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Friday, 29 August 2014

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Its a Wrap! 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [22:01:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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

Status update on Askja and Bárðarbunga at 18:35 UTC 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [20:35:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
This information is going to get outdated quickly. For the media please note! I am not a professional geologist. I got all the same knowledge as they do, but I am not a professional geologist. For professional view … Continue reading

Los últimos dinosaurios de Europa se encuentra en Huesca 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [19:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
category→science_technology
 FI,ES,US,IN,MX
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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 [...]

Building Stone Tours 

New Stories in Stone [17:08:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
For several years I have given tours of Seattle’s building stones. Now, ... [ continue

Small quake northeast of Kingman 

Arizona Geology [16:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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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 [...]

100 Great Geosites nomination: Widemouth Bay, North Cornwall 

Geological Society of London blog [16:11:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
category→sports
 GB
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 [...]

Meet Chris Fischer from Ocearch today at HMNS! 

BEYONDbones [15:30:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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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 [...]

Flared Production in North Dakota Continues to Grow 

Geology.com News [15:09:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (48 visits) info
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

Geology sonnet roundup 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [14:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
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 [...]

Friday Photo (127) – Slow Water Collection, Tanzania 

Geology for Global Development [13:20:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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 [...]

Bárðarbunga fissure eruption 

lithics [10:49:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info

 KM
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 [...]

Sonderführung durch das Eiszeitmuseum 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:02:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info

 DE
Wissenschaftliche Museumsführung zu den Eiszeiten in Holstein: Wo: Eiszeitmuseum Lütjenburg

August 29, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
category→science_technology
 IS,IN,JP,GB
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 [...]

Latest episode of Arizona Mining Review online 

Arizona Geology [05:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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Geosonnet 7 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [05:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
category→science_technology
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, [...]

Hudbay announces $8 million Rosemont Copper drilling program 

Arizona Geology [05:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
category→business
 US
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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 on the fissure swarm 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [02:20:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
Eruption has started in the dyke area. The eruption appears clearly on Míla web camera. It can be viewed here. More details

Thinking about spinal cords 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [00:45:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
category→culture_politics
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 [...]

Update on Askja and Bárðarbunga volcanoes at 22:21 UTC 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:21:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
category→science_technology
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 [...]

Faculty Profile: Robert Cook 

State of the Planet [17:55:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
category→science_technology
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 [...]

Flagstaff's Wayne Ranney leading world tour of northern locales 

Arizona Geology [16:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 US,GL,IS,MN,SJ,RU
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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 [...]

How Much Arsenic is Too Little? 

State of the Planet [16:12:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (668 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
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 [...]

Erosion, Then Explosion 

State of the Planet [16:00:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
category→science_technology
When viewing The Great Unconformity, The result of a vast denudation, One feels a new sense of enormity ... And above it lie critters

Die Wärmeleitfähigkeit von Naturstein 

Natursteine-Blog [15:24:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
category→business
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 [...]

Friday fold: Pleistocene glacial folding of Cretaceous sedimentary rock? 

Mountain Beltway [14:54:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Cretaceous,Ordovician; CA
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

Datanglong: un nuovo carcharodontosauriano? 

Theropoda [13:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
category→religion
 US
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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 [...]

Bardarbunga - aggiornamento al 29 agosto 

scienzeedintorni [12:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
category→science_technology
 BO,ID,NG,US,IT,KM,FR,IS,JP,IE,GR
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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 [...]

Matt Cornah - My Friend Jeff 

Koprolitos [10:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 Jurassic; GB
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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 [...]

Conularia from Bolivia 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info

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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’s Fossils of the Week: Orthid brachiopods from the Middle Devonian of New York 

Wooster Geologists [07:14:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
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 [...]

Mt Polley: Why It Failed 

I think mining [05:42:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
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 [...]

Just a Neat Moment in My Day... 

Geotripper [05:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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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 [...]

Russian Cadoceras Ammonite Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Jurassic; IT,RU
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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: [...]

“Glad You Asked” August 28, 2014 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:13:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
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 [...]

sample packaging 2 

Accidental Remediation [00:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
category→business
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 [...]
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