics
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 [...]Dinosaur Fossil Egg Clutches
New Paper Shows Global Climate Model Errors are Significantly Less Than Thought
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:01:24]
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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? [...]
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In viaggio geologico insieme a Darwin
Storia della Geologia [15:39:00]
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US,GB,CV,FI,IT,BR
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2000 “Texans” with all the fixin’s….
Fossilium Catalogus. I, Animalia (1–57)
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 [...]Orthis? sp. brachiopods from the Kalkberg formation of New York
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Devonian; DE,US
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Shh! Arizona oil exploration is covert search for buried alien spacecraft
Arizona is Going to Get Another Meteor Crater, Only Bigger. And We Know Where and Why.
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