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Thursday, 08 October 2015

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El karst: secretos del Pirineo subterráneo 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [17:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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Ya está abierto el periodo de inscripción para para participar en la nueva edición del Seminario del Geoparque que se celebrará del 23 al 24 de octubre de 2015, que tiene como tema central "El karst: secretos del Pirineo subterráneo" y que en esta ocasión cuenta, además, con el patrocinio de la Comisión Nacional Española de Cooperación con la UNESCO.  A lo largo de estos tres días aprenderemos qué es el karst y qué paisajes superficiales y subterráneos le debemos. [...]

Comparing ALOS Global Digital Surface Model “ALOS World 3D – 30m” with SRTM 1 

Digital Geography [22:41:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info

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The last post with the focus on recent data for your work when it comes to DSMs or DEMs was a bit early honestly. I was working with the ALOS Global Digital Surface Model “ALOS World 3D – 30m” and I was comparing this with the SRTM 1 dataset for my beloved Kharkhorin area in Central Mongolia. So what is this ALOS model and how it performs? ALOS 3D I was downloading this tile from an easy to use tile-map. As you can see the ALOS 3D 30m model does not cover the whole world ATM [...]

Posibles simosaurios en las XXI Jornadas de la SEP 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [23:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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Entre las charlas y posters presentados en las XXI Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología que están teniendo lugar estos días en Baeza (Jaén), los miembros del Grupo de Biología Evolutiva de [...]

Utah Department of Natural Resources unveils new building Read more: Iron County Today – Utah Department of Natural Resources unveils new building 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:26:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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ironcountytoday.com On Sept. 28, the Utah Department of Natural Resources celebrated the opening of its new Southwest Regional Complex in Cedar City. READ

The 14 beautiful cervicals of Kaatedocus 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [00:46:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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Well, I’m a moron again. In the new preprint that I just published, I briefly discussed the six species of sauropod for which complete necks are known — Camarasaurus lentus (but it’s a [...]

El huevo de Iguanodon (Robert Duncan Milne) (Presentación) 

Koprolitos [09:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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 Jurassic; GB,FR,ES,PH,IN,US,GH,MN,CH,MX,IT,AR
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A partir de mañana y a lo largo de los próximos viernes, Koprolitos se complace en presentaros en rigurosa exclusiva el que, probablemente, sea el primer relato jamás escrito sobre dinosaurios, inédito [...]

What Earthquake Maps Should Really Look Like 

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news.nationalgeographic.com When we hear that a magnitude 8 earthquake has struck, we know that’s worse than a magnitude 4 earthquake. But how much worse? READ

48 Millionen Jahre alte Plazenta - Einzigartig erhaltener Urpferd-Fötus aus der Grube Messel 

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Wissenschaftler des Senckenberg Forschungsinstituts haben gemeinsam mit einer Kollegin von der Veterinärmedizinischen Universität in Wien den Fötus einer 48 Millionen Jahre alten Urpferdchen-Stute aus [...]

Live-Blogging Richard Waitt's In the Path of Destruction IV: Big Ba-Boom Edition 

Rosetta Stones [06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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In the meantime, we return to In the Path of Destruction! In our previous installments, we saw Mount St. Helens wake up and suffer some pretty extreme swelling, and we ended on the eve of eruption.... -- Read [...]

Help dig for dinosaurs with Utah Field House of Natural History 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:24:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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See an amazing array of dinosaur fossils at Vernal’s Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum, and maybe even dig up a few dinosaur findings yourself! ksl.com While it may be getting too [...]

An account of the El Cambray landslide in Guatemala 

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Losses from the El Cambray landslide in Guatemala have now reached 220, with a further 150 people thought to be still

Diesels and Nuclear Plants 

Ontario-geofish [20:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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I see there has been a lot of activity looking up my old posts about the old company, and a certain eastern nuclear plant, that I drove by today, on the way back from the cottage. Then I thought about vw and [...]

Field Reviews Coming Up 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:18:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info
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Hey everyone! We’ve got two field reviews of new geologic mapping are coming your way. One trip will cover the Willard Quadrangle, the other will cover the Salt Lake City North and Baileys Lake [...]

Tibetan Buddhists use human remains to create ritual artifacts 

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 CN,IN,TW,
by Kathleen Terris Located in the heart of the Asian continent between China and India, Tibet is a region with a complicated political history that has been a part of the People’s Republic of China since [...]

48-million-year-old horse-like fetus from Messel, Germany 

Palaeoblog [13:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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 Paleogene; DE
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Description of a Well Preserved Fetus of the European Eocene Equoid Eurohippus messelensis. 2015. PLoS ONE 10(10):e0137985. Skeleton of a mare of Eurohippus messelensis is shown with fetus (white ellipse). [...]

Groundwater Policy: Quis Custodiet Ipos Custodes 

Reporting on a Revolution [13:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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Who regulates the regulators? In the context of groundwater policy, who will keep an independent check on government data collection methods and analysis which informs groundwater policy decisions. It would [...]

When T. Rex Meets Triceratops in the New Dino Hall, It Will Be a Violent Affair 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:17:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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The National Museum of Natural History is planning for a dramatic exhibit in the coming years! smithsonianmag.com Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. Even after more than a century of fossil finds all over the [...]

Photos: World’s Five Deepest Lakes 

Lake Scientist [19:59:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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Water is an amazing thing. It can freeze into masses of ice and float or turn into steam and drift away. But perhaps one of water’s most interesting feats is[...] The post Photos: World’s Five Deepest [...]

DNA Spell Checker (2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) - Periodic Table of Videos 

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always in transit to the Maldives 

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Mirage, by Nina Burleigh 

Mountain Beltway [14:37:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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My latest audiobook consumed during my commute was the story of Napoleon Bonaparte’s (why do we always call him by his first name?) ill-fated expedition to Egypt in 1798. Napoleon brought with him a [...]

Another impact of land use change 

Water and Megacities [11:00:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
  India is a developing country and its newly developing state Chhattisgarh is also its apex of development. Development is the need of mankind, but not at the cost of changes in environmental [...]
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