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Thursday, 27 March 2014
Earthquake activity in Hekla volcano continues
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:11:31]
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Today (27-March-2014) during the night three earthquakes took place in Hekla volcano. This were typical earthquakes and like those that have been taking place earlier in March. What this earthquake activity means I do not yet know. The … Continue reading
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ITVA Altlastensymposium 2014 in Fulda #1
Mente et Malleo [22:17:02]
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Cambrian; DE,RU
Letzte Woche hatte ich die Gelegenheit, am Altlastensymposium des ITVA in Fulda teilzunehmen. Fulda liegt ja nicht ganz so weit ab vom Schuss und die Barockstadt ist eh immer eine Reise wert. Einzig das Wetter lockte mehr in den Schlossgarten als in die Konferenzräume, aber dafür gibt es ja Pausen. Die Veranstaltung ging mit am Mittwoch Abend einem Keynote-Vortrag von Thomas Schmid, dem Präsidenten des Hessischen Landesamtes für Umwelt und Geologie, los, der uns bei Bier und Brezeln [...]
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50 Years On: The Great Alaska Earthquake
It was the afternoon of Good Friday, 27 March 1964, in most of Alaska when an enormous earthquake ripped the plate boundary off the southern coast over an area one-third the size of California. The shaking [...]“Spot the Rock” for Thursday, March 27, 2014
It’s Thursday, and that means “Spot the Rock”! Can any of you geo-sleuths tell us where thisEl XII EJIP ya va a empezar
WeBlog Aragosaurus [17:40:00]
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Daily Geology Photos – March 27
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 21 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos [...]Guest Post: Remembering When Mauna Loa Last Awoke: The Last Resort (Part 3)
And now, the exciting conclusion to Zahra Hirji’s retrospective on the 1984 eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa. Be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t! ———- [...]Se acerca la próxima excavación en Somosaguas
Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [15:52:00]
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ES,RU
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Living Dinosaurs Starter Than Your Average Bear (or Child)
Using the Aesop's Fable Paradigm to Investigate Causal Understanding of Water Displacement by New Caledonian Crows. 2014. Jelbert, S.A., et al. PLoS ONE 9(3): e92895. New Caledonian crows may understand how to [...]Aden Crater
Mountain Beltway [13:42:54]
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Quaternary; US
That’s Aden Crater, a Pleistocene shield volcano in southern New Mexico. Here’s what it looks like from above (Google Maps view): I also noted the position of two nearby maar craters: Kilbourne and [...]
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NSS to Purchase New River Cave
The NSS Cave and Karst Acquisition Fund voted to purchase New River Cave in Giles County,Uranium and Thorium of the Reading Prong
The Pennsylvania Geological Survey has revised and republished: “GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF URANIUM AND THORIUM IN THE READING PRONG OF BERKS, LEHIGH, AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA”. Quote: [...]Fieldwork in the US: A Map
fieldwork in 9 states Create your own visited map of The United States Short Geologist over at Accidental Remediation has started a new meme: US states you've done fieldwork in. She has excluded states where [...]Exhuming Mining Equipment at Bingham Canyon
Deseret News has an article about the work now being done to exhume the mining equipment buried by the 165 million ton landslide that occurred at the Bingham CanyonA New Dwarf Planet?
“Scientists using ground based observatories have discovered an object that is believed to have the most distant orbit found beyond the known edge of our solar system. Named 2012 VP113, the object is [...]Frederik Spindler’s wooly brachiosaur
Aitor Ederra drew my attention to this painting by Frederik Spindler: It’s briefly discussed in a blog-post on changing norms in palaeo-art. (I think the blog is Spindler’s, but I can’t find [...]Karte & Kompass | Wanderung + Workshop
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [11:15:33]
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Heike Tharun bietet Wanderungen im eigenen Tempo unter ihrer Leitung
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How best to test soil
Question: Are those over-the-counter soil tests any good? Answer: While using an over-the-counter soil test is much better than doing no soil test at all, it’s typically much more accurateLa tipografía dinosauriana de James Cain
Online/Networks the death of paid palaeo-art?
ART Evolved: Life's Time Capsule [06:00:00]
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I stumbled across the research and (modern) work of Jaron Lanier, and his views of the current centralizing of power and wealth as an accidental result of the Internet.I won't pretend to articulate it as well [...]
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3 sessions on paleoseismology and earthquake-triggered mass movements at 19th Int’l Sedimentological Congress
Paleoseismicity [03:10:47]
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Quaternary; CH
The 19th International Sedimentological Congress from 18 to 22 August 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland will see three sessions related to subaquatic paleoseismology and earthquake-triggered landslides and [...]
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Our slides
A large, deadly landslide in northern Washington has been making news. Smaller ones around here aren’t deadly, thank goodness, but they are sneaky and expensive and everywhere. This isn’t a [...]StereoVideo: Canal de video en Youtube para prácticas de Geología Estructural
Durante este curso un grupo de profesores de la Facultad de Geología de la UCM estamos realizando una serie de vídeos para la enseñanza de la utilización de la plantilla estereográfica en Geología [...]Detecting Density Anomalies
Gravity field surveying is a passive technique to detect gravity anomalies. Gravity is a global field that always points vertically down, with anomalies caused by very small variations in density of the [...]50th Anniversary of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake
Utah Geological Survey - blog [17:39:45]
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The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake happened 50 years ago today. It was the largest quake in U.S. history. Watch this interesting video by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Presenting at the Assembly: A quick ‘how to’ from the EGU
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [17:00:57]
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The schedule is out, presentation slots have been assigned and it’s time to start thinking about putting yours together. Whether you have an oral, poster or PICO slot, we have a suite of simple guidelines to [...]
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(36 visits) Despite Duskytail Darter Return, Lake Cumberland Levels to Rise
In a move surprising to some, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will raise levels at Kentucky’s Lake Cumberland. The move is in spite of a transition by the duskytail[...]The post Despite Duskytail Darter [...]People Power
Kate Ravilious Data gathering needn’t always involve expensive instruments or exotic fieldtrips. Here in resource strapped Nepal, seismologists are tapping into the power of local people to collect [...]Newest Grand Canyon Lecture Posted On You Tube
Peak Cavern Video
Caving News has a video that takes you into some of the remote portions of Peak Cavern near Derbyshire,More Geothermal Homes in Kansas
The Kansas Geological Survey reports that the number of homeowners in the state installing geothermal heating and cooling systems is on theNASA: Capturing an Asteroid?
“NASA is developing an Asteroid Redirect Mission — a first-ever mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a safe orbit of Earth’s moon for future exploration by astronauts in [...]Buried in a Mudslide!
Reader’s Digest has an article titled: “We Were Buried in a Mudslide” that tells the experience of people who lived in a Colorado neighborhood that was hit by damagingPermafrost Studies
“In the next 50 years, as arctic systems warm, the release of carbon and nitrogen in permafrost could greatly exacerbate the warming phenomenon. Thawing is impacting ecosystems on land and [...]An Asteroid with Rings??
“Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO’s La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow [...]Goede Vrijdag
Vraag aan elke aardbevingswetenschapper naar de dag waarop in 1964 Goede Vrijdag viel, hij/zij zal u weten te vertellen: 27 maart 1964, vandaag exact 50 jaar geleden. En dat heeft één goede [...]Geotalk: The mantle and models and measurements, oh my! Talking geophysics with Juan Carlos Afonso
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [11:10:04]
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AU
This week in Geotalk, we’re talking to Juan Carlos Afonso, a geophysicist from Macquarie University, Sydney. He explains how a holistic approach is crucial to understanding tectonic processes and how a [...]
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Icnitas de dinosaurio de Enciso en el último Zubía
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [09:00:30]
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El útimo número de Zubía, publicado oficialmente en octubre de 2013 pero presentado este mes (véase aquí y aquí), incluye dos trabajos que describen sendos yacimientos de icnitas de dinosaurio del [...]
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Echinoblog Travelog: Japan: the things I will miss.... Pt. 5 (final)
Elrathia kingii Trilobite
Louisville Area Fossils [04:32:00]
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The Long Arm of the Planktivore
The Cambrian oceans hosted a riot of evolutionary novelty. Over a seabead burrowed by penis worms and treadTop concepts:
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