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
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, [...]
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 [...]
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Media outlets around the region are trumpeting Weyerhaeuser’s plan to transfer its ... [ continue
Geology in the West Country [18:34:00]
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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 [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [15:57:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
drip | david’s really interesting pages... [09:04:23]
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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
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [06:13:10]
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Der Deutsche Unterwasser Club Duisburg im Tauchsportverband bietet den Kurs
Cold and rainy. People here are wearing
Like many people interested in geology, I have had a long fascination ... [ continue
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 [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:21:10]
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Hurricane Cliffs near Pintura, Washington County, Utah Photographer: Paul Inkenbrandt; © 2013 Permian-age strata in the Hurricane Cliffs near Pintura, Washington
Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:08:14]
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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.” [...]
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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 [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:04:22]
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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 [...]
Views of the Mahantango [21:01:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [17:33:16]
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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 [...]
JOIDES Resolution blogs [16:00:42]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:35]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The long-lived, old-school blogging site 3 quarks daily is
holding its annual science blogging contest
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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 [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [02:32:03]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:05:14]
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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 [...]
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 [...]