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Friday, 30 September 2016

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Busgus elevates earthquake odds to ridiculous levels 

Ontario-geofish [23:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
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Reference I looked it up and argued with people on my collection, but it is true.  They have knocked up the hazard by a factor of 50 for the next week because of this cluster. They've always said that a cluster knocks up the odds by 1 to 10% for the next week.  I blame this typo on their new 'PR Wall of Suits'.  Nobody can get to a scientist now, with Trumpy scaring them to death.  So

Katla Volcano In Iceland Alert Raised 

Volcano Science And News Blog [23:33:00]  recommend  1 recommendations  (572 visits) info
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Katla volcano in Iceland has been raised to Yellow status, as a near three day quake swarm is rattling the massive volcano. A warning from Icelandic authorities has been issued as follows (translated):"The National Commissioner of Police and the District Commissioner of Police in South Iceland have declared a Civil Protection Uncertainty phase due to seismic unrest in Katla volcano in Mýrdalsjökull.The contingency plan for an eruption in Mýrdalsjökull has been activated accordingly. [...]

Once upon a time... mission complete 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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[jules' pics] via Dent 

James’ Empty Blog [17:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
Ever since we moved to Settle 2 years ago we have been meaning to cycle to somewhere, via Dent. Last time we visited Dent by bicycle was probably the mid 1990s, and all I really remember is a heron flying [...]

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Geology in the West Country [17:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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A Guide to Invertebrate Zoology on Twitter!! 

Echinoblog [16:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
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image by the indubitable Arthur Anker This week. Something a little different. I was doing a short presentation for some colleagues about using social media next week and I began accumulating Invertebrate [...]

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Geology in the West Country [16:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
Fossil from China may reveal the origin of legs.This millimetre-long fossil is the oldest to preserve muscle fibres. Zhang Xiguang, Author providedThe origin of

Friday fold: Torqued talc from the 2016 Biggs awardee 

Mountain Beltway [14:59:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (352 visits) info
Callan's colleague Joshua Villalobos won the 2016 Biggs Award. He also makes GigaPans of folds, like these talc-bearing rocks of the Allamoore

Katla volcano update at 10:48 UTC 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [12:48:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
This article is going to be updated as needed today (30-September-2016). During the last 48 hours total of 261 earthquake has happened in Katla volcano when this is written. Largest earthquakes during the last [...]

Extinct Animals 

Koprolitos [10:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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Chris EllHace tiempo que no traíamos por aquí los fotomontajes de la web Worth 1000 (que por cierto se ha integrado en DesignCrowd). Ya hemos visto anomalías arqueológicas, historia alternativa, cráneos [...]

The Sunda/Sumatra subduction zone- how does it compare to other subduction zones around the world? 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [08:36:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
What is a subduction zone? read

Wooster’s Pseudofossil of the Week: It’s not what it looks like 

Wooster Geologists [06:01:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
Impressive, isn’t it? You can practically smell it steaming on your screen. Hard to believe this object is Miocene in age, about 6 million years old. Here’s another similar specimen in a top view, if we [...]

Transitions ~ Fossil Stem Turtles and Antique Theater Playbills 

Fossils and Other Living Things [04:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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In which the blogger persists in his mad quest to find connections between two disparate subjects, come hell or high water.I began my summer studying literature on the evolution of the turtle shell and ended [...]

paper authorship 

Accidental Remediation [00:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
Dynamic Ecology has a recent post up regarding awesome ways to decide paper authorship (bribe? coin flip? brownie bake-off?). My academic paper had a pretty standard order, based on contribution: [...]

As Warnings Build, Is There a ‘Spiral of Silence’ on Climate Change? 

dot Earth [18:41:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
A new survey shows most Americans are moderately or very interested in global warming, but rarely or never talk about

El Spinophorosaurus virtual se pasea por las VII Jornadas de Salas de los Infantes 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [17:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
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Continuamos con las crónicas de las recientemente celebradas VII Jornadas de Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno en Salas de los Infantes (Burgos). En esta ocasión, os traemos las conclusiones [...]

This calls for a celebration: GeoLog’s 1000 post! 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [17:07:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
As far as blogging milestones go, today is pretty special. This is GeoLog’s 1000 post! Since the EGU’s official blog launched back in March 2010 (that’s right, there’s over 6 years of back catalogue [...]

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Geology in the West Country [16:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
Piltdown Man and Teilhard de ChardinEoanthropus dawsoniWas it a hoax gone wrong and who was the hoaxer?I thought it might be a hoax when I read that accompanying the bones was a piece of wood remarkably like a [...]

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Geology in the West Country [16:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
More Cambrian FossilsAnomalocaridid.  H Zell/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAAll you want to know about Penis WormsApparently they get their name from their

[jules' pics] Via Berkshire 

James’ Empty Blog [15:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
Uncle In Law expects to see pictures of our recent visit down south. Problem is I was really in transit from the Holiday Inn Express at Munich Airport where I'd attended an exciting and somewhat sleepless [...]

Dr. Van Der Sanden Talks About Bog Bodies 

BEYONDbones [14:00:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
    Since our new special exhibit Mummies of the World has officially opened for all to come and see, we thought it would be a good idea to publish a series of blogs about the different kinds of [...]

... e anche Giuliani, grazie all'ignoranza scientifica, rialza la testa... 

scienzeedintorni [11:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (642 visits) info
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Houston, abbiamo un problema... Avevo scritto dopo il terremoto del 24 agosto “Giuliani non pervenuto”. Invece è pervenuto eccome. Anzi, è ricomparso cercando di sfruttare la situazione a suo favore per [...]

Nuevos datos sobre Camerochelys en las VII Jornadas de Salas de Los Infantes 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [10:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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En el registro del Cretácico Inferior español se identifica un número relativamente elevado de tortugas. Así, la diversidad actualmente reconocida para las tortugas del Cretácico Inferior de esta región [...]

Historic Rainfall Event in Maryland and Delaware 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:45:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
In my last post, I wrote about the possibility of a severe flood/rain event in Eastern Virginia/Delaware/Maryland. Unfortunately my forecast was correct, and in short, it’s still raining. The town of [...]

Lake Erie Algae Blooms Correlate to June Rainfall 

Terra Central [05:58:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (205 visits) info
June precipitation appears to be positively correlated to algae blooms in Lake Erie. Looking at monthly precipitation data readily-available from Weather Underground and comparing it to the Western Lake Erie [...]

Sunday Stone - A Coal Mine Work Log? 

Louisville Area Fossils [04:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (599 visits) info
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This posting is not about a fossil but an interesting artifact I saw on display at the British Natural History Museum in London, England. It is called the Sunday Stone that formed in South Shields a Tyneside [...]
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