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
Water and Megacities [15:09:26]
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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
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 [...]
The media in India is providing extensive coverage of the Malin landslide in Pune, which is now known to have killed at least 56
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 [...]
Geological Society of London blog [13:19:28]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:35]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The large lensoidal feature in the middle of the photo is a Tonalite sill Mega-Boudin surrounded by
WeBlog Aragosaurus [13:16:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Earthly Musings [00:58:00]
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(121 visits) category→science_technology Quaternary,Cretaceous,Jurassic,Triassic,Ordovician,Paleogene; US,NL
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 [...]
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 Geologists [07:50:07]
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(103 visits) category→science_technology 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 [...]
Mountain Beltway [14:58:37]
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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 [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(94 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; US
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. [...]
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Daily Fossil [22:26:00]
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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 [...]
Giant fleets the oceans trawl,
Gasping fish they skywards haul.
Not just critters do they move,
But sediments they push and groove
Geological Musing in the Taconic Mountains [23:39:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]