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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Friday, 14 June 2019
By Laura Szymanski, GSA Science Policy Fellow On 07 June 2019 the Hazards Caucus Alliance (HCA) held a Congressional briefing, Landslide science: nationwide risk reduction applications to inform Congress about landslide risk and mitigation efforts. This briefing was hosted by the Congressional Hazards Caucus Co-Chairs Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Rep.
On June 8, 2019, after five years of work, $125 million, and, I’m certain, myriad headaches, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History opened its completely renovated fossil hall, the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time. This post describes primarily what caught my eye on my first visit to this remarkable hall. Given that it houses over 700 fossils and presents some 75,000 words on its signage, I clearly missed a great deal and return visits are in order. At the [...]
Last weekend was the annual meeting of the eastern section of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. On Friday afternoon, we visited Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and my colleague Beth Doyle led a [...]
Parallel Roads of Glen Roy
A source has sent me a video, taken from a drone, of the Glen Roy area. You can download it from HERE. Unfortunately it will not play on the blog. It would benefit from editing [...]
Carlisle, PA – Our geochemistry research team spent this week at Dickinson College. They worked closely with Dr. Ben Edwards and Rob Dean (technician) to learn how to use the instrument. As with any new [...]
A training course marked a major step in a project that will equip farmers with climate information to manage food production in times of drought and extreme
Paco Alcázar es un dibujante nacido en Cádiz en 1970, aunque creció en Barcelona. Comenzó a colaborar en fanzines a principios de los 90 con algunas historietas de humor negro que acabaron recopiladas [...]
JENEWA – Kepala Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG), Prof. Dwikorta Karnawati dipilih sebagai anggota dewan eksekutif (executive council) organisasi meteorologi dunia atau World Meteorology [...]
Environmental implications of Pancheshwar dam in Uttarakhand (Central Himalaya), India.
A warning from earth scientists that sufficiently detailed studies of seismic risks and potential environmental [...]
Cretaceous Plant Material / Three Brothers Formation
Vancouver has a spectacular mix of mountains, lowlands and the deep blue Pacific. When we look to the North Shore, the backdrop is made more spectacular [...]
NEXT WEEKS EVENTS
17th to 23rd June 2019
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 [...]
This post was written by Prof. Grenville Turner FRS who set up the Isotope Group when he moved from Sheffield to Manchester in 1986. Grenville was one of the original UK Apollo sample and Luna sample Pricipal [...]
Note: Earth-Pages will be closing as of early July, but will continue in another form at Earth-logs About 39 thousand years ago all sign of the presence of Neanderthal bands in their extensive range across [...]
Beroun, Czech Republic — Today the International Bryozoology Association pre-conference field party visited a fascinating quarry near Chrtníky, Czech Republic. Ordovician diabase is mined here for road [...]
jules has taken up triathloning. I'm a rubbish swimmer so am not really tempted. The cycling and running bit would be ok but there's not much fun in doing a race where I start by half-drowning myself and [...]
Middle Campanian Plant Fossils / Cranberry Arms
Back in 1996, Vancouver Island local, Jim Bell was moving rocks with his excavator near the Cranberry Arms Pub as part of the Duke Point Highway construction. [...]
I’m proud to be an author with my two Spanish colleagues, Consuelo Sendino and Juan Luis Suárez Andrés, of a paper just out in the latest issue of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (we [...]
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