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Thursday, 24 April 2014

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export your qgis project to a webmap with qgis2leaf 

Digital Geography [23:22:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
It was just a small idea but I haven’t slept much since it came to my mind to build a plugin fo QGIS. It should create a basic webmap from your current layers without coding and with popup functionality and changeable basemaps using leaflet. Meet my new duaghter: qgis2leaf! idea of qgis2leaf When building a […] The post export your qgis project to a webmap with qgis2leaf appeared first on

An Ancient Landscape Beneath Greenland Ice 

Geology.com News [14:23:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
category→science_technology
 GL,US
“Glaciers are commonly thought to work like a belt sander. As they move over the land they scrape off everything — vegetation, soil, and even the top layer of bedrock. So scientists were greatly surprised to discover an ancient tundra landscape preserved under the Greenland Ice Sheet, below two miles of ice.” Quoted from The

Looking forward to EGU 2014 

Geology Jenga [09:00:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
category→religion
This time next week EGU 2014 I’ll be looking at a sea of posters and enjoying workshops, splinter sessions and talks galore and I literally can’t wait! You may have notice (and we apologise), Dan and I [...]

6.6 Magnitude Earthquake off British Columbia 

Geology.com News [14:25:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
category→science_technology
 CA
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Vancouver Island last night at about 8 PM local time. There were no initial reports of injuries. USGS summary of this

Deadly Impacts More Frequent than Previously Believed. 

Geology.com News [04:41:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
category→science_technology
About once every century an asteroid large enough to destroy a major city impacts Earth. Between 2000 and 2013 there were 26 atmospheric explosions that ranged between 1 and 600

How Dinosaur Teeth Traveled 

Laelaps [17:46:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
category→science_technology
Last summer, while spending a day with paleontologist Joe Peterson and his crew at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry,

One articulated Sauroposeidon to go, hold the perspective distortion, with a side of stinkin’ mammal 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [17:08:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
category→science_technology
Order up! Sauroposeidon is stitched together from orthographic views of the 3D photogrammetric models rendered in MeshLab. Greyed out bits of the vertebrae are actually missing–I used C8 to patch C7, C7 [...]

Spread your wings: Adopt a Butterfly at HMNS on May 10 

BEYONDbones [17:01:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
category→science_technology
The beauty of butterflies is undeniable. Whether you’re gazing at the brilliant hues of a Blue Morpho, taking in the incredible delicacy of Rice Paper butterflies as they flit about, or staring at an Owl [...]

Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [16:07:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
category→science_technology
 KM
Yesterday (23-April-2014) an earthquake swarm took place on the Reykjanes Ridge (GVP link here). The largest earthquake had the magnitude of 3,4 with the depth of 9,3 km. Earthquake swarm started following the [...]

Seasickness in Reverse! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [16:37:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
category→business
 JP,US
In the main entry hall to the JOIDES Resolution there is a large screen showing the weather patterns in the seas south of Japan. The winds are shown [...]

Earthquake rates inferred from active faults and geodynamics 

Paleoseismicity [04:30:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
category→science_technology
 IT
Vanja Kastelic and Michele M. C. Carafa (INGV, L’Aquila, Italy) recently published an article in the Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata (an international journal of Earth sciences) entitled [...]

Estinzioni di massa e grandi province magmatiche: nuove relazioni l'estinzione di fine Triassico e la provincia magmatica dell'Atlantico Centrale 

scienzeedintorni [11:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Paleogene,Triassic; GB,IT,LV,HK,US,ZM,FR,AT,KM,ML,MA,CH,,RU,FI
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Dal Permiano Superiore all'Eocene c'è sempre una stretta associazione temporale fra estinzioni di massa e la messa in posto di una Large Igneous Provinces (LIP). Il rapporto tra questi due eventi ha nella [...]

Where are the Ten Most Incredible Places You've Ever Stood? My Number 9: Frame Arch and the Delicate Arch Trail 

Geotripper [23:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
category→culture_politics
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It's the journey through the Ten Most Incredible Places I've Ever Stood! As I explained in the last post, the list is subjective, and everyone's list will be different. I'm pleased at the response of many of [...]

Geotalk: Steven Smith on fossil faults and fantastic faulting 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
category→science_technology
This week in Geotalk, we’re talking to Steven Smith, a Lecturer from the University of Otago. Steven takes us on an Earth-shaking journey, explaining how ancient faults reveal what’s happening under the [...]

La fauna de mamíferos del tránsito Mioceno-Plioceno en Mallorca 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [11:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Neogene; ES,GH,US,MX
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Nuestros aragosaureros Juan Rofes (UPV-EHU) y Gloria Cuenca Bescós (Universidad de Zaragoza) han colaborado en un artículo liderado por Pere Bover (IMEDEA-CSIC) que acaba de publicarse en la prestigiosa [...]

Daily Geology Photos – April 24 

Geology News [18:24:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
category→recreation
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 12 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos [...]

Martian Meteorites and the Martian Atmosphere 

Geology.com News [14:25:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
category→science_technology
“Geologists who analyzed 40 meteorites that fell to Earth from Mars unlocked secrets of the Martian atmosphere hidden in the chemical signatures of these ancient rocks. [...] The results will help guide [...]

Retro Future – Part 3 

Solscape [00:55:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
Zu einer Zeit, als die meisten US-Amerikaner noch kein Telefon besaßen, zeichnete SciFi-Künstler Frank R. Paul bereits Raumstationen, Roboter und Aliens.Große Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch seine [...]

Geologic investigation into fatal rock fall in Rockville risk remains high 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:03:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US,MY
sunews.net Residents living within high rock-fall-hazard zones in Rockville, Utah, face the possible consequences of a large rock fall similar to the fatal event that occurred last December. READ

How aspen use green ... or do they? 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
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Our aspen are starting to flower but are still leafless.  Doesn’t matter, they can photosynthesize anyway.New Under the Sun is hosting April’s Berry-Go-Round; the theme is plant color: [...]

Okama Crater Lake Known to Change Color 

Lake Scientist [21:05:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US,JP
Mount Zao in Japan is a popular destination for skiers and hikers year-round. During the winter, many come to see vertically piled heaps of snow that collect around the mountain.[...] The post Okama Crater [...]

100 Carat Vivid Yellow Diamond to be Sold 

Geology.com News [14:09:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
category→business
 CH
The Graff Vivid Yellow, a fancy diamond of just over 100 carats is going to be auctioned in Geneva. It is expected to sell for about $25

The End (2013) 

Koprolitos [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 FR
Este breve cortometraje dirigido por los animadores alemanes Bettina Gericke y Chris Meyer muestra diversas teorías sobre la extinción de los dinosaurios, desde la mano de Dios al impacto meteorítico, [...]

Oregon Landslide Database 

Geology.com News [04:43:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 US
“More than 46,000 known landslide locations are now included in a statewide database that helps increase Oregon’s understanding of where future landslides may

Fazieshandstück 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [19:00:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
Fazieshandstück, u.a. mit Siphonia sp. - Cenoman, oberes Cenoman (Dölzschen-Formation) - Ort: Brücke über das Seidewitztal (A17), Meusegast bei

“Spot the Rock” April 24, 2014 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:47:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
We’ve got another Google Maps edition of “Spot the Rock” for you geo friends this week. Each of these photos are from the same location, but at different zoom levels. Can you guess where this [...]

Detecting Radioactive Anomalies 

GeoMika [19:00:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
category→science_technology
The low penetrating power of alpha and beta particles make them unlikely to be detected during field surveys. Instead, most radiometric surveys concentrate on detecting gamma rays. The low attenuation rate of [...]

Happy Earth Day from the Philippine Sea! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [04:23:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info

 PH
I hope you all had an excellent Earth Day on April 22nd. Did you all hug a tree, ride a bike or read the Pale Blue Dot monologue by my main man Carl [...]

Fall-Winter GeoCorps Positions Posted May 1 

Geology.com News [14:34:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
The Fall-Winter 2014 GeoCorps positions will be posted 5/1/14. Applications will be accepted from that date until

Cremnoceramus waltersdorfensis (Andert) 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [15:07:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info

 CH
, - Turon, oberes Turon - unteres Coniac (Schrammstein-Formation, Brausnitzbach-Mergel) - Ort: Brausnitzbach, Lohmen (Sächsische

COMET+ Kick-Off Meeting 

Climate and Geohazards [19:11:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
category→science_technology
 GB
Over the next two days the Centre for the Observation and Monitoring of Earthquakes and Tectonics (COMET+), led by CGS academic Tim Wright, is having a kick-off meeting at Leeds. The meeting aims to update all [...]

Topos and Aerials with Property Boundaries 

Geology.com News [13:25:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
category→business
 US
MyTopo is now offering large-format topo maps, aerial photos and satellite images printed with property lines *. Now you can print customized maps and images with land parcels for most parts of the United [...]

Modelling the Vadose Zone…What fun! 

GeoSphere [15:13:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
category→science_technology
 JP
Sometimes our projects take stage and unexpected turns down pathways that we have no experience in whatsoever. My project on the input of Fukushima iodine-129 into groundwater has taken one of those... [[ [...]

Der Siegeszug des Schiefer Mustang 

Natursteine-Blog [11:09:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
Es ist lange kein Geheimnis mehr, dass die Begeisterung für Naturstein bei den Mitarbeitern von jonastone nicht nur rein geschäftlicher Natur ist, sondern sie auch privat begleitet. So haben einige [...]

National Weather Service Stresses Importance of Maintaining Weather Stations 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:24:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
category→health
 US
kutv.com High in the hills above the city of Alpine in Utah County is a critical piece of equipment that could save lives should a sudden flood occur. READ

Manganese Nodules as a Cover for Stealing a Russian Submarine 

Geology.com News [14:07:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 RU,
In the late 1960′s the Russians lost a submarine in the Pacific Ocean in water about 3 miles deep. They searched and searched but could not find it. A few months later the US Navy located the sub and [...]

Determining the Age of Antarctic Ice 

Geology.com News [04:51:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
category→science_technology
“A team of scientists, funded by the National Science Foundation, has successfully used a new technique to confirm the age of a 120,000-year-old sample of Antarctic ice. The new dating system is expected [...]

Landslide losses – raising the profile in the USA 

The Landslide Blog [12:44:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
Landslide losses in the USA have come into focus in light of the slides at Oso and Jackson Hole. At present, investment in national scale landslide programmes in the US is extraordinarily

Industries Sensitive to Natural Gas Prices 

Geology.com News [04:46:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
category→business
“Energy-intensive industries, including food, paper, bulk chemicals, glass, cement, iron and steel, and aluminum, are the industries that use the largest amount of energy per unit of output and are the [...]

Labels for climate data 

Real Climate [21:47:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
category→science_technology
“These results are quite strange”, my colleague told me. He analysed some of the recent climate model results from an experiment known by the cryptic name ‘CMIP5‘. It turned out that [...]

An Introduction to the Geology of Gold 

About Geology [19:50:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
category→science_technology
Nothing in geology excites the general public like gold. Geologists, too, have devoted a lot of attention to the details of its geochemistry and the many specific kinds of gold occurrences to be found out [...]

Among citizen scientists in southern Israel 

Wooster Geologists [18:13:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
category→science_technology
 KE,IL,JO
MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–Today Yoav Avni and I drove south to meet an enthusiastic group of naturalists in Arava of the Jordan Rift Valley. The group is led by Dr. Hanan Ginat and consisted of a [...]

It’s life, Charlie, but not as we know it – Charles Darwin and the search of early (Extraterrestrial) Life 

History of Geology [19:00:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
category→science_technology
 DE
In August 1881 the journal “Science” published an article with a letter exchange by two amateur geologist – British Charles R. Darwin and the German Otto Hahn- discussing the possibility of [...]

Unit Trains of Frac Sand 

Geology.com News [14:19:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
category→business
Producers of high purity silica sand used to ship a few cars of sand at a time to glass makers. Now they are loading unit trains of sand going to oil field service companies. Related: What is Frac

How Dinosaur Teeth Traveled 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:08:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
category→science_technology
The most well-traveled tooth? One dinosaur tooth’s journey to modern day—a fun read. phenomena.nationalgeographic.com Last summer, while spending a day with paleontologist Joe Peterson and his crew at [...]

Conviviendo con los Dinosaurios 

Geosfera [09:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
category→science_technology
 MX
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La visita de dos paleontólogos a clase es algo que no ocurre todos los días, y si además vienen acompañados de fósiles y pruebas relacionadas con los Dinosaurios, suele ser una jornada para recordar. Así [...]

Vancouver M6.6 earthquake and The Long March 

Ontario-geofish [12:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
category→science_technology
 CA,US
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Ha, I predicted this earthquake for last Christmas, although I thought the earthquakes were marching to the north, and not south. So, not much of a prediction... The 'Long March" is the natural [...]

An Arctic Ozone Hole? 

Geology.com News [13:56:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
category→science_technology
“Since the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, scientists, policymakers, and the public have wondered whether we might someday see a similarly extreme depletion of ozone over the Arctic.” Quoted [...]

I-80 Yesterday: Very Windy 

Looking for Detachment [04:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
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Looking from just south of the Jessup exit toward the Humboldt Sink, during a wild windstorm. The Humboldt Dike, a large gravel bar of Lake Lahontan more or less separating the Humboldt and Carson Sinks, [...]

Neuer Einstieg in den Karstwanderweg Südharz 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [11:11:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info
Das Deutsche Gipsmuseum und der Karstwanderweg e. V. weihen am

Seismic Hazard and Risk for Vancouver 

Ontario-geofish [13:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
category→science_technology
 CA,US
It occurred to me that Vancouverites might choke on their collective high fat and sugar breakfasts before their morning commute, when they read my 'predictions'.  This should not be the case.  Geologists [...]

Ilústranos... Stephanie Abramowicz 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
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Como siempre, seguimos acudiendo de forma religiosa a nuestra cita mensual con el mundo de la paleoilustración. Y puesto que desde Emily Willoughby no había vuelto a pasar una mujer por esta sección, es [...]

European Geosciences Union – General Assembly 2014 (Part 3) 

Geology for Global Development [11:00:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 AT
A couple of weeks ago we outlined the ways in which we will be participating in the EGU General Assembly taking place in Vienna next week.  We’re currently asking a few of the GfGD team who are [...]

Paranomotodon angustidens (Reuss) 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [14:59:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info

 DE,BE
, der am häufigsten zu findende Haifischzahn am Gamighübel - Cenoman, oberes Cenoman (Dölzschen-Formation) - Ort: Gamighübel,

CMNH DinoFest at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History April 25 &26 

Palaeoblog [20:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 US
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This Friday and Saturday DinoFest runs at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. There will be lots of kid and family-friendly dino-related events plus talks by: David Evans Steve Bissette Mark Goodwin [...]

Fracking for Oil in New Mexico 

Geology.com News [01:58:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info

 US
Although production levels are low compared to other states, an small oil and gas boom is underway in New

Oh, The Things You Can See From On High 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:15:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
category→science_technology
 KM,GR
I spent a little while looking at today’s images from NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites with their amazing MODIS imager that sends back true colour images from an altitude of around 700 km. Here are [...]

Restricted Area Five 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [20:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 Jurassic; GB,US,AU
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After 42 years and countless family photos, Blackgang Chine's much-loved 'Dinosaurland' is no more. The majority of the park's endearingly grotesque and climbable fibreglass creations have, alas, gone the way [...]

Moeldoko Mungkin Bukan Penggemar Jam Tangan 

Dogeng Geology [08:57:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info

 SG
Memperhatikan perilaku Moeldoko dalam menggunakan jam tangan cukup menarik. Apalagi saat ini media Singapore cukup usil melihat merek jam tangannya. Saya malah tertarik apa iya Pak Moeldoko seorang penggemar [...]
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