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Friday, 01 August 2014

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GeoSight: July 31, 2014 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:07:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info

 US
With another weekend on the horizon, maybe some of you are looking to visit one of Utah’s geothermal watering holes to soak and relax. So—do you have to travel all the way to Yellowstone, or can you find a beautiful hot spring right here in Utah? Check out our GeoSights interactive map HERE to find out

TRIPURA: Land of Water !!! 

Water and Megacities [15:09:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
category→science_technology
 IN
The name Tripura originated from ‘Twi’  meaning water and ‘Para’ meaning land. The indigenous population refer Tripura as Twipra, meaning land of water. Tripura was formerly a princely state that had a long list of kings stretching back into antiquity.  According to versions …Read more

Utah Geological Survey Geologist on the news tonight! 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:57:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info

 US
Tonight on the news! – Utah Geological Survey geologist Mark Milligan enlightens us about Dead Horse Point geology tonight on ABC 4 News. Make sure to tune in!   UGS geologist Mark Milligan [...]

Malin landslide in Pune: assorted news stories 

The Landslide Blog [10:53:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info

 IN
The media in India is providing extensive coverage of the Malin landslide in Pune, which is now known to have killed at least 56

Help the IVM-Fund replace monitoring equipment at the Santiaguito Observatory 

Magma Cum Laude [15:59:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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 GT
The IVM-Fund exists to assist volcano observatories with the smaller expenses that may not make it into a grant or a large instrumentation campaign, but which are nonetheless crucial to the day-to-day work of [...]

GSL teams up with GeoScienceWorld eBooks! 

Geological Society of London blog [13:19:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
category→business
Production staff at the Geological Society Publishing House were busy for the first half of 2014 helping GeoScienceWorld (GSW) launch their eBook Collections. The GeoScienceWorld eBook Collections, which went [...]

Bald neu im Sortiment: Kalkstein Donau-Fliesen 

Natursteine-Blog [16:43:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
Unser Sortiment bekommt bald Verstärkung in Form von neuen Kalksteinfliesen. Der sehr helle und einheitliche Naturstein mit dem Namen Donau wird im römischen Verband zu haben sein. Dank seiner [...]

August 1, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
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 US,PG
Exxon’s PNG LNG Plant Runs at Full Capacity Bloomberg.com ’Megalopolis’ in the USA’s Southeast by 2060 United States Geological Survey Insecticides Similar to Nicotine Widespread in Midwest [...]

GeoEd: Working together 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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When a geoscientist steps into a classroom, set to share their wonders of the Earth with a host of eager young minds, they are heading straight into unknown waters. Which students will rock the boat? What [...]

Proposed Alaska LNG Pipeline Route 

Geology.com News [08:05:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
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 US
The Alaska LNG Project LLC asked the Department of Energy to authorize the export of 20 million tons of LNG per year. Project participants include the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation plus [...]

Friday Rocks #22: Tonalite Mega-Boudin 

Up-section [14:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
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The large lensoidal feature in the middle of the photo is a Tonalite sill Mega-Boudin surrounded by

Cavernas y Cambio Climático global: una mirada al pasado. 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [13:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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 PT,ES,MX
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La Universidad de Cantabria organiza un curso de Verano en Ramales de la Victoria titulado Cavernas y Cambio Climático global: una mirada al pasado. El curso de 20 horas de duración empieza el próximo [...]

(Dis)Orientation week 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [12:50:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info

 JP
I got to my hotel in Yokohama after some 26 hours of air and ground travel only to discover that I'd arrived in Orlando, FL - or at least the Japanese [...]

Waiting for China’s Natural Gas Revolution 

Energy Policy Blog [10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (51 visits) info
China plans to significantly increase its natural gas consumption to help cut its appalling air pollution. But natural gas is still a small part of its energy mix. In addition, and to confound [...]

The Rockville Rockfall of Dec., 2013, the 5th Annual Bryce Canyon Geology Festival, and the Geology of the Cottonwood Canyon Road 

Earthly Musings [00:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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 Quaternary,Cretaceous,Jurassic,Triassic,Ordovician,Paleogene; US,NL
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The folks at Bryce Canyon really know how to celebrate the geology at their park! On July 25 and 26 of this year they held their 5th annual Geology Festival. I have participated as a speaker and/or [...]

Climate Change or Public Health: Which Matters More? 

State of the Planet [17:23:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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A new study by Earth Institute researchers suggests that talking about the human health impacts of air pollution related to burning fossil fuels might make a more convincing argument for action among [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: An Ordovician hardground with a bryozoan and borings — and an unexpected twist 

Wooster Geologists [07:50:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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 Ordovician; US
The view above, one quite familiar to me, is of a carbonate hardground from the Upper Ordovician Grant Lake Formation exposed near Washington, Mason County, Kentucky. We are looking directly at the bedding [...]

Friday fold: Contorted Rome Formation next to the Max Meadows Fault 

Mountain Beltway [14:58:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
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 Cambrian; IT,US
My student Mercer Parker shot this one over to me the other day: Click to enlarge Those are the slim strata of the Rome Formation (a.k.a. Shady*), strongly deformed in the region adjacent to the Max Meadows [...]

Coenites? coral from the Onondoga formation 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
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I found the plate shown below in a quarry south of Syracuse that exposes the Edgcliff member of the Onondoga formation (Devonian, Eifelian stage). It was the only piece I found with such densely packed corals. [...]

Tempo e topologia per la filogenesi di Theropoda 

Theropoda [21:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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 US
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Il nostro studio pubblicato ieri su Science (Lee et al. 2014) ha suscitato interesse e commenti. In questo post, ripropongo la filogenesi di Theropoda che risulta dall'analisi del dataset principale del [...]

That Such Places Exist Unsullied...I am Grateful 

Geotripper [07:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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Hanging out with Dino Day Camp! 

Daily Fossil [22:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
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 Ordovician; CA
Today I had a nice sit down with our Dino Day Camp coordinators, Maddy Jamieson and Rebecca Pedneault, to chat about how Dino Day Camp has gone this summer!For those of you who don't know, Dino Day Camp is a [...]

Deep Sea Plough 

State of the Planet [16:00:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
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Giant fleets the oceans trawl, Gasping fish they skywards haul. Not just critters do they move, But sediments they push and groove

CartoBokeh: Usefulness As A Fog Of War Technique In Cartography? 

Geological Musing in the Taconic Mountains [23:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
category→gaming
I was never much of gamer. The last time I lost hours of my life in front of a console - thumbs furiously flying across a controller, eschewing food and sleep - it was 1992... it was the first Nintendo and [...]

[jules' pics] The Thames Valley 

James’ Empty Blog [14:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
category→recreation
 GB
Londinium has, to me, always seemed alien to the rest of the UK, but the Thames Valley has become another country too. It is so polished that it seems more like a theme park than a real place. Palaces [...]

Waiting for China’s Natural Gas Revolution 

Energy Policy Blog [10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info
China plans to significantly increase its natural gas consumption to help cut its appalling air pollution. But natural gas is still a small part of its energy mix. In addition, and to confound [...]
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