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Saturday, 27 September 2014

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Sensitivity of precipitation isotope meteoric water lines and seasonal signals to sampling frequency and location 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [22:21:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (611 visits) info
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 presenting there. SENSITIVITY OF PRECIPITATION ISOTOPE METEORIC WATER LINES AND SEASONAL SIGNALS TO SAMPLING

Wooster Geologist over the Andes 

Wooster Geologists [19:24:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info

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MENDOZA, ARGENTINA–I have just arrived in Argentina for the Fourth International Palaeontological Congress to be held in this city all next week. I thank me colleagues at Wooster for making this possible, especially Shelley Judge who is teaching my History of Life class in my absence. I also thank the Faculty Development Fund at Wooster.

Ontake, Japan, erupts 

Geology in Motion [18:10:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info

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Ontake erupts. Photo by andreijejune as cited above.The eruption started around 11:53 a.m. Saturday, localtime (in spite of the setting in the caption above)A few hours ago, Mount Ontake 155 miles west of [...]

Does anyone want a project? How can we understand sauropod neck cartilage better? 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [17:45:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info

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A couple of times now, I’ve pitched in an abstract for a Masters project looking at neck cartilage, hoping someone at Bristol will work on it with me co-supervising, but so far no-one’s bitten. [...]

Curiosity Rover Drilling on Mars 

Geology.com News [17:04:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has collected its first drill sample from the base of Mount

[jules' pics] Pen-y-ghent 

James’ Empty Blog [16:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info

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Not sure whether to go backwards, forwards, or randomly in time with my backlog of unblogged photos. This one was taken yesterday. Sun continues unabated. Well, OK, so there is the occasional heavy [...]

September 27, 2014 

Geology.com News [13:55:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info

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Mount Ontake Eruption Surprises Climbers CTV News A “Virtual Pipeline” for Natural Gas Boston Globe 122 Carat Light Blue Diamond Mined at Cullinan The Independent Underwater Landslide Doubled 2011 [...]

Nuevo dinosaurio del Jurásico portugués: Eousdryosaurus 

DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [10:00:34]  recommend  1 recommendations  (134 visits) info

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El último número de la revista Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (34/5) publica la descripción de un nuevo de dinosaurio del Jurásico Superior de Portugal: Eousdryosaurus. Cladograma que muestra la [...]

Shaking Things Up in Mammoth Lakes: Hundreds of Earthquakes in 24 Hours 

Geotripper [08:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info

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Source: http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/119-38.html These things seem to happen whenever I have just left a place. I was in Mammoth Lakes only a week ago. There have been upwards of a thousand [...]

The Las Aromas serpentinite 

Oakland Geology [05:51:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info

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The southern edge of the Piedmont Pines neighborhood butts against Joaquin Miller Park, and there’s no reason to visit if you don’t happen to live there—except if you like serpentinite. The [...]

Geoscientists Are Descending on Vancouver 

GeoMika [02:47:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info

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Vancouver is drawing geoscientists into its grasp this October with the arrival of the Geological Society of America meeting. If you’re coming to the science-party, here’s a few ideas on how to [...]

Shear Beauty along the Highway 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info

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Crenulated beds (chevron folds) with alpine phlox.Wyoming Highway 130 crosses the Medicine Bow Mountains west of Laramie.  Immediately beyond the turnoff to Brooklyn Lake are some low dull-brown slopes [...]

Toothed Birds, A Preview 

The Bite Stuff [17:39:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
A piece I’ve been mulling around for about a year, but my laziness interfered. No

Pleasure and Guilt from the Unexpected 

Fossils and Other Living Things [16:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info

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How many things have I looked upin a lifetime of looking things up?          ~ Billy Collins, from the poem The Literary LifeI’ve been grappling with guilt over a “treasure” [...]

Meteorites 

Geology.com News [16:14:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
A collection of articles about meteorites by Geoffrey Notkin. They contain information about various types of meteorites, meteorite identification, meteorite hunting and

Big Chew 

Koprolitos [12:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info

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Diseño de camiseta de Aneesh Kumar, ilustrador de Bangalore (India) para Threadless. Quizá por cosas como estas no dejen entrar perros a los museos... Se puede conseguir aquí, por unos 30

JOB OPPPORTUNITY - Geophysicist at Eni, Milan 

Geowaves [08:49:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (104 visits) info
Purpose of Job:To conduct and provide technical support on seismic feasibility study, survey design, acquisition methodologies and parameters validationKey Responsibility AreasKey responsibilities:1) Identify [...]

A Gallery of Sierra Nevada Scenes: Part II 

Geotripper [07:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info

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Alabama Hills near Movie Flats I picked out some more scenes from our recent field studies class in the eastern Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley. Above, the Alabama Hills expose granitic rock essentially [...]

Sea Urchin with Spines 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info

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Here is a picture of a spiny echinoid sea urchin at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Image taken in June
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