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Friday, 27 November 2015

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Paraspirifer bownockeri Brachiopod Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [04:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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 Devonian; ES,US
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This brachiopod fossil is called Paraspirifer bownockeri from the Silica Shale. It is from Sylvania, Ohio in Lucas County. The fossil dates from the Devonian Period. Thanks to Vic for the

Playing with science metrics 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [16:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--> There are numerous critiques, both online and in the literature (pdf), of the overused H-index and journal impact factor (IF) metrics, particularly when it comes to assessing the quality of recent research.  However, many of these critiques do not

Paleo Profile: The Head of the Devil 

Laelaps [13:00:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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You know a skull’s special when the researchers studying the fossil call it “the head of the devil”. And Lende chiweta, described by paleontologist Ashley Kruger and colleagues, lives up to [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A fragmentary rostroconch from the Middle Devonian of Ohio 

Wooster Geologists [05:15:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
Not all of our featured fossils are particularly beautiful, or even entire, but they are interesting in some way. Above is the broken cross-section of a rostroconch mollusk known as Hippocardia Brown, 1843. It [...]

Die Walthersche Faziesregel 

Geschichte der Geologie [21:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 DE,IT,AU,LK,FR,IN,US
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In 1791 schlug der berühmte Chemiker Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794) vor das sich die Küste von Frankreich, genügend Zeit und Eintrag von Sand durch Flüsse vorausgesetzt, langsam Richtung tieferes [...]

Chocolat D'Aiguebelle Fossil Trading Cards 

Palaeoblog [12:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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From Prehistosaurio Read more about these cards at the great Paleo-blog, Love In The Time of

Tartarugas fósseis de Angola 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [11:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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 AO,US
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O registro fóssil de tartarugas de Angola era pouco conhecido antes do trabalho de campo realizado pelo Projecto PaleoAngola, com a excepção da pleurodira Taphrosphys congolensis Dollo 1912 recolhido no [...]

Why are Past Surface Temperatures and CO2 Concentrations Important? 

State of the Planet [15:00:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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Kelsey Dyez, a geochemist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, describes how the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere influences

Paleontólogos determinan que los dinosaurios fueron asesinados por alguien de confianza 

Koprolitos [16:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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Relevante noticia publicada el pasado miércoles por The Onion (17 de noviembre de 2015):Paleontólogos determinan que los dinosaurios fueron asesinados por alguien de confianzaBERKELEY, CA - Citando [...]

GeoEd: How do we make climate predictions – An idea for an outreach activity 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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 AT,DE,NO,CA,GB
This month’s GeoEd post is brought to you by Dr. Mirjam S. Glessmer. Mirjam is a physical oceanographer, who during her PhD at GEOMAR Kiel, Germany, became more and more interested in understanding how [...]

Life Will Find a Way 

Koprolitos [09:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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 Jurassic; GB
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Little Print Shop of Horrors es una tienda online de obra gráfica de diferentes dibujantes e ilustradores británicos. Radicada en Manchester, nació con un afán solidario, puesto que colabora activamente [...]

Who was to blame for the Hpakant jade mine landslide? 

The Landslide Blog [08:00:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
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 MM
As rescue and recovery operations at the site of the Hpakant jade mine landslide in Burma cease, a war of words has broken out as to whose fault it
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