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Sunday, 06 July 2014

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short announcement: Berlin geodata downloadable… 

Digital Geography [19:46:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (327 visits) info
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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 [...]

Aftershocks continue from Duncan M5.3 earthquake 

Arizona Geology [17:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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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.   [...]

Una vertebra di theropode dal Marocco risolve l'enigma proporzionale di Spinosaurus? 

Theropoda [16:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info

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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 [...]

Ontario state of fruit 

Ontario-geofish [14:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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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 [...]

Lava Lakes at Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo 

Geology.com News [13:48:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (51 visits) info
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“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 [...]

Pasen y Vean al Tiburón del Huerva 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [13:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
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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 [...]

The "Fingers" of Zion: Another Quiet Corner of a Crowded National Park 

Geotripper [09:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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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 [...]

Cottage Report - the first July week 

Ontario-geofish [03:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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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 [...]

BLM raises fees on mining claims and sites by 10%; Arizona claim numbers declining 

Arizona Geology [00:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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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. [...]

A Swell Time 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [18:42:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
It seems as there is a bit of excitement here each and every day. read

Cotton Trees 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [16:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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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 [...]

Release of the International Surface Temperature Initiative’s (ISTI’s) Global Land Surface Databank, an expanded set of fundamental surface temperature records 

Real Climate [16:05:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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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, [...]

July 6, 2014 

Geology.com News [13:50:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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 US,CA
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 [...]

What is LNG? 

Geology.com News [13:35:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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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. [...]

Oklahoma earthquakes - not much for the week 

Ontario-geofish [12:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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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 [...]

Pentamerella arata brachiopod from the Schoharie Formation 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
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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) [...]

The karst topography around Guiyang, China 

Wooster Geologists [02:14:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
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GUIYANG, CHINA — I find this karstic landscape enchanting. Photo taken at the
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