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Friday, 22 March 2019
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New Cambrian explosion site
A New Cambrian Explosion Site in China The Guardian reports HERE that a site with beautifully preserved fossils dated at 518 million years BP has been found in Hubei province in Central China. This is 10 million years older than the Burgess Shale site in Canada. And pictures suggest it is easier to get to than the mountain-girt Canadian site. Palaeontologists digging on the banks of the Danshui river, Hubei province, China. Photograph: Dong King Fu / Science / AAAS. Note the bridge in [...]Exploring Mercury in a New Book
Scientists from NASA’s MESSENGER mission share some of its top discoveries — and lingering mysteries — in a newFriday fauxld: concentric weathering rinds
Here’s a deceptive Friday “faux”ld I saw last week on the South Page Valley Road whilst learning about the Martinsburg Formation outcrops there: Looks like an isoclinal fold in this slab of siltstone, [...]Mayotte: Neue Studie zur submarinen Eruption
Im vergangenen Jahr wurde die Insel Mayotte von mehreren starken Erdbebenschwärmen heimgesucht. Der stärkste Schwarm ereignete sich im Mai. Mehrere Erdbeben hatten Magnituden über 4. Einige Erdstöße [...]Walking around the mounted skeleton of Apatosaurus louisae
In case you haven’t gotten to do this, or need a refresher, or just want a little more Apatosaurus in your life. And honestly, who doesn’t? As with the previous Diplodocus walk-around, there’s no [...]Fossil Layers
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Accessibility at the General Assembly 2019
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Uno dei primi esemplari di T. rex, AMNH 5027 nel 1960 (fonte) Tyrannosaurus rex è sicuramente il dinosauro più famoso, chiacchierato e abusato. Le enormi dimensioni che questo theropode raggiungeva da [...]Mosambik: Lage nach Sturm desaströs
Nach dem tropischen Wirbelsturm Idai, ist die Lage im ostafrikanischen Mosambik noch desaströser als befürchtet. In der Region um Beira wurde praktische jedes Gebäude stark beschädigt, oder zerstört. Im [...]Water and Sustainable Development – 6th GfGD Annual Conference Event Report
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