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Thursday, 28 July 2016
Today we surface collected from a new site that a member of the crew found on an evening prospecting trip a few days ago. Now a barren wasteland, it once represented a place where the Cretaceous river flooded its bank, spilling sediment and bone across the surface. It’s quite a lengthy layer of bone, around … Continue reading Boiling. Literally
Yesterday I showed you two scenes, depicted in two photos each, that I saw on the beach at Machir Bay, Islay, last week. I suggested that it might be fun to compare and contrast them. Scene #1 was this: Scene #2 was this: Scene #1 is a place where aeolian (wind) currents were at work. They appear to have stripped away some of the sand protecting these pebbles, and then
A Psittacosaurus and two Confuciusornis preserved by the Pompeii Effect. Image courtesy of Nanjing University.
The Pompeii Effect can be defined as when the remains of organisms are preserved by [...]
NOAA has decided on the nuts and bolts of a new, next generation, weather model that will replace the present Global Forecast System (GFS model), and the choice is sure to spark some controversy. The choice [...]
Between January 2013 and December 2014, water levels in Lake Superior and Lake Michigan-Huron went up at the highest rate ever recorded over a two-year period. The question then was[...]
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Written by Jack Alger, HMNS Paleontology Intern This summer I bring dimetrodons back to life. No, life has not found a way, I’m not extracting DNA from inclusions found in amber; I work in the Houston [...]
Teil 1 des DSM (Deep Space Manoeuvre) der ESA-Marsmission ExoMars 2016 wurde heute erfolgreich durchgeführt. Das Triebwerk lief 52 Minuten lang und verabreichte ein Delta-v von 326.5 m/s, wie geplant 95% des [...]
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New research shows that natural accumulations of carbon dioxide (CO2) that have been trapped underground for around 100,000 years have not significantly corroded the rocks above, suggesting that storing [...]
Port Lympne (pronounced like 'limb') is a wildlife park in Kent, not too far from Hythe, which along with Howletts zoo (nearer Canterbury) is run by the Aspinall Foundation. Port Lympne houses a huge variety [...]
Bridgit Boulahanis, a marine geophysics graduate student at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, prepares to head out on her first research cruise exploring the seafloor with underwater
A fantastic video has been posted on Youtube showing a very large debris flow in the Illgraben catchment in Canton Vallais,
Im letzten Beitrag hatte ich über erzählt, wie man Schuttströme oder Muren mit Hilfe seismischer Methoden an einem Modell erforscht. Einen etwas anderen Weg geht man in der Schweiz. Hier hat die [...]
Obwohl es um die Zeit des 19.07. sehr heiß war und somit die Wahrscheinlichkeit für Gewitter höher als sonst war, erschien das Wetter für Astronomie geeignet. Da allerdings Vollmond war und auch die Nacht [...]
Interested in the most relevant soil articles of 2015? In this short series of posts I’ve compiled a list of the 30 most cited articles of the top ten journals in the category of SOIL SCIENCES. [...]
Read about new MSSM Faculty member Ralph Schmidt, and how he will bring his expertise to the classroom in fall 2016 with a new course: The Business and Ecology of Sustainable
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