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Friday, 21 April 2017
Sen. McCain aide (l) reading letter thanking Mary Poulton (r).
At today's Arizona Mining Alliance luncheon, Dr. Mary Poulton, Professor, University of Arizona, was honored for her long service to America's mining industry and to her students and colleagues at the University of Arizona.
Mary's impact was felt far and wide as evinced by the letters acknowledging Mary's contribution to
Mosaics were common features, in both public spaces and private homes, in ancient Rome. Mosaics are beautiful, but also historically important. Mosaics provide a visual record, detailing everyday life, by depicting items such as food, dress, pets, and people. This common art form provides a looking glass into the past. The mosaic below depicts several
In der Türkei gab es heute 2 Erdbeben mit der Magnitude 5,0. Das erste Hypozentrum lag in 6 km Tiefe westlich des Ortes Usak. Das Zweite in 10 km Tiefe östlich von Izmir. Gerade hier ist ein weitaus [...]
Nepal wird immer wieder von Erdbeben heimgesucht. Diese Erdbeben können auch zusätzlich Lawinen auslösen. So auch in diesem Video, in dem einmal ein Paar beim Hiken unterhalb des Mount Everest [...]
Interested in the fate of the Colorado River in a period of overallocation, drought and climate change?
Come join the discussion next Thursday, 27 April at 4:00 p.m. on the campus of the Univ. of [...]
Nuestra aragosaurera Penélope acaba de publicar un trabajo en el JVP con la descripción de un nuevo hadrosaurio de Argentina. Hace unos días la vimos estudiando otro ornitópodo en el Museo de Rincón de [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [15:00:24]
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Earlier this month we shared a post on how you can keep up to date with all the science being presented at the General Assembly via our social media channels. This week we share with you how you can tune into [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [11:27:59]
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This year, there’s a great line-up of early career scientist (ECS) sessions at the General Assembly. Not only that, but there are opportunities to meet those that represent you in the Union, get to know [...]
Around 10,000 years ago, Argentina was home of numerous species of giant Xenarthrans, giant ground sloths (relative to tree sloth) and glyptodontids (relative to tiny extant [...]
We have reached our target depth in the current hole and will move to another hole nearby to go deeper. This has to happen because we can only drill to a [...]
This image is of an Inoceramus labiatus
(Schlotheim) pelecypod fossil from the Late Cretaceous Period
(Turonian). Found in the Upper Chalk Oldbury near Heytesbury Wilts England. Displayed at
the
British [...]
Nepal wird immer wieder von Erdbeben heimgesucht. Diese Erdbeben können auch zusätzlich Lawinen auslösen. So auch in diesem Video, in dem einmal ein Paar beim Hiken unterhalb des Mount Everest [...]
A flower-less rockcress.
Every spring some of our rockcresses forego flowering, and instead grow terminal clusters of fragrant yellow leaves dotted with sugary goo. But why? Generally plants produce [...]
Deutsch-kanadisches Forscherteam entdeckt neuen Bildungsmechanismus in früherem marinen Sedimentbecken
20.04.2017/Kiel. Der Witwatersrand in Südafrika beherbergt das größte
bekannte Goldvorkommen [...]
My mercenary streak continues. The last one was so successful, that I got 2 clicks and one order. That will probably give me $2. I will continue in the tone of the famous hammer-schlammer catalogue.
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After I saw Jurrasic Park, I wondered if some dinosaurs actually did hunt in packs.
Mapusaurus lived 97-94 mya, the same time as argentinosaurus. A single mapusaurus certainly couldn’t hunt this giant. [...]
Coma Niddy es el alter ego de Mike Wilson, un educador científico que se ha especializado en componer canciones de hip-hop con temática científica. Ha rapeado de nanotecnología, de exoplanetas, de [...]
After many back-to-back hours of measuring rock properties on the cores, our group is being challenged. Our skillfully crafted work plan on who does what, [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [05:21:07]
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Good morning! Zaoshang Hao! (good morning in Mandarin). I can technically say this for my entire working day except for today when I get up a little early [...]
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