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Friday, 22 August 2014
Geology Sonnet 5
Lounge of the Lab Lemming [23:32:00]
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US,AU
Australia
is a dry and stable land.
No mountain range, no active slipping fault,
And yet this plain had lava seas erupt.
We call them Kalkarindji flood basalt.
It’s hard to know just when these rocks were formed.
The weathering and rock type complicates
Radiometric dates of dykes that swarmed
When seas contained the first protochordates.
For ten long years they searched the outback
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Bárðarbunga volcano update at 21:11 UTC
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:12:34]
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This is a short update. I am still a little sick (sigh) so it’s a bit hard for me to work properly. Information here is going to get outdated quickly and without warning. Few short points on current … Continue reading
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The Society for Neuroscience receiving both barrels
Green Tea and Velociraptors [21:18:08]
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US
Apologies for the third post about open access publishing in a row. Normal service will resume shortly! I wanted to bring attention to a second open letter published, inspired by our first one to the [...]
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Novedades en el Museo de los Mares Paleozoicos
Faint Young Sun
Through an ancient looking-glass, Perhaps you'd see more H2 gas, And if with denser gas collided, Greater greenhouse warmthPeat: Not a “darling”
SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [15:00:27]
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Question: What is peat? Is it soil? Why does it form in some places and not others? The word “peat” in the 1500s was used to describe a “merry young
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GeoTalk: Meet Anna Rabitti, winner of I’m a Geoscientist, Get me out of here!
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:30:34]
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Earlier this year we ran the first ever I’m a Geoscientist, Get me out of here! event, an online chat-based game show in which school kids vote for their favourite geoscience communicators. In this week’s [...]
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From Firey Flow to Cool Art
Humans have a long tradition of taking rocks and making pretty things with them. Usually, when you think of sculpture, you think of marble, right? I mean, of course, marble – marble’s a... -- Read [...]How many?
Fuel Subsidies
In developed countries such as the United States, energy subsidies are usually discussed in terms of tax preferences for renewable or fossil energy sources, or energy efficiency. In other parts of the world, [...]Graph of the Largest Earthquakes (1906-2005)
Three earthquakes in Chile, Alaska and Sumatra account for almost 1/2 of the total seismic energy released in an entire10% of Iceland Closed as Concern Over Volcano Grows
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [04:50:33]
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IS,NZ
Concern is increasing tonight that the Bararbunga (BOWR-Thar Boon-Ka) volcano may be getting ready to erupt. Earthquakes continue, and these type of quakes indicate that magma (Lava with high pressure gases) [...]
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Tank or Tailings at Cananea?
While we in BC have been preoccupied by the Mt Polley situation, yet another tailings failure has occurred. This time in Mexico. That brings the number of failures this year to three: Duke Energy, Mt [...]Hiroshima: disastrous landslides with further rainfall warnings in effect
Catastrophic landslides in Hiroshima, Japan on Wednesday have killed 39 poeple, with many more reported missing. Further heavy rainfall is forecast for theDrought Uplift
Here is a article from Science Daily about the uplift rebound from the California DroughtUplift in CaliforniaHarryPetroacoustics Book (free online)
I got this email today from Patric Rasolofosaon, whom I met at my DISC lecture in Paris. He is a world authority on poroelasticity and has a new book co-authored with Bernard Zinszner. They have [...]Scleromochlus taylori: more than just 'the early ornithodiran'
markwitton.com blog [16:25:00]
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Triassic; GB,BR,US,AR,DE,ES,RU
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Reflections of a Changing North
No one ever leaves the field the same way they entered it. Yes there is a new layer of mud on equipment, the expected wear and tear on your personal gear and your physical being, but that is not what I am [...]Making Dramas: The Secret Workings of Science
earth-literally [12:10:00]
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Ordovician; CA,GB,OM,DE,US,NZ,AU,EG,FR,GR,IQ,PL,PT,PH,SY,JO,,IN,CH
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Jurassic Park Sega Genesis
Ahí tenéis a Robert T. Bakker en 1993 anunciando el videojuego de Jurassic Park para la Sega Genesis (o MegaDrive como la conocimos por aquí) en plena fiebre dinosauriana. Puritito vintage noventero para [...]Fuel Subsidies
In developed countries such as the United States, energy subsidies are usually discussed in terms of tax preferences for renewable or fossil energy sources, or energy efficiency. In other parts of the world, [...]Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Remanié fossils in the Lower Cretaceous of south-central England
Wooster Geologists [07:55:05]
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Cretaceous,Jurassic; GB
The last two editions were about a bryozoan and borings from the Faringdon Sponge Gravels (Lower Cretaceous, Upper Aptian) of south-central England. This week we have some Jurassic fossils from the same unit. [...]
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Outline of A Scientist’s (me...) Day on Shift
• Up at 9 PM (!!), in a pitch-black room (no windows in the JR cabins, so a headlamp for camping or caving is very useful in the morning….) read [...]Here is a short summary of what our Paleontologists have been up to!
Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:28:25]
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Cretaceous; US
The Utah Geological Survey’s paleontology program has just complete a month of excavation at our Doelling’s Bowl dinosaur site in eastern Utah. This site is in the early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain [...]
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environ. consulting career paths
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