Geology in the West Country [17:44:00]
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(152 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic,Carboniferous,Devonian; GB,US
2nd August - Great Tew Quarry Field tripled by Andy Swift Few places leftThis quarry, south of Banbury, Oxfordshire works the Lower Jurassic Marlstone Rock Bed for building stone. It is quite fossiliferous with ammonites, belemnites and bivalves. Contact the GA or leave a message on the GA phone and this will be answered when picked up. 19th - 22nd September - 4 day trip to the Isle of ManThe programme will include excursions to view to part of the Iapetus Suture, diverse Lower Palaeozoic [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:55:36]
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(146 visits) category→recreation US
It’s the start of another weekend. Do any of our geo friends have plans to get out into Utah’s Great Geological Outdoors? Cedar Breaks National Monument is always an interested place to visit, and it exhibits several awesome geologic sights. Check out this feature where Lance Weaver, one of our geologists at the Utah Geological
About 50 percent of the CO2 produced by human activity remains in the atmosphere, warming the planet. But scientists don’t know where and how oceans and plants have absorbed the rest of the manmade CO2. To [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:46:00]
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(135 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic,Triassic,Permian; ES,US,IT,AW,,GB,CA
Redbeds glow in the evening sun at Alcova Reservoir.Geologists are of two minds about Wyoming redbeds. Many consider them “perhaps the most striking sedimentary strata in the state” (e.g. Snoke 1993, [...]
After 8 long years of work, our Platecarpus tympaniticus specimen RMDRC 06-009 "Cap'n Chuck" is finally finished! These last few weeks of the project had been dedicated to finishing the details of the armature [...]
Members of the OpenTopography team are co-convening a session at the fall 2014 American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco:
AGU Session #3486: High-resolution topography for analyzing Earth-surface [...]
good4utah.com Good 4 Utah is celebrating Utah’s diverse and unique geologic history this summer. Kylie Bearse and photographer Gus Seashore are traveling to Utah’s famous landmarks, and a few spots you [...]
Today one of the students taking our Paleontological Field Methods course at NC State University went prospecting for the first time. As luck would have it, he found a new species of dinosaur… one of [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [06:31:08]
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(109 visits) DE
Das Eiszeitmuseum bietet einen Sommerworkshop: Preis: 10,00 € p. P.
WeBlog Aragosaurus [16:41:00]
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(104 visits) category→science_technology Cenozoic,Mesozoic,Paleozoic; US
Paleontologist, NDIC Department of Mineral Resources-North Dakota Geological Survey, Bismarck, North DakotaPosting Date: 31 July 2014Closing Date: 15 September 2014Salary: $5,625 – $7,083/month plus benefits [...]
SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [15:00:43]
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(101 visits) category→science_technology US
Question: With the lingering, severe drought in places like the Texas Panhandle and western Kansas, is the United States in for another Dust Bowl? Answer: In this article from CropQuest
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:23:02]
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(100 visits) category→science_technology
Today (31-July-2014) a minor earthquake swarm took place in Torfajökull volcano. This was a minor earthquake swarm and no earthquake did go above magnitude 3,0. Strongest magnitude of this earthquake swarm [...]
Back in the 1970's I used to run on the UCLA track near Sunset Boulevard. Two days ago, a 93-year-old water pipe and a 58-year-old pipe broke under Sunset Boulevard near the track, sending a pulsating geyser [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:45:06]
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(92 visits) category→science_technology US
By: Jessica J. Castleton, Ashley H. Elliot, and Greg N. McDonald The Copperton quadrangle, in the western part of the Salt Lake Valley, is expected to experience a significant population increase over the next [...]
A group of student researchers from colleges and universities across the United States are working this summer near Menomonie, Wisc. as part of a lake science program looking at algal[...]
The post Student [...]
EXPEDITION LIVE! [17:25:53]
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(80 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous; US
Its only been a few days since we set up camp in Utah and already great things are happening on this year’s expedition. We began by opening up three of the sites discovered last year, including two of [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [17:30:00]
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(67 visits) category→science_technology Paleogene; ES,IT,GB
Un buen amigo de Aragosaurus nos ha mandado una nota sobre un nuevo cangrejo del Eoceno de Huesca. Es un tema que no habíamos tratado en nuestra web, pero nunca es tarde para hacerlo. El nuevo cangrejo es [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:49:30]
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(139 visits) category→science_technology US
By: Greg N. McDonald and Richard E. Giraud This map presents a landslide inventory for the 2012 Seeley fire area, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah, at a scale of 1:24,000. The purposes of the map and [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:17:07]
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(135 visits) category→science_technology
Your filling the backyard pool for summer, and the kids are asking how long it will take to fill up. Now, you could just use simple math (using the gallons per minute you are adding to the pool divided by the [...]
The catastrophic Malin landslide in Pune, India yesterday probably killed over 100 people. The event appears to be a mudslide in deeply weathered soil, triggered by exceptional
Cottage Report - Cold
Here we are sitting on our dock in our winters. The past few days have been the weirdest weather I've ever seen. Each day we are bombarded by the Arctic Vortex, and it battles the [...]
Un campionario della disparità theropodiana mesozoica:
Carcharodontosaurus, Sinocalliopteryx e Ichthyornis.
(c) Davide Bonadonna
I grandi successi sono il prodotto di
una tendenza costante e [...]
Dinosaurs aren’t dead. Not completely. Birds carry on their Mesozoic legacy. But all the forms that inspire our
Geology.com News [08:10:59]
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(105 visits) category→science_technology RU,US,IN
Large Landslide Overruns Community in India Time Denali Duck-Billed Dino Tracks The Geological Society of America Large Rivers in U.S. are Becoming Less Acidic United States Geological Survey Will Fracking [...]
According to the Landslide Blog, this rockfall video was taken in Maoxian County in Sichuan Province of China on or around July 17, 2014. It shows a very dangerous rockfall event with people running from [...]
Geology for Global Development [11:00:27]
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(101 visits) category→science_technology TZ,KM
In our post yesterday I discussed the upcoming YES Congress and 25th Colloquium of African Geology in Dar es Salaam (1 – on the map), and introduced the way in which GfGD will be contributing. Following [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:12:18]
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Bei der Exkursion der 37. Tagung des AK Bergbaufolgen der
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [23:18:14]
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Regulars will remember that nearly two years ago, I reviewed a paper for the Royal Society’s journal Biology Letters, recommended acceptance with only trivial changes (as did both other reviewers) and [...]
El ilustrador alemán Hendrik Berends quiso homenajear con esta obra al movimiento Riot grrrl surgido en la década de los 90, así como al cómic Tank Girl, creado por los británicos Alan Martin, al guion, y [...]
Geosynthetics Mining Solutions is the first ever conference to address the topic of the use of geosynthetics in mining. InfoMine is organizing the conference which will take place in Vancouver on September [...]
Professor Petley, the author of the Landslide Blog, has an interesting discussion about a controversy in the geoengineering / geology community regarding the Oso landslide in Washington State. The Geotechnical [...]