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Friday, 31 July 2020

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Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures - Mesa Verde National Park

The Geology P.A.G.E. [21:24:00]

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My next series of posts about the Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures will follow along on a birthday trip that we took back in March of 2019 hitting up some of the parks in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. You can find more Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures as well as my Geological State Symbols Across America series at my website Dinojim.com.Colorado State Geological symbols can also be [...]

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins: the first grand master of palaeoart

markwitton.com blog [19:58:00]

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Few of us need an introduction to the Crystal Palace dinosaur sculptures (here shown during construction in 1854), or their artist, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, but not many of us know much about Hawkins or his work beyond this one installation, thus overlooking a major contributor and pioneer in the early history of palaeoart. Image from the Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs blog. Most of us would agree that palaeoart history is marked by a few key figures that, for one reason or [...]

Map: The Deep Geological Cycle of Carbon

Reporting on a Revolution [19:19:00]

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When I was a kid not so long ago in geologic time, my understanding of how diamonds are created went something like this. In forests and swamps, large trees grew and died. The wood got buried under more wood [...]

L'evoluzione iconografica di T. rex

Theropoda [17:30:00]

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What controls the height of mountains?

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [17:13:25]

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Read about this at Earth-logs Maintenance of Earth-pages has stopped. If you wish to continue following reports on significant research developments in Earth science you can register as a follower of my new [...]

THE DUDLEY BUG

ARCHEA [15:00:00]

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Calymene blumenbachii, Theresa Paul Spink DunnA lovely example of the trilobite Calymene blumenbachii from outcrops in the UK. This wee rolled beauty is in the collections of Theresa Paul Spink Dunn. This [...]

THE MIGHTY MARINE REPTILES

ARCHEA [04:13:00]

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This well-preserved partial ichthyosaur was found in the Blue Lias shales by Lewis Winchester-Ellis in 2018. The vertebrae you see are from the tail section of this marine reptile.The find includes stomach [...]

A window into Late Triassic biodiversity.

Letters from Gondwana [17:53:58]

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The Ischigualasto Formation, formed along the western margin of Argentina during the breakup of Gondwana, represents one of the most continuous continental Triassic succesions in South America, and it is known [...]

A protein clue to H. antecessor’s role in human evolution

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [17:18:41]

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Geochemistry and the Ediacaran animals

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [17:11:54]

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La prehistopía de Pablo Lara

Koprolitos [11:16:00]

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Pablo Lara es comunicador visual e investigador cultural. Ha trabajado como paleoartista asociado del área de Paleontología de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional de Ecuador. Actualmente, está finalizando [...]

Cottage Report - July 29, 2020

Ontario-geofish [00:40:00]

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Perfect weather, and no bugs. I'm sitting before an empty lake. Apparently you can rent your cottage out for a huge amount, but nobody is doing. Who wants your cottage filled with covid?ps. from the [...]