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Sunday, 23 March 2014

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Major landslide in the state of Washington, USA 

Geology in Motion [06:35:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (694 visits) info
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Oso, Washington, is at the marker. Arlington is tothe left, Darlington is to the right by the magnifier bar.The slide at Oso cut off Highway 530 betweenArlington an Darlington.Take I-5 north from Seattle about 50 miles through Everett toward Arlington, and turn east onto Highway 530, which takes you south of Mount Baker. Along this road is the small town of Oso, population about 200. At about 11:00 this morning, a massive slide of mud, rocks and trees travelled a mile down near Oso, taking down [...]

Life in a Harsh Environment: Spring Wildflowers in the Red Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern 

Geotripper [07:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (693 visits) info
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Ceanothus, Poppies, and Goldfields in the Red Hills area of the Sierra Nevada foothills. Welcome to the Red Hills "Area of Critical Environmental Concern", a 7,000 acre preserve in the Sierra Nevada foothills near the village of Chinese Camp. We paid a visit today to see what flowers were out and about in this horrific drought year when much of the state has received hardly a quarter of

Oso landslide in Washington State: three people killed and the river is blocked 

The Landslide Blog [08:38:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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A large landslide near Oso in Washington State, USA, yesterday has killed 3 people and left at least 5 seriously

Back from the mountains to OK earthquakes 

Ontario-geofish [00:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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I was out visiting beautiful Lake Louise, first real vacation since both the kids and the old company left my life.  Mostly I hang around the cottage, but the sister convinced us to go. Being surrounded by [...]

Carbon Dioxide Sequestration – Cedar Mesa Sandstone – Arizona 

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 Permian; US
“The potential role of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions from coal fired power plants and other industrial plants in global climate change is driving studies of sedimentary basins in Arizona for [...]

Eruption At Hekla? 

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Hekla is a volcano in southern Iceland that has erupted many times, most recently in 2000, 1991, 1981, 1980 and 1970. GPS and strain measurements there have gotten the attention of volcano

William Smith und der Versteinerte Code 

Geschichte der Geologie [22:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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"Ich spreche mit Dankbarkeit über die praktische Lektionen, die mir Mr. Smith erteilt hat. Als ich in seinen Fußstapfen, seine Karten in der Hand, durch Wiltshire und die Nachbar-Counties ging, wo er fast 30 [...]

Edinburgh: Old Town and older volcanoes 

Magma Cum Laude [22:15:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
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My PhD advisor relocated to Scotland last year, and I finally had a chance to visit her in Edinburgh. And wow, what a great place for a geologist to

Green Fracking? 

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National Geographic has an article titled: “Green Fracking? 5 Technologies for Cleaner Shale Energy”. It explains five methods that are being employed to reduce the environmental impact of [...]

The Fight Over LNG Exports? 

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Some environmentalists and some politicians do not favor quick approvals of export terminals on the U.S. eastern coast with the intent of supplying natural gas to Russia’s current

Carbon Balance of the Amazon? 

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“A new NASA-led study seven years in the making has confirmed that natural forests in the Amazon remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit, therefore reducing global warming. This [...]

More Tumbleweed Problems 

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Another Weather Channel video shows how thousands of tumbleweeds are piling up around homes and causing a disposal problem in

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Intensely bored bryozoan from the Upper Ordovician of Kentucky 

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Yes, yes, I’ve heard ALL the jokes about being bored, and even intensely bored. I learn to deal with it. This week we continue to highlight fossils collected during our productive expedition to the Upper [...]

Upstream Flooding Concerns After Washington Landslide 

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After a landslide blocked the north fork of the Stillaguamish River near Oso, Washington there is a concern of upstream flooding as water backs up above the slide debris and a downstream flooding concern if [...]

Private Funding for Science? 

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An article in the New York Times explores how billionaire supporters are funding many types of

Stormy weather 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [02:57:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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I woke this morning to the rocking and creaking of the ship which told me that the weather had again changed and that we were now experiencing rough [...]

Acorn atole -- not a convenience food 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [16:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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Coast live oak near San Luis Obispo, California.  Photo by Giovanni LoCascio, used with permission.The theme for March’s Berry Go Round is unusual edible plants, and all month I’ve had my ear to [...]

Soil and Tailings Strength: Not 5kPa nor 10 kPa as is the Directive 74 Mistake. 

I think mining [05:22:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
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Most engineers have no idea what the strength of a soil or tailings implies.  Let me write a little about the physicality of soil and tailings of a given strength. Tailings with a strength of 1 kPa is but a [...]

Frac Sand Production Keeps Rising 

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An estimated 32 million tons of frac sand was produced by United States quarries during 2013. That is over a 300% increase in production over the 2009 tonnage. Frac sand is used as a proppant in the hydraulic [...]

Globigerina Ooze from the H.M.S. Challenger Expedition ~ Not Moon Rocks 

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The H.M.S. Challenger (a British sailing vessel with an auxiliary motor) spent March 21, 1875, at latitude 7o45' N and longitude 144o20'  E, just to the west of the Caroline [...]

Fire Tornado in Colorado 

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 US
Several firefighters were doing a controlled burn in Colorado when a fire tornado erupted and stirred hundreds of small tumbleweeds into a swirling

Happy World Meteorological Day 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [21:36:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
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Before you say, that’s cool and move on, think about that for a second. WE CAN MEASURE WINDS FROM SPACE! We can also measure temperatures,  humidity, the amount of dust in the air, and even how stressed [...]

65 Years of Fracking 

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Most people think that hydraulic fracturing is a recently-invented technology. However, it has been around for 65 years. CNBC has an article about

NgomPol-in Capres : Strategi Pemilu 

Dogeng Geology [12:26:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info

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Strategi adalah pendekatan secara keseluruhan yang berkaitan dengan pelaksanaan gagasan, perencanaan, dan eksekusi sebuah aktivitas dalam kurun waktu tertentu. Nah kalau untuk pemilu saat ini ada dua tujuan [...]

Deadly Landslide in Washington 

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Three people were killed and at least eight were injured when a landslide crashed through six homes, blocked a road and formed a dam across the Stillaguamish

Meteotsunamis? 

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Most people know about tsunamis, but very few know about METEOtsunamis. They are not caused by earthquakes, not caused by tides and you can learn more about these large wave events in an Earth Magazine

Detailed seismic interpretation 

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