Here at Expedition Live! we have some catching up to do. We were so busy this year running 4 different quarries simultaneously, we didn’t have a lot of time for blogging. We were able to squeeze in a lot of Tweets, so if you aren’t following us on Twitter, you might be missing out on
WeBlog Aragosaurus [19:55:00]
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El diario del AltoAragón de Huesca ca 10 de Agosto publica un especial sobre Huesca. Ese día es la festividad de San Lorenzo, día grande de las fiestas de la ciudad. Este año nuestro aragosaurero ha [...]
For several years I have given tours of Seattle’s building stones. Now, ... [ continue
There was a magnitude 1.7 earthquake just after 3a.m. local time this morning, about 27 miles northeast of Kingman, Arizona. [Right, orange star marks the epicenter. Credit, USGS]
An area 40 miles east of [...]
Geological Society of London blog [16:11:44]
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A 100 Great Geosites nomination from Linda Fowler… Widemouth Bay, North Cornwall – a brilliant field skills teaching location I visited this first as an Open University student in the 1980s: it is a [...]
Today at HMNS – meet Chris Fischer, Founding Chairman and Expedition Leader for OCEARCH who will be here today at the opening of our new special exhibition Shark! Event Details:Friday, August 292:00 [...]
For the past four years, North Dakota oil producers have flared, or burned into the atmosphere, a third of the natural gas that has come up the wellbore with the
Lounge of the Lab Lemming [14:39:00]
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Firstly, I would like to place all six science week sonnets
(plus the bonus poem) in stratigraphic order.
That is, youngest rocks described at the top. An analysis will follow
the poetry:
A pox on
all [...]
Geology for Global Development [13:20:52]
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(84 visits) category→science_technology TZ
Water Collection – Chato District, Tanzania Some of these women and children in Tanzania had been waiting at these small holes for 5 hours for enough water to seep through the ground to fill their [...]
Well, the very impressive dyke intrusion which has been steadily growing over the last week or so appears to have broken the surface. A 1 km long fissure eruption started early this morning and is ongoing [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:02:44]
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Wissenschaftliche Museumsführung zu den Eiszeiten in Holstein: Wo: Eiszeitmuseum Lütjenburg
Geology.com News [08:10:13]
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Glacier Melting Above Bardarbunga Volcano (Iceland) Yahoo! News Developmental Plasticity:How Walking Fish Adapt to Land Los Angeles Times World’s Oldest Wine Cellar Discovery.com China’s Shale Gas [...]
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Lounge of the Lab Lemming [05:40:00]
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The Schrödinger bacteria’s Barsoom,
Where robots scan the wadi of the Styx.
There died, or never lived a microbe bloom
When déjà vu and Dejah Thoris mix,
Her hungry eyes fixed on Hadean seas,
[...]
I reported a couple weeks ago that Hudbay Minerals, new owner of the Rosemont Copper project [right, credit Rosemont Copper], was planning a drilling program to confirm the extent and quality of the ore [...]
Eruption has started in the dyke area. The eruption appears clearly on Míla web camera. It can be viewed here. More details
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [00:45:35]
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I’m scrambling to get everything done before I leave for England and SVPCA this weekend, so no time for a substantive post. Instead, some goodies from old papers I’ve been reading. Explanations [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:21:13]
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This is a short update on Askja and Bárðarbunga volcanoes. This information is going to get outdated quickly. I am not going to use pictures from now on (in most cases), since the situation now is complex [...]
For MPA in Environmental Science professor, Dr. Robert Cook, the MPA-ESP program allows him to share his unique experiences in veterinary medicine and conservation research with students as they delve into [...]
Arizona Geology [16:48:00]
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Today's mail brought a slick brochure from Smithsonian Journeys offering a private jet tour next June around the world of northern locales hopping from Seattle to, among others, Mongolia to Siberia to [...]
Five hundred utilities in the United States currently provide drinking water with unsafe levels of arsenic, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But determining the actual number of people who are [...]
When viewing The Great Unconformity,
The result of a vast denudation,
One feels a new sense of enormity ...
And above it lie critters
Die Vorteile der beliebten Fußbodenheizung Die Zeiten der lästigen Heizkörper sind passé: Wer neu baut oder auch kernsaniert, der entscheidet sich meist für eine Fußbodenheizung und [...]
Mountain Beltway [14:54:22]
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The Friday fold is found in Cretaceous rocks of eastern Alberta - but far beyond the tectonic influence of the Canadian Rockies. So what's responsible for the
Iniziavo
a soffrire una crisi per astinenza da nuovi theropodi mesozoici; per
mia fortuna in questi giorni sono stati pubblicati due nuovi taxa.
Ognuno ha le proprie dipendenze...
Il
primo di questi nuovi [...]
scienzeedintorni [12:39:00]
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A dimostrazione della rapidità con cui la situazione sui vulcani si può evolvere, questo post era stato scritto ieri sera ma le cose stanotte sono andate molto velocemente: avevo scritto che “l'intrusione [...]
Koprolitos [10:02:00]
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Atiende al temita que se marca Matt Cornah, cantante de Wigan (Gran Bretaña), para la productora australiana Cheeky Moon. El protagonista de la canción es el actor Jeff Goldblum. Bueno, en realidad es el [...]
These are some Conulariids from Bolivia that I received as part of "grab bags" of fossils I purchased on E-bay. Nothing was labelled but based on pictures from this seller on E-bay, I have tentatively assigned [...]
Wooster Geologists [07:14:59]
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(90 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; US
On the first day of the Invertebrate Paleontology course at Wooster, I give all the students a fossil to identify as best they can. Everyone gets the same kind of specimen, and they can use any means to put as [...]
There is a great silence of information about the geotechnical issues possibly involved in the failure of the Mt Polley tailings dam. No reports have been released; no letters published; no statistics [...]
I'm back at work this week teaching geology, and after an unexpectedly busy summer organizing trips, I needed the rest! Being back on campus also allowed me to reacquaint myself with the campus [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [03:00:00]
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Here is a picture of a Cadoceras sp. ammonite fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the middle Jurassic Period (ICS geological timescale: [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:13:06]
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With recent geologic hazards like the North Salt Lake landslide, and Napa, California’s large earthquake, perhaps this “Glad You Asked” article can come in handy. Are you thinking of buying a [...]
I recently discussed the various requirements/procedures/biases involved in shipping samples to a commercial lab. So what if you don't use a commercial carrier, but instead either bring the samples over [...]