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Wednesday, 27 August 2014

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Toward an Isopach Map of the Cedar Creek Mastodon Bog 

Wooster Geologists [23:51:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
Wooster’s Climate Change class is starting the semester by  coring a bog adjacent to a recent Mastodon find in Morrow County, Ohio. The Mastodon work and related excavation is being led by Nigel Brush, University of Ashland.  Above is a photo (courtesy of Nigel Brush) of the original mastodon tooth find. After a fairly extensive

Southern Mexico—Earthquakes, Tectonics, & Earthquake Early Warning 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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Oil and Gas in Pennsylvania 

Geology.com News [21:09:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
category→business
 US
The Pennsylvania Geological Survey has published a new third edition of their popular publication: Oil and Gas in Pennsylvania. The update includes information about technologies such as horizontal drilling, [...]

Göppert, 1847. Zur Flora des Quader-Sandsteins in Schlesien, Nachtrag 

kreidefossilien.de [20:37:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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 DE
Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert, 1847. Zur Flora des Quader-Sandsteins in Schlesien, als Nachtrag zu der früher erschienen Abhandlung über den selben Gegenstand. Novorum Actorum Academiae Caesareae [...]

Preliminary Announcement: Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazards Summit III 

Arizona Geology [20:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
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Beware Weyerhaeuser 

New Stories in Stone [19:03:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
Media outlets around the region are trumpeting Weyerhaeuser’s plan to transfer its ... [ continue

6th September - Hampshire Mineral & Fossil Show 

Geology in the West Country [18:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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El pterosaurio que era... una tortuga 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [16:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info

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Toca un poco de cotilleo paleontológico. Os contamos la historia. Hace pocas semanas los investigadores G. Grellet-Tinner y V.A. Codrea, V. A. publicaron en la prestigiosa revista Gondwana Research la [...]

Sweetwater River at the Devil’s Gate 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [15:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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Devil's Gate in 2014.In the mid-1800s, hundreds of thousands of gold-seekers, pioneers, pilgrims and other dreamers took the Oregon Trail west.  They followed the valley of the blessed [...]

Research Summary: Mercury Biomagnification In Three Geothermally-Influenced Lakes Differing In Chemistry And Algal Biomass 

Lake Scientist [15:01:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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Mercury (Hg) biomagnifies in aquatic organisms, meaning that concentrations in tissues of biota increase as trophic position in food chains increases. Highest Hg concentrations are expected in top predators [...]

Dinosaur bone 

Mountain Beltway [14:42:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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 CA
In July, I found a dinosaur bone in Dinosaur Provincial Park! It was lying in a wash coming off a small mesa, and sure enough, when the students and I walked up the little draw, we came to in situ bones poking [...]

Landslides in the UK 

Climate and Geohazards [13:26:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info

 GB
In the UK we have thousands of landslide events every year. These can be very costly financially and occasionally result in loss of life. This is a great video explaining what they are and how they affect [...]

Naturstein im Wohnzimmer 

Natursteine-Blog [12:03:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
Gemütlich, klassisch, stylish – alles ist möglich Das Wohnzimmer ist für viele das Herzstück der eigenen vier Wände. Kein Wunder, schließlich ist es der Raum, in dem man sich [...]

Bicara BBM dan Energi yang REALISTIS saja. 

Dogeng Geology [10:59:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info

 AM,ID
Hampir semua yang dituangkan dalam pembicaraan/diskusi energi maupun berita di koran masih lebih banyak soal “snapshot” saat ini, atau impian jauh kedepan. Saat ini (sebagian rakyat) sedang panik [...]

Disney patents aerial puppetry 

drip | david’s really interesting pages... [09:04:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
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Ars Technica reports on a patent application which would cover drone-driven aerial character puppetry. Jack Skellington would indeed make a fantastic parade

Spezialkurs: Denkmalschutz & Archäologie unter Wasser 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [06:13:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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Der Deutsche Unterwasser Club Duisburg im Tauchsportverband bietet den Kurs

Arctic Vortex follows me to Hawaii 

Ontario-geofish [04:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info

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Cold and rainy. People here are wearing

Seattle 1841 – aka Piner Point 

New Stories in Stone [02:06:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info

 US
Like many people interested in geology, I have had a long fascination ... [ continue

‘What’s wood glue doing there?’ Connecting the dots to repair an ancient join 

BEYONDbones [02:02:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info
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 US
Hello again, and welcome to the third post in my series on the conservation of a Third-Intermediate-Period coffin lid at the Michael C. Carlos Museum. As our team in the lab has seen, many times repairs of [...]

POTD August 26, 2014: Hurricane Cliffs near Pintura, Washington County, Utah 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:21:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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 Permian; US
Hurricane Cliffs near Pintura, Washington County, Utah Photographer: Paul Inkenbrandt; © 2013 Permian-age strata in the Hurricane Cliffs near Pintura, Washington

For Penn’s Tanner Frank, Dinosaur Digs in Utah Offer a Desk Job Alternative 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:08:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
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 US
Sometimes a desk is just “The Great Outdoors.” upenn.edu Like a lot of little kids, Tanner Frank went through a “dinosaur phase.” Unlike most, however, he says, “I never grew out of it.” [...]

Utah’s Great Gallery rock art younger than expected, say scientists 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:02:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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 US
phys.org Ancient Barrier Canyon-style paintings crafted on sunset-washed rock faces of the Great Gallery, located in Horseshoe Canyon in southern Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, are younger than [...]

GOES 14 Rapid Scan images of Hurricane Cristobal 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:04:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
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This is the kind of satellite imagery we will see daily when GOES R launches in 2016, and it will be even higher resolution spatially and temporally. GOES 14 is a spare satellite that is turned on and checked [...]

Parmorthis waldronensis brachiopod from the Waldron Shale 

Views of the Mahantango [21:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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 Silurian; US
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Another brachiopod from the diverse Waldron Shale (Silurian, Wenlock epoch) is Parmorthis waldronensis. It reminds me a little bit of Pseudoatrypa reticularis of the Devonian (because of one valve being convex [...]

Göppert, 1847. Zur Flora des Quader-Sandsteins in Schlesien, Nachtrag 

kreidefossilien.de [20:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (56 visits) info
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Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert, 1847. Zur Flora des Quader-Sandsteins in Schlesien, als Nachtrag zu der früher erschienen Abhandlung über den selben Gegenstand. Novorum Actorum Academiae Caesareae [...]

Sulla oggettiva inconsistenza del nostro effimero sciovinismo 

Theropoda [20:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
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Dinosauria è il clade di vertebrati terrestri di maggiore successo negli ultimi 200 milioni di anni. Dalla fine del Triassico ad oggi, nessun altro clade di vertebrati ha prodotto un numero così alto di [...]

Saving Oklahoma 

Ontario-geofish [18:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info

 US
At the party yesterday I was talking and my friend said "Why don't they treat the water so to not cause earthquakes? So my brain clicked and it was so simple. All those other states can start injecting [...]

Magnitude 4,5 earthquake in Askja volcano 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [17:33:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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 SE,IS
Today (27-August-2014) at 01:52 UTC a magnitude 4,5 earthquake took place in Askja volcano. This is the largest earthquake in Askja volcano since 1992 according to news in Iceland. There are currently some [...]

Quiet Shifts, Crazy Crossovers… 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [16:00:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
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 KM
This past week we completed drilling and geophysical logging of the hole at Site 1440B, and then we used the ship’s thruster system to slowly motor [...]

IPCC attribution statements redux: A response to Judith Curry 

Real Climate [15:45:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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I have written a number of times about the procedure used to attribute recent climate change (here in 2010, in 2012 (about the AR4 statement), and again in 2013 after AR5 was released). For people who want a [...]

Giant Deep Sea Amoebas! Meet the Xenophyophores!! 

Echinoblog [14:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 NL
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So, following up with all of the NOAA deep-sea Okeanos Explorer stuff, I've found that I am just FASCINATED by these things called Xenophyophores!! The name means "Bearer of foreign bodies". But [...]

The Bárðarbunga dyke intrusion 

lithics [13:56:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
So my previous post on Bárðarbunga focussed on the geochemistry and plumbing of the volcano, but I thought it might be useful to talk a little bit about the activity we’ve witnessed over the last [...]

GeoCinema Online: The Geological Storage of CO2 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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 Welcome to week two of GeoCinema Screenings! In a time when we can’t escape the fact that anthropogenic emissions are contributing to the warming of the Earth, we must explore all the options to reduce the [...]

Menaikkan harga BBM kenapa harus takut ? 

Dogeng Geology [11:14:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
category→sports
Jokowi ngga perlu takut dalam soal BBM ini. Apabila SBY tidak mau menurunkan BBM pada mas pemerintahan kali ini, ada cara politis supaya popularitasnya tidak terganggu : Angkat Kabinet dari kalangan [...]

Homenajes a John Hammond en la red 

Koprolitos [09:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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RIP Lord Richard Attenborough (Minimal Bollywood Posters)Como ya sabéis, el actor y director Richard Attenborough falleció el pasado domingo a los 90 años. Ganador del Óscar a la mejor dirección en 1982 [...]

3QD blogging contest metadata 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [08:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
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The long-lived, old-school blogging site 3 quarks daily is holding its annual science blogging contest  They have nominated eighty-five blog posts upon which one can vote to advance it into the finals [...]

Mt Polley: How to Avoid a Recurrence 

I think mining [06:02:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info

 US
The oft-asked question I get is this: how do you prevent a recurrence of the Mt Polley failure? I have touched on some aspects of the answer in previous postings.  But let me, here, state my opinion [...]

Bárðarbunga volcano update at 00:31 UTC 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [02:32:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
category→science_technology
This information is going to get outdated quickly. This is the short update on status on the activity in Bárðarbungu volcano. Current activity is mostly unchanged. Earthquake activity remains high  and [...]

All Punches Went Towards Napa 

Seismo Blog [02:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info

 US

Running Out of Ground - Trekking to the Roof of Africa on Mt. Kilimanjaro - Part 5 - Down From the Mountain - Days Eight and Nine 

Earthly Musings [01:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
category→recreation
 CD,KE,TZ,
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And so, after 16 months of planning, preparing, and participating, the Mt. Kilimanjaro adventure was almost complete. Surprisingly, I did not feel a great sense of personal accomplishment. My competitive days [...]

Running Out of Ground - Trekking to the Roof of Africa on Mt. Kilimanjaro - Part 4 - To the Top of the Volcano - Days Six and Seven 

Earthly Musings [01:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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There are shorter routes to the top of Kilimanjaro but I was not interested in a 'burn-run' to the top of a mountain - I was not interested in "bagging a peak." Some people here are there for that reason and [...]

Rock fall prevention in Utah’s Canyons 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:05:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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 US
A quick read on UDOT’s rockfall prevention efforts. Check it out! good4utah.com On average, the Utah Department of Transportation spends $200,000 each year cleaning up after rock falls. Crews also make [...]

Geolocating GNS Science Outreach 

Julian\'s Blog [00:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info

 NZ
Announcing our new Google Map that shows the locations of videos and blog posts within New Zealand. Zoom in and out to find a location and click on any icon to go straight to the online content.If you enable [...]
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