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Saturday, 29 November 2025

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NOAA pulls out a plum 

Ontario-geofish [19:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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 They are proud of themselves, which is great.  They don't mention how they predicted a heavy hurricane season because of climate change.  I looked at the temperature of the Atlantic hurricane zone, and said 'nothing'.Hurricanes are creatures of physics.  They need hot water, and cold air to form the huge vortexes.  No heat energy was available this year, in the

FOSSILS, FISH AND FLAMING VOLCANOES: INTERIOR BC'S HISTORIC PAST 

ARCHEA [18:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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A Bird's Eye View of BC's InteriorOnce upon a geologic time—about 52 million years ago—British Columbia wasn’t the mountain-studded landscape we know today. Instead, imagine a steaming chain of tropical islands floating in a warm inland sea, alive with crocodiles, palm trees, and enough volcanic activity to make any self-respecting geologist swoon.Welcome to Eocene British Columbia—where

Hemiaster heberti Echinoid Fossils 

Louisville Area Fossils [13:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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This image is of Hemiaster heberti echinoid fossils. These animals existed in the Cretaceous Period. Fossils were found in Thebaid, Egypt. Picture taken at Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia Florence Italy [...]

Book Week 2025, Day 3: Dungeon delvers delight in Dr Dhrohlin’s Dictionary of Dinosaurs 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [11:44:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
This book is squarely at the intersection of being an objectively great thing to have in the world, and a subjectively great thing to have on my gaming shelf. I’ve been playing tabletop RPGs since I was 16, [...]

Landscapes: PIndari Glacier Trail 

Reporting on a Revolution [04:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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Every time I am dragging myself back on the last day of a tiring trek in the Himalaya, I curse and swear that I’ll never do this again. And yet, here I am, exploring the Pindari Glacier area in the Kumaon. [...]

Fractal dimensions or how to generalize geometries in Python and how it affects data 

Digital Geography [00:23:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
For todays 30dayMapChallenge: Process I was processing a coastline dataset for Norway, trying to find out about the fractal dimension. osmdata.openstreetmap.de has a nice extract of this here:… The post [...]

Super Hyped Solar Flares Actually Did Something 

Ontario-geofish [12:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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 You might remember the intense hype a while ago.  Turns out the flares hit the airplanes, although nobody specifically mentions it for some reason.  It's all 'solar radiation', as [...]

Even Steven to NA and Europe 

Ontario-geofish [11:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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 It's the about the same as yesterday.  The Blue Army continues to march down to us.It's so clear for NA that you can't see any internal structure.  You can see more with [...]

Crioceras 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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Here is a picture of a cephalopod Crioceras (d'Orbigny, 1842) fossil at Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia Florence Italy (Università degli Studi di Firenze) in August 2024.  The creature lived during [...]
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