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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Saturday, 01 August 2020
Soil microbes like bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes are important for many reasons. They help move nutrients to and from the soil. They help with plant growth. They even help make substances that hold soil particles in aggregates, which helps the stability of soil. These microbes are small but exist in large numbers in soil. Soil … Continue reading Why is testing for soil microbes important?
In the next couple of days I plan to post a geology guide to the Excelsior Pass Trail. The trailhead is near Nooksack Falls; the trail climbs out of the North Fork Nooksack valley to Excelsior Pass. The trail ascends through the Jurassic Wells Creek Volcanic Member of the Nooksack Formation; I wrote of them
This fine chart has always followed the world temps. Temps go up and water expands. La la.It has showed our little warm spell, and now is plunging. This month, the sea level has gone down, so I expect [...]
Uno dei motivi del grande successo di Dromaeosauridae è sicuramente la disparità dimensionale esistente tra le specie di questo gruppo, che permetteva loro di sfruttare una ampia gamma di ambienti e nicchie [...]
La rete è una enorme fonte di informazione scientifica. Tuttavia, l'informazione online non è tutta uguale. Il proliferare delle informazioni contraffatte (fake news) e della pseudo-scienza (che si atteggia, [...]
This is the bimonthly thread on climate solutions. Climate Science discussions should go
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My next post about the Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures continues the Spring Break trip of 2020 where we visited the Needles District of Canyonlands. On the same trip we hit up one of our last [...]
This large, showy bivalved arthropod is a Tuzoia sinesis (Pan, 1957) from Cambrian deposits of the Balang Formation. The Balang outcrops in beautiful Paiwu, northwestern Hunan Province in southern China. The [...]
This image shows a Maple seed fossil found in the Florissant Formation of Teller County, Colorado, USA. The field of view (FOV) is 10 mm. It dates to the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period.
Thanks to Kenny [...]
This month’s open thread for climate science issues. People might want to keep an eye on the Arctic sea
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Uncertainty. Tea leaves. Texture. Water. Sound. Temperature. Time. Scent. Color. Flavor. Transformation. Elements and sensations co-mingle. The constant remakings of our bodies, planet, the universe. We [...]
Part 1 of a 2 part series on our new study describing the most complete skeleton of an early echolocating whale, Ankylorhiza tiedemani. This first post covers the background and introduction to the taxonomy [...]
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