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Monday, 22 September 2014

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Cyprimeria Pelecypod Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [02:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info

 Cretaceous; US
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The fossil appears to be Cyprimeria alta pelecypod fossil. It existed during the Cretaceous Period (about 70 million years ago). This fossil was found in McNairy County, Tennessee (Ripley Formation). Fossils from this locality have an identification PDF at this LINK. Learn more about these fossils at the Coon Creek Science Center web

September 22, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info

 US,FR
Fall Gem and Mineral Shows The-Vug.com France Bets on Geothermal Energy New York Times Zhupanovsky Ash Plume NASA Earth Observatory Solar Power in North Carolina Fortune Jadeite Manufacturing Videos and Galleries GIA Thanks to Evolution, No Two Faces are Alike National Geographic Oil Production in the Powder River Basin Doubles in 5 Years Casper Star

Monday Geology Picture(s): Two Views from the Top of Table Mountain 

Georneys [22:23:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info

 US,ZA
My two American geologist friends, with whom I went ziplining amidst some sedimentary rocks a little over a week ago, left on Saturday. Before they left on their evening flight, we decided to go up Cape [...]

Mediospirifer audaculus brachiopod from the Silica Shale 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info

 Devonian; IT,RU,US
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A few months ago I posted about some Mediospirifer audaculus that I'd finally found fully articulated in the Moscow Formation of New York. Now I have a specimen of the same species from the Silica Shale of [...]

MPA Students Join Thousands at People’s Climate March 

State of the Planet [19:06:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info

 US
Members of the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy Class of 2015 joined a group of an estimated 400,000 New Yorkers and people from across the globe as members the People’s Climate March on Sunday, [...]

Fall Flower Selfies 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [18:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info

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Sunflower selfie (Helianthus annuus).“Selfie” was the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year in 2013: selfie noun, informal (also selfy; plural selfies):  a photograph that one has taken of [...]

A Rather Important Anniversary 

Rosetta Stones [00:48:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
I’m terrible at remembering anniversaries and worse at communication, so this post commemorating an important anniversary is a day late. Lockwood reminded me that yesterday marked our fourth... -- Read [...]

IAEG 2014 Download 

Geo Slice [17:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info

 IT,US,CN
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I’m sitting in the airport in Milan, Italy at the start of my long journey back to Flagstaff, Arizona*. I’ve had a wonderful week in Torino, Italy at the IAEG2014 Congress, which is held once every 4 years [...]

Winding Down and Looking Forward 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [21:18:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
We’re in our last week of Expedition 352, and for our scientific ambitions, time is everything –  Will there be time to drill deep enough to [...]

Quote of the Week – 22nd Sept 2014 

Climate and Geohazards [11:26:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
“Tackling climate change is one of our greatest economic opportunities.” Barack

Building Blocks from the Mississippian Sea 

State of the Planet [15:00:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info

 Carboniferous; US
The Columbia Geology Tour, Part 2: Take a trip back 350 million years to the shallow seas of the Mississippian that covered what is now the U.S. Midwest -- source of the finely crafted limestone columns and [...]

New dinosaur species with giant nose discovered in Utah 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:40:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info

 US
For all the big noses out there, the biggest nose has just arrived. Read more about the recently discovered dinosaur in Utah and its giant nose. Think the nose always knows? Researchers say similar dinosaurs [...]

Geology | Fires have scarred forests for millions of years 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:29:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
dispatch.com Prehistoric life on Earth can seem so strange, with the plants and animals resembling something out of a science-fiction novel about an alien planet. READ

Mars on Earth: How Utah’s Fantastical Moqui Marbles Formed 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:01:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info

 Jurassic; US
livescience.com Hikers rambling through Utah’s candy-striped canyons sometimes come across a strange-looking sight. Where the Navajo Sandstone loses its iconic peach, orange and red stripes, hundreds of [...]

Bárðarbunga volcano daily update 22-September-2014 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [16:47:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
This information is going to get outdated quickly. Current status in Bárðarbunga volcano at 14:47 UTC The largest earthquake so far is magnitude 4,8 in Bárðarbunga caldera. There is however continued [...]

Weekend summary - s22 

Ontario-geofish [13:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
Actually, there is nothing to report.  I stayed home this weekend, nursing my cold.  The rest of the week looks beautiful, and I'll go to the cottage with the dog again.  No earthquakes whatsoever.  If we [...]

La evolución humana de Juarma López 

Koprolitos [08:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info

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Desde que realizó "Maldita tristeza", su primer fanzine autoeditado en 2002, el dibujante de Deifontes (Granada, España) Juarma López ha llevado por bandera el humor crudo y sin concesiones como forma de [...]

WaDokei: Attuning to Temporal Time 

Friends of the Pleistocene [14:27:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
video: bohinic (This video demonstrates how the hour indicators are moved in proportion, from equal spacing at the equinoxes, to close spacing on one half and wide spacing on the other as the year approaches [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: The Final Effort 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:30:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
We’ve all been there: long hours in the field, a task that seems never ending but which has to be finished today. This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays image is brought to you by Patrick Klenk who highlights the [...]

Wheelbarrow handles for vertebrae? The cervical rib bundles of Sauroposeidon and other sauropods 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [05:39:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
We have good descriptions of the proximal parts of the cervical ribs for lots of sauropods. We also have histological cross-sections of a few, mostly thanks to the work of Nicole Klein and colleagues (Klein et [...]

The Spinosaurus hindlimb controversy: a detailed response from the authors 

markwitton.com blog [11:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info

 Mesozoic
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No-one with an interest in Mesozoic reptiles will have missed the week of controversy following Ibrahim et al.'s (2014) new reconstruction of Spinosaurus. The most important debate has focused on the allegedly [...]

Big Geotechnical Accident 

Ontario-geofish [17:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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On the dog walk today.  So neat. So the story starts like this.  The ground is getting soupier and soupier.  They're on the edge of a slope and I knew there would be a problem. Boom! This [...]

Spinosaurus Revolution, Offtopic: Spinosaur Paleobiology, more than just photoshopping images 

Theropoda [22:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
Sono passati undici giorni dalla pubblicazione dello studio di Ibrahim et al. (2014) relativo a nuovi resti di Spinosaurus ed alle implicazioni di tale scoperta. In questi undici giorni ho mantenuto un [...]

Hands-on experiences with stable isotopes in the geosciences curriculum 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [22:08:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info

 CA,US
The Watershed Hydrology lab will be out in force for the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Vancouver in October. Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing the abstracts of the work we are [...]

Take it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate 

Earth Learning Idea [18:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
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'Take it or leave it? – the geoconservation debate; when is collecting wrong, and when is it right? – try to decide for yourself'Should you take geological specimens away from the site where they are [...]

Washed Up - Simon's Cat 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info

Damnation film screening in Cleveland on Wednesday 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [17:19:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info

 US
If you haven’t seen it yet, and you are at all interested in dams and dam removal (or are even wondering why people would be interested in dam removal), I encourage you to watch the film Damnation. The [...]

Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing 

Geology.com News [20:08:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
Marathon Oil has published a video that illustrates the hydraulic fracturing

Tagung: 25 Jahre Boden-Dauerbeobachtung in Schleswig-Holstein 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [08:57:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info

 DE
Ergebnisse, Fortschritte und Entwicklung im bundesweiten Vergleich: Wann: 5./6.11.14 Wo:

Sea arch in pyroclastic deposits, Santorini, Greece 

Mountain Beltway [13:14:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info

 GR
A series of blog posts on the geology of Santorini and Athens, Greece begins with a look at a sea arch on the south shore of

Driest start to September in over 50 years 

Climate and Geohazards [11:17:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info

 GB
Originally posted on Met Office News Blog:The first half of September has been exceptionally dry across much of the UK and temperatures for many areas have also been well above average, according to [...]
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