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Sunday, 31 August 2014

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A Sunday Mystery Photo... 

Geotripper [10:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (744 visits) info

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Here's a little mystery to start off your Sunday morning web browsing. What's going on here? Clues: Trees and sage provide scale, and it's in British Columbia. No shame in wrong

Playing with Tyrannosaurs 

Theropoda [09:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (703 visits) info
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La Tafonomia è la Cenerentola della Paleontologia. Bistrattata, dimenticata, emarginata, quando del tutto ignorata, essa è invece la Regina della nostra disciplina, senza la quale il mondo paleontologico sarebbe caos, anarchia, invaso da mitologie e superstizioni. In numerose occasioni, in questo blog, ho rimarcato come l'indagine su un fossile, in particolare per determinare informazioni su

Metacryphaeus sp. trilobite from Bolivia 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (702 visits) info
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 Devonian; BO
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I posted in an earlier blog entry about some Trilobite fossils I had from Bolivia. At the time I could not tell what the genera was of them because there were no labels. Well I found the specimen below in a [...]

The mysterious "sailing stones" of Death Valley 

Geology in Motion [00:19:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (685 visits) info
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Credits as above. Picture grabbed from ScienceDaily.com.How can a rock weight several hundred pounds move hundreds of meters across a "dry lake"?  And, why do they move in tandem? One of the early [...]

Unidentified Insect Fossil - Miocene 

Louisville Area Fossils [05:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (670 visits) info
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Here is a picture of an unidentified insect fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period. Image taken in [...]

Northern Convergence: The Sea to the Sky Highway in British Columbia (the Sky wins) 

Geotripper [01:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (220 visits) info
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Porteau Cove Provincial Park We are continuing our "Northern Convergence" journey through Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Our last post saw us observing the geology in and around Vancouver Island [...]

Gray Day in Yellowstone 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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 Quaternary; CA,US
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Yellowstone National Park -- land of wonders both natural and unnatural.No matter how carefully one plans a vacation, sometimes things just don’t work out.  Most years, late August is a wonderful time [...]

Tea drinking temperature 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [08:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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Un nuevo aragosaurero que va estudiar peces pleistocenos 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [17:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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Este año en la campaña del río de Atapuerca hemos tenido un nuevo participante. Ángel Blanco es un geólogo que ha empezado a hacer la tesis sobre los "peces" del Pleistoceno de diferentes yacimientos [...]

¡¡ Percebes jurásicos !! 

DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [19:21:27]  recommend  1 recommendations  (115 visits) info
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 GB,US
La revista inglesa Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association publica online un trabajo en el que se describen nuevos géneros y especies de percebes del Jurásico Superior del Reino Unido. Ejemplar holotipo [...]

Portable seismometers pulled from Duncan, heading to Napa 

Arizona Geology [05:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (695 visits) info
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AZGS geologists Jeri Young and Phil Pearthree pulled out four of the seven portable seismometers deployed in the area around June's M5.2 earthquake near Duncan, Arizona.  The portable instruments were [...]

Nuclear experiments 

Mente et malleo: by thought and hammer [06:32:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (679 visits) info
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The last 4 days I have been doing a neutron diffraction experiments at Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). It has been quite an experience, a very cool one actually. I have been [...]

Eruption update at 15:24 UTC 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [17:24:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (642 visits) info
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This is a short update on the eruption north of Vatnajökull glacier. The eruption has its origin in Bárðarbunga volcano. This information is going to get outdated quickly. North end of the eruption fissure [...]

Ein falscher Fisch aus der böhmischen Kreideformation 

kreidefossilien.de [23:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (215 visits) info
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 AU
Vollständige Exemplare und Reste von Exemplaren der Gattung Hoplopteryx (Beryciformes) wurden bereits in den "klassischen" Monographien des 19. Jahrhunderts von Louis Agassiz und August Emanuel Reuss [...]

Fault Tree Analysis of Tailings Failure—Maybe Now Mt Polley’s Turn 

I think mining [23:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info

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At this link is a great Master thesis recently completed by Genki Taguchi, a student of the University of British Columbia.  He is now back in Japan working in the coal mining industry.  Dirk Van Zyl [...]

How Hot Is Your City? 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:47:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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You’ve probably heard about the urban heat island effect, but I bet you do not realize is how much it affects your weather (and how much it costs you in cooling costs). The folks at Climate Central put [...]

Discordança progressiva de Sant Salvador de les Espases (Baix Llobregat) 

Bloc de camp [01:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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Els llocs de frontera sempre són interessants. A la interfície entre sistemes sempre passen coses.  En altres ocasions he fet referència a l'interessant patrimoni geològic que atresora l'espai entre el [...]
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