Efectivamente, hoy ha dado comienzo una nueva campaña de excavación en los yacimientos del Campus de Somosaguas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Como cada año, las actividades a realizar en la primera mañana de la excavación se concentran en la limpieza del yacimiento, el izado del toldo y finalmente la organización de la cuadrícula.
Para las dos primeras tareas hemos contado con
One of the rock properties we measure in the “Physical Properties” group, is thermal conductivity. This is a measure of how well the sediments or rock [...]
While at Walt Disney World last year and this year we hit up one of the four main parks, Animal Kingdom. Animal Kingdom, as the name suggests, it dominated by animals (shocker!), but they also have a section [...]
I've recently had the opportunity to travel across part of the Great Basin of eastern California and northern and central Nevada, and have noticed a lot of high water, almost everywhere. Honey Lake, which has [...]
Baker Island
Back in 2008 I wrote a post about a great looking starfish that I wanted to know more about, a weird looking deep-sea star called Tremaster mirabilis!
Its a striking looking animal and its [...]
The Apollo missions visited 6 geologically complex sites of interest on the lunar surface during the 1969-1972 period and brought back around 382 kg of samples back to Earth for analysis. This amount of [...]
A nova espécie Galeamopus pabsti é o dinossauro mais recente descrito pelos paleontólogos do Departamento de Ciências da Terra da Universidade de Turim, Itália, pela Faculdade de Ciências e [...]
Will Campi Flegri erupt soon?
Bruce Buswell has brought this article to my attention. The Campi Flegri or (for those with a Classical education) the Phlegraean Fields is a volcanic caldera just west of [...]
Earth's Magnetic Field - Flipping and Lava Lamps
In this article the author writes that flipping of the earth's magnetic field may be caused by recently discovered "large-low-velocity-provinces" or "blobs" at [...]
Baleen Whale with Teeth (just)
Whales started out as "something like a bear" to quote Darwin. This article describes a fossil where teeth are on the cusp (sorry!) of being replaced by fibrous plates called [...]
>It made me so happy to finally meet Glen this morning. He is locally world famous here on the JR. It is kind of like meeting David Attenborough or [...]
It was like being young again. On the road, driving fast, light fading, finally a sign—the wrong sign. Missed the turnoff 40 miles back. Turn north anyway, drive fast, light fading, hit the brakes, back [...]
I'm back. It was epic. There was geology. I saw the South Tibetan Detachment fault zone. I saw rock deformation. I saw Pleistocene -Holocene glacial deposits. I saw glaciers... I trekked, I photographed, I [...]
On Friday the China Minmetals Corporation signed a 15-year contract with the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for exploration of polymetallic nodules on the deep seabed of the Pacific Ocean. The ISA has [...]
My adopted 'old man' just had his computer hosed. He didn't click on anything recently. No backups. I've always wanted him to get a Chromebook. Anyway, it was win10 with automatic updates. The most [...]
The University of Wuerzburg, Germany, has established a very well-equipped young-scientist programme, called "Excellent Ideas programme ": each junior research group
consists of a group leader, a [...]
The great thing about the Oklahoma seismic zone is its ability to get everything else excited. This is an M4+ earthquake, with an intensity of 5. Right now, it's officially an m3.2 but it was recorded as a [...]
Resumen de lo publicado: Ricardo, el richardoestesia, ha acudido junto a sus amigos paronychodones a una competición de saltos al vacío donde se mueve gran cantidad de dinero en apuestas. Pero Ricardo en [...]
Somerset Geology Group Meeting
I have been asked to publicise a meeting of the Somerset Geology Group to which anyone with an interest in Somerset geology is welcome.
This is the sort of thing that this [...]
The Pas de l'Ours landslide: a very large and potentially-problematic actively-moving rockslide in the Queyras Valley of
Almost 70 percentage of the earth surface is covered by the vegetation and it is the first to encounter the energy (sun). Vegetation is important for the earth ecosystem, understanding their behavior is [...]