Manche Gesteine, zum Beispiel wie der Unakit, heben sich durch ihre hübsche grüne Farbe ab. Das Mineral, welches für die Farbe verantwortlich ist, ist sehr oft das Mineral Epidot. Bekannt ist das Mineral bereits seit 1782, als es im französischen Le Bourg-d’Oisans entdeckt wurde. Zunächst aber hielt man es für einen Turmalin. Erst der französische Mineraloge René-Just Haüy erkannte es als eigenständiges Mineral. Er gab ihm seinen Namen, in Anlehnung an das griechische epidosis für [...]
My Columbia University colleagues Bill Eimicke and Alison Miller recently joined me in authoring a new book entitled Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to A Cleaner Economy. If all goes well, Jossey-Bass publishers will release the book in early 2015. Our work focuses on how American government at the federal, state and local levels can work with the private sector to speed up what I see as the inevitable transition to a renewable economy. While there is a lot of action at the [...]
The next up on my tour of the National Parks in pictures:Craters of the Moon National Monument & PreserveMy standard park sign picture, but this time with the little one. Lava tube entrance. This [...]
Wissenschaftler des Alfred-Wegener-Institutes, Helmholtz-Zentrum für
Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), haben mit Hilfe des ESA-Satelliten
CryoSat-2 erstmals flächendeckende Karten der Eisschilde [...]
Extreme Klimaereignisse wurden in der Vergangenheit nicht nur
erlitten, sondern auch genutzt – etwa von Friedrich dem Großen. Der
preußische König instrumentalisierte in den 1770er Jahren die
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Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:38:06]
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ksl.com The public will soon have a chance to see an extraordinary set of footprints left behind by dinosaurs 125 million years ago. READ
The word on the street in Reykjavík I’m in the Reykjavík this week on fieldwork. People here have been following developments at Bárðarbunga since the earthquakes began on Saturday. The word on the [...]
Green Tea and Velociraptors [17:40:42]
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Two developments since the last post regarding open access things for anyone interested! First, is a little interview I had with the Open Access Button folk about er, open [...]
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From NOAA Photo Library here.
HOLY CARP!! So, as you know, I've been going through and finding some GREAT stuff in the NOAA Photo Library (see this post from a few days ago) but every once in awhile you [...]
drip | david’s really interesting pages... [13:09:09]
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A quick test of the very cool, and very promising wheely, from Adam at mechanical color. Not quite the thing for tiles, but not far off either. And indispensable for auto wheels and
Climate and Geohazards [12:00:12]
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The earthquake distribution on Iceland in the last 48 hours. There is a clear cluster of events around the northern tip of the Vatnajökull glacier. This is the location of the Bárðarbunga volcano. See [...]
Climate and Geohazards [11:08:09]
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As of this morning, Wednesday 20th August, 32 people have been confirmed dead after heavy rainfall last night resulted in multiple landslides in the Japanese city Hiroshima. The unexpected large low pressure [...]
Ah, the lost opportunities! I don't want to make it sound like we had a bad Northern Convergence trip; we actually had a great time taking our students through an exploration of the geology of Vancouver [...]
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T R Shankar Raman, an ecologist who blogs at View At Elephant Hills and tweets @mizoraman wrote in last week with a question about fossils, field work and conservation. It ended up being a long conversation [...]
A brief summary of how Saudi Aramco developed the Manifa offshore oil field – the largest extended-reach oil development in the
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The five pictures in this posting, were taken (by me) at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. This place is surely a testament to genius and attention to detail. Yesterday I was asked if Canadian guidelines are [...]
Active Tectonics Blog [03:21:00]
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Dramatic weather today! Looks like as much as 4” rainfall in the last 24 hours in the northern part of Maricopa County drove lots of exciting runoff.ABC 15 picture of flooded roads near New River AZ. Here [...]
The earth is vast and its surface seems huge. However, the earth’s crust only makes up 1% of the earth’s mass — subsequent layers (the mantle and the core) make up the other 99%. So, why do we care [...]
Earth Institute Executive Director Steve Cohen discusses the changing natures of work and opportunity in the transition to a sustainable
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Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany have used
satellite data to map elevation and elevation changes in both Greenland
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By Guest Blogger Mike Vance, Houston Arts and Media To picture the home front during World War II is to summon memories of drives for war bonds and scrap metal and rationing of sugar, meat and shoes. To be [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:34:50]
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nps.gov Colorado/Utah –Ben Otoo and Nicole Ridgwell are spending the summer living a dream as they scramble and climb among the remains of the long dead. These young paleontologists are photographing and [...]
Per molti, è quasi impossibile
scindere il concetto di “dinosauro” da quello di
“rappresentazione paleoartistica di un dinosauro”, come se
“rappresentazione paleoartistica di” fosse ridondante con [...]
I recently learned about this serendipitous vein in a marble slab in ... [ continue
The Earth Institute will offer six research assistant opportunities for undergraduate students during the fall 2014 semester. Undergraduates from Columbia and Barnard will be able to serve as research [...]
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GSN field trip Day 2: we're still at Majuba Hill.
Continuing with our progression from left to right of rhyolite porphyry hand samples, we move on to Rock Number 3, a weakly mineralized version of the [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:22]
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What got you hooked to science in the first place? More importantly, what or who persuaded you that making science your career was, not only worth considering, but should be actively pursed? I’m sure, I am [...]
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El Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes ha recibido al
visitante 150.000. La tarde del martes 19 de agosto, Milena de 12 años
con su familia, la familia Lizaso Rebollo, procedente de Barcelona, ha
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Y como continuación de la viñeta de ayer, Alberto Montt publicó en su blog "Dosis diarias" otra tira con referencias al cuento del dinosaurio de Augusto Monterroso. Puedes ver la viñeta de [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:41:01]
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Das Bodennetzwerk Südbayern lädt Interessierte ein: Wann: 10.09.2014, ab 14:30
Geology.com News [08:10:37]
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2013 Geoscience Salaries American Geosciences Institute The Diamond Oligopoly Paul Zimnisky Fracking in the Geothermal Industry The Economist State of the Climate in 2013 NOAA The Roadblock to Drilling in [...]
This image from NOAA Photo Library. Here.
Brisingid starfishes were my first professional "love".. I wrote my Masters thesis on them and it was almost 2 years after studying specimens like this...
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As an Art Evolved member, I post a pair of my reviews here every so often, the 1st being positive & the 2nd being negative. I'd greatly appreciate you reading & voting "Yes" for said reviews in the [...]
washingtonpost.com Dry winters are taking their toll on the Great Salt Lake, which is just a couple feet away from reaching its record low level, set over 50 years ago. READ
Lounge of the Lab Lemming [00:39:00]
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As mentioned previously, I am writing Geology Sonnets for National Science Week. These are articles from the high-profile scientific journal Geology, presented in the form of Elizabethan verse. I don’t [...]