Fossils and Other Living Things [14:25:00]
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Oh, the trouble those amateur collectors cause. For once, I’m not the culprit; rather, it’s someone unknown who once filled a cigar box with projectile points made by prehistoric Native Americans (the most likely identity of their makers).This post, featuring no specific fossils, is about where things start and where they end up. Specifically, it begins with my in-laws’ house, which dates from the colonial period, digresses a bit, considers the contents of that cigar box, [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:33:59]
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ksl.com Homeowners in a mountainside community north of Salt Lake City feared a cracked ridgeline above their property would send a landslide crashing below. They alerted city officials, who hired crews that began to raze the slope but couldn’t prevent a rock and debris from breaking away and smashing into a home. READ
Ok, you've had a few days here and there. It was actually warm enough to go out in shorts for the day. Now comes our normal weather. Forget Global Warming, that was just statistical anomaly. Sure, we [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [20:05:00]
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La revista PLoS One publica hoy un análisis sobre los elementos que forman la armadura dérmica de los dinosaurios titanosaurios basado en el material recogido en el yacimiento de Lo Hueco (en Fuentes, [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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This is a small piece of an Arachnophyllum sp. coral from the Silurian aged Fiborn limestone member of the Hendricks formation. It was found near Trout Lake, Michigan. I purchased it as a comparison piece for [...]
Earlier this year, in the journal Gondwana Research, paleontologists Gerald Grellet-Tinner and Vlad Codrea announced an unexpected pterosaur.
Ophiuroids (aka serpent stars and brittle stars) do some pretty remarkable things, BUT They are often tiny and cryptic so we don't get to see the cool array of things they do.
Flickr and YouTube have provided [...]
1 Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 2 Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK Introduction Climatic change is causing the widespread retreat of glacier [...]
The summer of 2014 has been unusually mild in the Midwest and portions of the East, and brutally hot and dry in the West. The heat and drought in the NW corner of North America has led to raging forest fires [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [13:07:51]
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Today for the first time I saw Saegusa and Ikeda’s (2014) new monograph describing the Japanese titanosauriform Tambatitanis amicitiae. I’ve not yet had a chance to read the paper — well, [...]
markwitton.com blog [12:55:00]
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(102 visits) category→science_technology Triassic; BR
Yesterday, a huge team of authors called out the science behind 'Thalassodromeus sebesensis', an alleged new pterosaur species 40 million years and thousands of miles out of time and space (Grellet-Tinner and [...]
The death of Mork has left us all a bit sad, but he had more problems than mere depression. He was a true Intellectual Depressive (IP), of which I am a member. These people are brilliant and see humour in [...]
Some field folks are paranoid about bedbugs - only sleeping on top of the sheets, bringing their own sheets, taking special precautions to keep all luggage away from anything potentially infested, etc.
I am [...]
The Duncan area of eastern Arizona had another measurable aftershock early this morning, following the June 28, M5.2 event. A M2.8 quake occurred at 3:33 am local time close to other recent aftershocks. [...]
Earthly Musings [05:53:00]
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This was my first camping safari and I really enjoyed it. The biggest thrill was being with friends and Helen on their first safari. It is a fabulous experience and one that anyone with the means should [...]
Geology.com News [08:10:13]
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2010 Earthquake in Chile Triggers Icequakes in Antarctica ? ABC Science Azerbaijan Oil and Gas Report Energy Information Administration Ecuador: M5.1 Earthquake Triggers Deadly Landslide Reuters Geckos Control [...]
Paleoseismicity [16:43:10]
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During the last three weeks I have been to Kazakhstan for paleoseismological field work and to summarize this journey: It was amazing! The trip was part of the Earthquakes without Frontiers project (EwF). This [...]
Current M.S. in Sustainability Management student Prerna Chatterjee first became interested in sustainability when she worked as a Carbon Footprint Analyst in Germany after earning her undergraduate degree in [...]
James’ Empty Blog [18:20:00]
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Another year, another increase in Geoscientific Model Development's impact factor. Last year I reported that GMD was a whisker behind ACP in the EGU journals, and this year our impact factor has risen still [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:01:42]
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It is day three of the General Assembly in Vienna, there are no sessions directly relevant to your research scheduled in the programme for this afternoon and you would really like to take a bit of a break from [...]
Geochemists Alexander van Geen and Jacob Mey helped coauthor a recent paper in the leading journal Science showing that warming climate in the future may not degrade oxygen supplies in some parts of the oceans [...]
Bohrungen in Lauben und Bedernau im Unterallgäu Heidelberg. Die Wintershall GmbH, Öl- und Gastochter der BASF, hat heute mit einer Erdölbohrung in Lauben im Unterallgäu begonnen. Eine weitere Bohrung soll [...]
Megalodon is dead. This shouldn’t come as a shock. The fossil record is clear that after about 14
Utah Geological Survey - blog [02:03:10]
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The views in Utah go on for days, years, and centuries. Good thing we’ve got all of these beautiful geology photos to share with you! Have a wonderful evening, geo friends. Raft River Mountains, Box [...]
JD Capuano is known at the National Resources Defense Council and Etsy (an e-commerce website for handmade and vintage items) as a key partner in developing their organizations’ sustainability [...]
Heidelberg, 13. August 2014 Ein neuer interdisziplinärer Masterstudiengang Geoarchäologie
startet zum Wintersemester 2014/2015 an der Universität Heidelberg. Das
forschungsorientierte Studienangebot ist [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [07:21:19]
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Gunnar Ries beschreibt in seinem Sciblog…: An einem Kliff im
On July 31st a forest fire broke out in the Swedish county of Västmanland. The fire was quite large by Swedish standards covering an area described as 10 x 15 kilometres. There is, to date, one confirmed [...]
Since we have already drilled a hole at Site U1440 (approximately 20 meters from where we are now) and collected sediment cores from that hole up [...]