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Friday, 12 January 2018
The next Iberfault meeting will be held in Alicante, Spain, from 11-13 June, 2018. After the meeting, Pablo Silva and Jorge Giner will lead a field trip to see the geological effects of the Estubeny and Tavernes historical earthquakes. Important Dates 31 January 2018: Deadline for receipt of extended abstracts 9 April 2018: Deadline for … Continue reading "Iberfault 2018 meeting: 11-13 June, 2018, Alicante"
Yesterday (11-January-2018) at 09:46 and 09:50 UTC two strong earthquakes took place around 780 km deep south west of Iceland. The earlier earthquake had a magnitude of Mw5,4 (EMSC information here) and the second earthquake had a magnitude of mb4,9 … Continue reading →
The new year found me once again on the White Continent! I agreed to serve as a geologic lecturer with Abercrombie and Kent on the ship, Le Lyrial. She is a beautiful vessel only 3 years old and taking the [...]
Veränderte Regenfälle als Folge der globalen Erwärmung werden das
Risiko von Überschwemmungen an Flüssen vielerorts stark erhöhen. Schon
heute gehören derartige Fluten zu den häufigsten und [...]
Debris Flows - a Classic Article
There has been a lot about mud slides and debris flows in California lately.
HERE is a wonderful essay from the New Yorker, written in 1988 by John McPhee, about the [...]
Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs?!
In this podcast a physicist from Harvard, Lisa Randall, speculates whether the solar system, as it oscillates around the centre of the galaxy, passed through a plane of [...]
If you’re just joining us on our slightly nauseating journey through the wonders of Medieval medicine, you may want to check out the first blog in this series. If you’re already on board, I promised you [...]
Der Inselvulkan Kadovar (PNG) eruptiert gewaltig. Neue Fotos zeigen kraftvolle vulcanianische Eruptionen, die tatsächlich vom Meerwasser verstärkt werden könnten, welches durch einen Riss in der [...]
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The thick packs of ice that pepper high peak of the world's mountains and stretch far across the poles make an unusual time capsule. As it forms, air bubbles are trapped in the ice, allowing scientists to peer [...]
Der Vulkan Nevados de Chillan liegt in Chile und sorgt weiterhin für Schlagzeilen. SERNAGEOMIN berichtet von einem kleinen Lavadom, der sich aus einer Spalte im Kraterboden drückt. Die Spalte wurde zum [...]
Jahrtausende alte Glasschwämme erweisen sich wieder mal als aufschlussreiches Klimaarchiv
Bereits vor mehr als 600 Millionen Jahren lebten die ersten
Glasschwämme in den Meeren der Erde. Sie [...]
I'm continuing my search through the archives of ten years of geoblogging, and posting some of my favorites. I've been at Modesto Junior College for nearly thirty years, but I grew up in Southern California [...]
Ein Forscherteam der Universität Utrecht unter der Leitung von
Timo van Eldijk und Bas van de Schootbrugge entdeckte in einem Bohrkern
aus Norddeutschland in Zusammenarbeit mit Kollegen aus den USA und
[...]
In 1887, Florentino Ameghino, the “father of Argentinian Palaeontology”, described a large, toothless jaw from the Miocene of the Province of Santa Cruz, naming it Phorusrhacos longissimus and assigning it [...]
El pasado miércoles día 10 de enero se inauguró la tercera fase de la remodelación del Museo Paleontológico de Castilla-La Mancha (MUPA) en Cuenca. La ceremonia contó con la presencia del presidente de [...]
"Una aventura de 490 millones de años de elaboración""¡Dra. Sattler, Dr. Grant, bienvenidos al Parque Cámbrico!""¿No hay mucho aquí, eh?"Fantástico""Nop. Hemos ahorrado mucho en gastos""Good Bear [...]
This post started out as a comment on this thread, kicked off by Dale McInnes, in which Mike Habib got into a discussion with Mike Taylor about the max size of sauropods. Stand by for some arm-waving. All the [...]
In keeping with the Arizonarific theme of this week’s posts (thanks to my participation in the 2018 Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum), I thought I would wrap up my ‘geology of the Phoenix area‘ [...]
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