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Monday, 17 June 2019

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The Europe plumes are an absolute mess 

Ontario-geofish [00:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (625 visits) info
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It's neat that all the heat energy for Europe and the UK are in these plumes.  But what a mess!  In the old days when the Gulf Stream was a thing, the plumes would go straight to the UK, bringing lots of warmth.  But now, who knows? The UK tabloids keep predicting a huge heat wave, and the next day they forget about it.  No heat wave coming, sorry boys.  I hope you get July, at

Student projects 

polar soils blog [18:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (570 visits) info
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We have been at the research station for over a week now, and we only have a couple more days left before it's time for us to leave. The students have been making good progress on their research projects, and here's a bit about what some of the teams are working on:Deauna and Jeremy are studying the impacts of human foot traffic on soil water and therefore the organisms that live in the soil. There has been increasing tourism in this area, which means more hikers and more traffic on trails (and [...]

3.000.000 di grazie! 

Theropoda [18:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (568 visits) info
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Il contatore delle visualizzazioni di blogger mi segnala che il blog ha appena superato 3 milioni di visualizzazioni totali! Non male per un blog nerd scritto in italiano :-) Grazie a tutti i lettori.

Sangay stößt Vulkanasche aus 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [09:11:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (298 visits) info
In Ecuador ist der Vulkan Sangay weiter aktiv und verstärkte seine explosiven Eruptionen in den letzten Stunden. Das VAAC registrierte seit gestern mehrere Eruptionen. Sie ließen Vulkanasche bis auf einer [...]

New group paper: Liquid water on Mars less than 227 million years ago 

Earth & Solar System [17:40:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
Dr Martin Guitreau, who was based in the SEES Isotope group, has prepared this blog post about his new research paper. ————————————- Two researchers from the University of Manchester [...]

Supersaurus, Ultrasaurus and Dystylosaurus in 2019, part 3: the material of Supersaurus 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [23:21:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
Having surveyed what we know from the published literature about Jensen’s Big Three sauropods, and what Matt and I concluded about its big cervical BYU 9024, and having thought a bit more about the size of [...]

Portugal é o 16º país com mais cientistas por habitante 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [12:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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Portugal tem 3799 investigadores por cada milhão de habitantes, o que o faz o 16º país com mais investigadores por habitante, à frente de países como a Alemanha, China, França, Holanda e Espanha. Em [...]

A major Precambrian impact in Scotland 

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [12:18:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
Note: Earth-Pages will be closing as of early July, but will continue in another form at Earth-logs The northwest of Scotland has been a magnet to geologists for more than a century. It is easily accessed, has [...]

How Energy Choices After Fukushima Impacted Human Health and the Environment 

State of the Planet [16:52:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (57 visits) info
A new paper examines CO2 emissions and mortality rates after Japan and Germany shifted away from nuclear

Artist M.C. Escher and his Crystal-inspired Artwork 

History of geology [11:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (18 visits) info
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“There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just “are” – they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do [...]

The life of a major ice advance 

Ontario-geofish [12:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (500 visits) info
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This snow will eventually melt away.  In a major ice advance it won't, and then it will build up. We are going into a major ice age cycle.  Lucky for us, the land is still depressed from the last one, so [...]

3. Juli, 2019, 18:00 Uhr: Korallen von Rußbach und Gosau 

Fachgruppe Mineralogie & Geologie Dresden [09:13:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (271 visits) info
Buchvorstellung: Löser, Heinrich & Schuster, 2019. Korallen von Rußbach und Gosau (Coniac-Santon; Österreich). CPress Verlag Dresden, 367

Lista de dinossauros de Portugal 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [16:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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Lista de dinossauros de PortugalOrnithischia Trimucrodon cuneatus Thulborn, 1973 Taveirosaurus costai Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell, 1991 Miragaia longicollum Mateus et al., 2009 ?Dacentrurus armatus Owen, [...]

Los mundos prehistóricos de Brett Booth 

Koprolitos [11:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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Dibujante de cómics y paleoartista consumado que colabora periódicamente en diversas publicaciones, entre las influencias de Brett Booth, como el mismo confiesa en esta entrevista, destaca Gregory S. [...]

Quantos dinossauros existiram? 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [16:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Quantos dinossauros existiram? Parece uma pergunta simples mas a resposta é bem mais complicada. Já foram reconhecidas cerca de 1500 espécies de dinossauros mesozoicos e actualmente existem cerca de 10.000 [...]

Earth-pages is closing soon 

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [19:02:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
Dear Earth-pages readers, It is almost two decades since I was invited to write a regular series of articles on developments in the geosciences at Earth-pages. The site’s archives comprise more than 1200 of [...]

Longyan City: a dramatic landslide in deeply weathered soil 

The Landslide Blog [08:11:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
On 13th June 2019 a strong rainstorm struck Longyan City in Fujian province, southern China, triggering a major landslide that was captured on CCTV. The post Longyan City: a dramatic landslide in deeply [...]

We, Them, and the American Dream 

State of the Planet [14:35:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
We need a balance between community and individual, local and global, public and
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