I don’t know what’s wrong with the governmental insitutions in Germany/Berlin: They have this law, that all the geodata are somehow under an open license but to me it’s always a little hard [...]
Two aftershocks with magnitudes over 3.0 hit the Duncan area on Saturday, a week after the 5.3 main shock occurred.
A magnitude 3.2 event hit at 12:30 pm, followed by a magnitude 3.5 shock at 9:24 pm. [...]
Perché le vertebre
dorsali di Spinosaurus hanno lunghezza comparabili a quelle
dei grandi tyrannosauridi e carcharodontosauridi, mentre le faccette
articolari e gli archi neurali sono marcatamente più [...]
Well, we voted for more restrictions on useful pesticides. The dirty secret of organic farming is that it only works for a nice plot in the middle of regular farms. The measured pesticide residue is higher [...]
“This satellite image shows lava lakes and gas plumes from Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo Volcanoes. Both are located just north of the Congolese city of Goma, near the border with Rwanda.” Quoted from [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [13:00:00]
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Los boxeadores suelen tener nombres sonoros para identificarlos, los que tengan una cierta edad recordarán al Tigre de Cestona, el famoso Urtain. No es un boxeador, pero en Zaragoza tenemos al Tiburón del [...]
My last few posts have been about finding some quiet corners in one of our busier national parks, the one at Zion Canyon. Sometimes one finds solitude by following popular trails at less popular hours, or by [...]
We were up a week and the main theme was Blueberries!
Every morning was the same: I wanna go picking! Oh jeez, I would say. Then the wife would steal the dog and go up the back. Of course, to save [...]
The US Bureau of
Land Management increased its fees on unpatented mining claims, mill sites and tunnel sites on
federal public lands by about 10%, effective June 30, 2014, according to a story on Mineweb.com.
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It seems as there is a bit of excitement here each and every day.
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In the Company of Plants and Rocks [16:54:00]
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This is my monthly tree-following report. June was all about cotton, specifically the cotton attached to seeds of cottonwoods -- or “cotton trees” as they used to be called, back in the old [...]
Guest post by Jared Rennie, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, North Carolina on behalf of the databank working group of the International Surface Temperature Initiative In the 21st Century, [...]
Corundum Ax: The Ultimate Ancient WeaponBBC Selling U.S. Natural Gas to IndonesiaPlatts Alaska’s Big LNG ProjectAlaska Dispatch Will Hawaii Finally Become Aggressive with Geothermal ?Houston Chronicle [...]
LNG or liquefied natural gas is natural gas that has been temporarily converted into a liquid. This is done to save space – 610 cubic feet of natural gas can be converted into a single cubic foot of LNG. [...]
Up at the cottage we have intermittent wireless internet, so I don't do much. I'm glad when nothing big happens.
The only big news is a new Science paper that purports to explain everything. This was [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Another fossil I acquired from the trade that netted me some ex Rutgers Museum of Geology material are these Pentamerella arata from the Schoharie Formation (part of the Onondaga Limestone, lower Devonian) [...]
GUIYANG, CHINA — I find this karstic landscape enchanting. Photo taken at the