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Wednesday, 13 August 2014

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Provenance or Provenience? ~ Not a Chance 

Fossils and Other Living Things [14:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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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, [...]

Assessing landslide risk falls to Utah homeowners 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:33:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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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

Canadians - Prepare for Winter 

Ontario-geofish [18:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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 GL
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 [...]

Una de saurópodos acorazados de Lo Hueco en PLoS ONE 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [20:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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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, [...]

Arachnophyllum sp. coral from Michigan 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 Silurian; US
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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 [...]

The Pterosaurs That Weren’t 

Laelaps [01:53:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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Earlier this year, in the journal Gondwana Research, paleontologists Gerald Grellet-Tinner and Vlad Codrea announced an unexpected pterosaur.

5 Cool, Weird Brittle Star Behavior Captured on video/pictures! 

Echinoblog [03:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
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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 [...]

Research Summary: Challenges Associated With Modelling Outburst Floods From Moraine-Dammed Glacial Lakes 

Lake Scientist [17:58:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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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 [...]

Crazy Summer Weather pattern Is About To Flip 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:49:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info

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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 [...]

The bizarre caudal neural spines of Tambatitanis amicitiae 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [13:07:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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 JP
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, [...]

Lies, damned lies, and 'Thalassodromeus sebesensis' 

markwitton.com blog [12:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
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 Triassic; BR
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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 [...]

Depression in the News 

Ontario-geofish [17:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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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 [...]

bedbugs 

Accidental Remediation [00:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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 [...]

Afterschocks continue from Duncan earthquake 

Arizona Geology [18:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
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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.   [...]

Four Day Camping Safari to Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater 

Earthly Musings [05:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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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 [...]

August 13, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
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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 [...]

Paleoseismological field work in Kazakhstan 

Paleoseismicity [16:43:10]  recommend  1 recommendations  (138 visits) info
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 KG,KZ,GB,NZ,
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 [...]

Sustainability Management Student Association Welcomes New President 

State of the Planet [16:47:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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 DE
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 [...]

We're the best! 

James’ Empty Blog [18:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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 US,CN
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 [...]

GeoCinema Online: Saturn and its Icy Moon 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:01:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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 AT
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 [...]

Ocean Sediments Tell a Surprising Climate Story 

State of the Planet [17:04:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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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 [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Neue Erdölbohrungen in Bayern unter Beteiligung der Rhein Petroleum 

Rohstoff Blog [15:48:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
category→business
 DE
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: The Monster Shark’s Dead 

Laelaps [23:34:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Megalodon is dead. This shouldn’t come as a shock. The fossil record is clear that after about 14

POTD August 12, 2014: Raft River Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [02:03:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
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 [...]

Pedaling for the Planet: NYC-DC Climate Ride 

State of the Planet [16:42:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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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 [...]

Neuer Masterstudiengang Geoarchäologie an der Universität Heidelberg 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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 DE
Heidelberg, 13. August 2014 Ein neuer interdisziplinärer Masterstudiengang Geoarchäologie startet zum Wintersemester 2014/2015 an der Universität Heidelberg. Das forschungsorientierte Studienangebot ist [...]

Bergsturz an einem Kliff 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [07:21:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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Gunnar Ries beschreibt in seinem Sciblog…: An einem Kliff im

Forest fire tracking with Landsat-8 

Digital Geography [12:15:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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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 [...]

Site U1440B activity; A unique way to install a reentry system 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [02:56:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
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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 [...]
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