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Tuesday, 22 July 2014
New Round Of Warnings For Mt Fuji
Volcano Science And News Blog [17:36:00]
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JP
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Hayward Baker Constructs Temporary Emergency Earth Retention for Landslide Repairs Near Train Tracks in Baltimore
Hayward Baker was among the contractors called in for emergency repairs to a failed retaining wall in Baltimore that destabilized a slope, causing a landslide that enveloped cars and threatened a railroad track below. The final episode of the slope failure was caught on video and showed several cars being swallowed. GeoPrac sponsor, Hayward Baker is currently on-site installing a temporary soldier pile lagging wall with tiebacks to facilitate the construction of a permanent wall. They are [...]Pedal Power: The Earth Institute and Climate Ride
Once again this year the Earth Institute is a beneficiary of Climate Ride, the national bike ride to raise charitable donations for and awareness about sustainability, active transportation, and environmental [...]Large Crinoid stems from the Onondoga Formation
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Devonian; US
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Mysterious World of Dinosaurs - Part 2
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [23:31:00]
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Triassic
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Are we going to have another Dust Bowl?
Question: As severe drought continues in places like the Texas Panhandle, western Kansas, and California, is the United States in danger of another Dust Bowl? Answer: We can expect moreMount Cook Rockfall
ASFE Changes Its Name to Geoprofessional Business Association
ASFE has been a fixture in the geoprofession since its inception in 1969. They are officially changing their name to the Geoprofessional Business Association to more accurately reflect what their role and [...]Iguanodon Dinosaur Stamp
Louisville Area Fossils [04:00:00]
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Jurassic; IT,SM,US
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2014 Survey Results: Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages, and Benefits
I think mining [18:49:50]
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Ordovician; CA
Just published by CostMine is the 2014 Survey Results – Canadian Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits. I will survey some of the data in this and future postings. First a look at average Canadian Mine [...]
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L'Orbita Eccentrica del Mondo Giurassico
La storia delle interazioni tra i media di massa e la paleontologia dei dinosauri ha un'origine antica. Fin da quando sono stati riconosciuti come resti fossili di creature estinte, i dinosauri hanno generato [...]Oso disaster had its roots in earlier landslides
The disastrous March 22 landslide that killed 43 people in the rural Washington state community of Oso involved the "remobilization" of a 2006 landslide on the same hillside, a new federally sponsored [...]Pleurodiras migrando a Europa en la 15 edición del congreso Gondwana
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:52:00]
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A Trinket from Majuba Hill
Benchmarking Time: DC is all about boundaries
Washington DC is an interesting city. When the original plans were being made in the 1780s and 1790s, they called for a 100-square-mile area to be allocated for the city, and George Washington (who was [...]Long awaited new description of Gephyrostegus in this issue of JVP
Why I hate Theropods [23:53:00]
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Carboniferous; US,GB
Jozef Klembara, Jennifer A. Clack, Andrew R. Milner & Marcello Ruta. 2014. Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902. Journal of [...]
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New paper alerts for 7-22-2014
Why I hate Theropods [13:59:00]
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Paleogene,Ordovician; GB,ES,US,CN,CA,CO,CU,IN,PE,PR,,NZ
Just pulling from my Scholar alerts to help find these papers later. Articles beyond the jump.AvesProvencher, Bond, Mallory (2014) Marine birds and plastic debris in Canada: a national synthesis, and a way [...]
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NOAA: Earth Had Its Hottest June On Record
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:26:28]
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From NOAA: “The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for June 2014 was the highest for June since record keeping began in 1880. It also marked the 38th consecutive June and 352nd [...]
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Lake Mead’s Water Levels Down 30 Feet Since February
Water levels at Lake Mead have dropped 30 feet since February 2014, according to the Weather Channel. The largest man-made reservoir in the United States now sits at just 39[...] The post Lake Mead’s [...]Training and Development Questionnaire
Geology for Global Development [19:01:27]
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Could you give us 5 minutes of your time this week? We’d really appreciate your help in completing this short questionnaire, helping us to understand requirements for future GfGD training and [...]
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Tödlicher Bergsturz in China (Video)
Letzten Donnerstag kam es in Sichuan, im Kreis Mào Xiàn zu einem dramatischen Bergsturz, bei dem mindestens 11 Menschen ums Leben kamen und rund 19 schwer verletzt wurden. Das Geschehen wurde von einer [...]POTD July 22, 2014: Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah
Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah Photographer: Don DeBlieux; © 2013 Dissolution of subsurface salt caused the collapse of the Salt Valley anticline, forming vertical fractures in the Jurassic-age [...]Erzurum: a landslide destroys an almost new ski jump facility in Turkey
Last Tuesday a landslide destroyed a 20 million Euro ski jumping facility in Erzurum, Turkey. The collapse was in part caught on aExtinction of The Saber-Toothed House-Cat (2010)
Cortometraje escrito y dirigido por Damon Wong y Dalila "Dee" Boyd, de la productora de animación Floating Pear Productions radicada en la ciudad de Providence (Rhode Island, Estados Unidos). Afirman que lo [...]Top concepts:
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