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Tuesday, 16 May 2017

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¡Toldo arriba! Comenzamos la excavación en #SOM17 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [23:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (48 visits) info
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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

No anchors, a needle on a string, we need thrusters! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [23:01:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (47 visits) info
If you want to approximate the difficulty of drill hole re-entry with the drill string you could try the following set up. Warning: You may have fun doing this and understand that this is only a model - A simplified version of the real challenge out at sea.  read more

Thermal Conductivity – Mon, May 15 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [20:59:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (47 visits) info
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 [...]

Dinos in Pop Culture - Animal Kingdom: Part 1 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [19:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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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 [...]

High Water Across the West: Honey Lake 

Looking for Detachment [17:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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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 [...]

Tremaster mirabilis! Five things I have learned about a Fantastic Starfish! 

Echinoblog [14:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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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 [...]

New Group Paper: Meteorites from the lunar highlands 

Earth & Solar System [14:27:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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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 [...]

Nova espécie de dinossauro aumenta a já inesperada diversidade de dinossauros da família do Diplodocus 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [13:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (57 visits) info
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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 [...]

See Naples and proceed with caution! 

Geology in the West Country [13:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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 [...]

Lava lamp earth 

Geology in the West Country [12:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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 [...]

Whales teeth 

Geology in the West Country [11:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (47 visits) info
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 [...]

"Core on Deck" - The Man behind the voice 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [05:02:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (48 visits) info
>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 [...]

Plants with no names, and other mysteries 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [20:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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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 [...]

Landscapes: Panchachuli Glacier And Lassar Yankti River Valley Kumaon Himalaya 

Reporting on a Revolution [18:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (53 visits) info
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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 [...]

Mining the Deep Seabed for Renewable Energy 

Mineral Law Blog [16:18:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (321 visits) info
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 [...]

New ransomware goes up the Microsoft chain - Fake News! 

Ontario-geofish [14:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (627 visits) info
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 [...]

Stellen Universität Würzburg 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [13:45:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (44 visits) info
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 [...]

New Madrid Fault Zone extends to the North 

Ontario-geofish [13:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (651 visits) info
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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 [...]

Plumas al viento (Charlie Charmer) (y II) 

Koprolitos [13:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (47 visits) info
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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 [...]

Street Meeting 

Geology in the West Country [12:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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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: an actively moving rockslide in the Queyras Valley of France 

The Landslide Blog [08:39:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (670 visits) info
The Pas de l'Ours landslide: a very large and potentially-problematic actively-moving rockslide in the Queyras Valley of

Vegetation Spectral Signature Cheat Sheet 

Grindgis [03:19:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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 [...]
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