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Saturday, 11 August 2018
Today (11-August-2018) there has been a earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes Peninsula close to Hengill volcano (but not in that volcano system). This earthquake swarm is currently ongoing and largest earthquake so far has had a magnitude of 2,6. The … Continue reading →
NEXT WEEKS EVENTS
13TH TO 19TH AUGUST 2018
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT FROM BRISTOL AND WEST COUNTRY GEOLOGY CALENDARS
MORE DETAILS CAN BE FOUND IN THE BRISTOL AND THE WEST COUNTRY CALENDARS AND ON THE WEB SITES OF THE RELEVANT SOCIETY OR ORGANISATION.
MENDIP HILLS AONB HAVE A SERIES OF EVENTS WHICH HAVE ONLY RECENTLY COME TO MY NOTICE. THEY CAN BE DISCOVERED HERE. I HAVE INSERTED SOME OF THEM BELOW. VISIT THE WEBSITE FOR BOOKING DETAILS.
MONDAY 13TH
Teme Valley Geological [...]
Anthropocene vs Meghalayan
You may have heard of the Anthropocene being proposed as a geological time period. But the IUGS (the International Union of Geological Sciences) is having none of that. They say we [...]
Correlating Landslides and Earthquakes in Cascadia
HERE is a longish article about how to date landslides and see whether the landslides are caused by earthquakes. And so far they have not found a landslide [...]
Down to Earth Extra - August
Nach der Erdbebenserie auf der indonesischen Insel Lombok, haben Forscher des USGS und der NASA Bodendeformation registriert. Sie untersuchten Satellitenbilder und stellten fest, dass sich der Boden nahe des [...]
First Animal Found in Ediacaran?
Stromatoveris psygmoglena is a soft bodied animal found in the Cambrian. Recently many well preserved examples have been found in China. The author of THIS ARTICLE examined [...]
Kilauea Eruption Slowing Down?
It might be - or perhaps not. Read the speculation HERE.
Lava weakly bubbles from Kīlauea’s fissure 8, a significant change from the voluminous lava fountains that had [...]
No sabemos muy bien por qué, pero el podcast de Koprolitos parece que está vivo. Nadie lo había pedido, pero en una arriesgada maniobra para acercar la paleontología de trazo gordo al gran público, [...]
Mecochirus longimanatus crustacean claw fossil found at Eichstätt, Germany. The fossil dates to the Jurassic Period.
Fossil on display at American Museum of Natural History in New York City,
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