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Monday, 21 July 2014

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How Does Nature Carve Sandstone Pillars and Arches? 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:53:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 FR,IT,US,DE,
smithsonianmag.com Some of the most stunning structural feats aren’t built by architects or sculpted by artists. From Bryce Canyon to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains of central Europe, sandstone arches, alcoves, and pillars around the globe look strikingly similar to the same features in manmade architecture. So, how does nature do it? READ

Rep. Kirkpatrick calls for permanent ban on new uranium mining near Grand Canyon 

Arizona Geology [22:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info
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U.S. Representative Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ, 1st Congressional district) tweeted this morning "Will you help me call for a permanent ban on new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon?" http://action.kirkpatrickforarizona.com/page/s/grand-canyon … … #AZ01 The link takes you to a re-election campaign website which shows a picture of the Grand Canyon [right] and says "Uranium mining is a real

Museum of Western Colorado Unearths a Jurassic Record-Breaker 

Laelaps [21:30:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Jurassic; US
Apatosaurus was an enormous dinosaur. That’s something easily said, but can’t be understood without spending time in the

DIARIO DE LA PATERNIDAD RESPONSABLE (XX) Comunicación 

episcophagus [20:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info
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El fruto de mis desvelos cumple 14 años, y ya estoy en esa fase tan temida al ver acercarse la adolescencia de tu retoño: la dificultad de la comunicación. Dado que nuestro hijo es de natural hablador, [...]

Mike Taylor’s ESOF2014 talk: should science always be open? 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [20:13:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 DK
As recently noted, it was my pleasure and privilege on 25 June to give a talk at the ESOF2014 conference in Copenhagen (the EuroScience Open Forum). My talk was one of four, followed by a panel discussion, in [...]

Margarine mountain-building 

Earth Learning Idea [16:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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Have you tried making mountains every time you make a sandwich? Try this ELI 'Margarine mountain-building'  The activity uses materials that pupils use every day to remind them how folds and mountain belts [...]

The Search for Ithaca 

GeoSphere [15:52:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 US,GR
This post unifies two of my absolutely favourite topics: geology and classical Greek history. I have always had a soft spot for the classics. In fact, when I started my undergrad I was planning on... [[ This [...]

July 21, 2014 

Geology.com News [13:40:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US,CN
Training Volcano Scientists United States Geological Survey Buy-Out for the Maryland Landslide Properties ? WUSA Idaho’s First Commercial Natural Gas Well KTVB.com Natural Gas Boom Hasn’t Made US [...]

Dramatic Rig Count Trends 

Geology.com News [13:33:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
The Energy Information Administration has published a graph showing trends of the Baker Hughes Rig Count between 1990 and

(Near) Garden of the Gods Reprise: Jackson Falls 

Rosetta Stones [12:28:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 US
Remember when we visited the Shrooms of the Gods at Garden of the Gods? That’s not the only wondrous place formed by the Pounds Sandstone. Reader Heliconia got to visit the area in early... -- Read more [...]

Infotag an den Saurierfährten 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [10:50:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info

 DE
Die Dinosaurierfährten von Bad Essen-Barkhausen sind das wohl bekannteste Naturdenkmal im

I'm Sorry, This Trench is Full; Those Rocks Will Have to Go Elsewhere 

Geotripper [08:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (651 visits) info
category→sports
 CA,US,
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Looking south from Hurricane Ridge into the heart of Olympic National Park There will be few detailed blogs these next few weeks; I'm on the road leading our Canada/Pacific Northwest field class, and I will [...]

Iron Flows and Camera Blows 

Wooster Geologists [06:31:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 US
Guest Bloggers:  Sarah McGrath (’17) and Chloe Wallace (’17), both members of Team Utah 2014   EPHRAIM, UTAH — No longer rookie bloggers Chloe and Sarah here, coming at you from the [...]

California Mine Closure 

I think mining [06:06:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info

 CA,US
The most confident fellow in the meeting was the specialist in permitting from Toronto. He was old, like me, and in total command of his subject. He reminded us: “California is both the most difficult and [...]

July 22, 2014 

Geology.com News [05:26:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (640 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US,NZ,SL
Exploring for Diamonds in Sierra Leone Virtual Strategy Los Angeles River: From Concrete Ditch to Urban Oasis National Geographic Summer Program Introduces High Schoolers to Geoscience The Herald-Sun [...]

Research cruise on Beaver Lake 

Seismos [04:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
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Beaver Lake in NW Arkansas has 480 miles of shoreline along the flooded White River valley, much of it with important geological exposures. Our first exploration trip logged 700 high resolution scaled [...]

Latest M 3.0 Duncan aftershock close to New Mexico border 

Arizona Geology [02:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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I seem to have missed another magnitude 3.0 aftershock last Thursday from the June 28 magnitude 5.2 Duncan earthquake. This latest event occurred at 2:12 am, and was almost on the New Mexico border, further [...]

As far as the moral high-ground is concerned... 

Through the Sandglass [21:17:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
...the earth is flat. [sorry, just watched the evening news, couldn't help

Monday Geology Picture(s): Rocks Flanking the Entrance to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum 

Georneys [20:50:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
category→science_technology
 GB
My apologies for the light blogging recently. I was traveling in the US for three weeks, and now I am traveling for work for 6 weeks. I will do my best to blog when I can, but blogging may continue to be light [...]

View From an Iceberg 

State of the Planet [18:13:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info

 US
The science goal for today is to complete 8 CTD casts. We load into our vessel, a Poca 500GR. We have discussed a 6 to 8 hour window of boat time with Gabriel the captain and Magnus our navigator and stocked [...]

NRW-Bodenschutzpreis 2014 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [16:07:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info

 DE
Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30. Juli 2014 für den mit 100.000

Sobre la validez de una tortuga egipcia en la 15 edición del congreso Gondwana 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [15:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Paleogene; ES,DE
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Como ya se ha comentado, durante la pasada semana se celebró en Madrid el congreso internacional Gondwana 15. Continuamos con alguno de los trabajos sobre paleontología de vertebrados defendidos en dicha [...]

Abandoned Mine and Quarry Deaths Down in 2013 

Geology.com News [13:38:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
category→law_crime
 US
Since 2001 the number of people killed in the United States by abandoned mine and quarry accidents has been between 20 and 30 per year. During the last three years the number of deaths has declined. Deaths [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Entering a frozen world 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
category→science_technology
 RU
Dmitry Vlasov, a PhD Student and junior scientist from Lomonosov Moscow State University, brings us this week’s Imaggeo on Mondays. He shares his experience of taking part in a student scientific society [...]

Maoxian County landslide: a dramatic video of a fatal rockslide 

The Landslide Blog [11:57:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 CN
On Thursday a rockslide occurred in Maoxian County in Sichuan Province, China. The terrifying moments of the landslide were captured on a dashboard

Science snap (#31): Mammatus clouds 

Between a Rock and a Hard Place [10:00:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
category→science_technology
 GB,US
After all the thunderous weather this weekend and being British, I thought I’d do a weather themed science snap. Don’t bolt yet; it’s a volcanic-weather themed! This is a picture of mammatus clouds [...]

Tortugas pleurodiras de Mali en la 15 edición del congreso Gondwana 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
category→science_technology
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Entre los días 14 y 18 de Julio, Madrid ha sido la sede del congreso internacional Gondwana 15. Aunque la paleontología, y más concretamente la de vertebrados, ha estado escasamente representada, un grupo [...]

Oncolites and Kill Sites 

Wooster Geologists [06:27:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info

 US
Guest Bloggers:  Sarah McGrath (’17) and Chloe Wallace (’17), both members of Team Utah 2014   EPHRAIM, UTAH –  Rookie bloggers, Sarah and Chloe, coming at you from beautiful Ephraim, [...]

Pteranodon Flying Reptile Stamp 

Louisville Area Fossils [05:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
category→recreation
 IT,SM
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Here is a picture of the Pteranodon flying reptile stamp. It was issued in 1965 by the small republic of San Marino (located on the Italian peninsula). It had a value of 3 lire but the country now uses the [...]

The Only Thing More Amazing Than The Moonwalk 45 years Ago Tonight 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [04:38:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 PH
Exactly 45 years ago tonight, everyone who could see a TV, was in front of one. The clip below is the actual coverage from CBS News that evening. You can actually watch all of the Moonwalk online, and if you [...]

Large drilling program announced for St. John's CO2-helium field 

Arizona Geology [04:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
category→business
 US
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A Kinder Morgan  representative told the Arizona Oil & Gas Conservation Commission on Friday that the company is on track to complete their current evaluation drilling in the St. John's, Arizona carbon [...]

Dinosaurs of the British Isles: the Book 

Paleoexhibit [02:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (9 visits) info
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For those of you who were wondering why I never completed my series on British dinosaurs on paleoexhibit, stopping midway through the theropods, here is the reason: the material has been used as a starting [...]
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