latimes.com It was a perfect fall weekend, with sunny skies and the prospect of colorful autumn foliage. Hundreds of people flocked to Mt. Ontake in central Japan, planning to hike to its volcanic summit. READ MORE Japan’s Mount Ontake Erupted Suddenly Over the Weekend smithsonianmag.com Over the weekend, the Mount Ontake volcano—a popular hiking spot in
Das Kinder von Natur aus neugierig sind, und dass man diese Eigenschaft nach Kräften unterstützen sollte, ist ja keine so weltbewegend neue Erkenntnis, möchte man meinen. Und wenn man die Neugier und die [...]
Take a break this afternoon for some Southern Utah daydreams with this fun read on The Vortex in the Red Mountain Wilderness. suindependent.com The Vortex If you go: Drive up SR-18 towards Dammeron Valley. [...]
By: Erica Bower When I enrolled in the Sustainable Development Capstone course last September, I would never have imagined that this class would take me to a Systems Dynamics Conference in the Netherlands. As [...]
I got a nice tip from Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Reicherter about some good structure from motion (SfM) and lidar links at the Technical University Dresden:SfM software review (in German)Laser scanning software and [...]
We know this weekend was a soggy one for most of us here in Utah. Here’s an article talking about some of the flooding around the state after this last weekend’s heavy rains. We hope everyone is [...]
Amy West is the science writer and outreach and education officer for the JOIDES Resolution, a drill ship operated by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) that is on a two-month expedition studying [...]
Diseño de camiseta de Julia Sonmi Heglund, ilustradora de Los Angeles (California, Estados Unidos) que incluye en un mismo conjunto musical, "The Extinct", a un dodo, un mamut y un anquilosaurio. Se puede [...]
It continued with a wonderful fall.
The maples are in full glory and everybody should be out to see them.
On the drive up, we had to brake hard twice for turkeys crossing the road. They would make quite [...]
Sometimes I don't have to take pictures, since I can always steal one. I took the north route to the cottage over by Beaverton and ran into two of these monstrosities being built. That annoyed me more than [...]
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"It's my personal belief," he said, "that the well water operator dialed it down to make them stop."
This is a great article. If this seismologist becomes an Italian [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:59:25]
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This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays image was taken by Prof. Konstantinos Kourtidis, in Alykes, along the southern coast of Thassos island, where he photographed the beautifully white marbles that outcrop along [...]
D.N. Lee has a post up at her Scientific American blog that needs to be read right now. Here’s a pull quote, but read the entire thing. Now. No excuses. I know the SAFE research focused on...
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Snow-capped peaks above Hope Valley
What a difference a week can make! Seven days ago I was in the Owens Valley and eastern Sierra Nevada, and though we got a bit of inclement weather, it was a warm storm, [...]
Studying the Atmosphere of Mars NASA The World’s Largest Ore Carrier Mining.com 31 Feared Dead at Mount Ontake Sydney Morning Herald Video: Running from the Ash Cloud at Mount Ontake ABC News Australia [...]
Tres son los grandes artistas del mundo de la paleoilustración, tres enormes profesionales con un gran talento, los cuales, durante el siglo XX, sentaron las bases y sirvieron de inspiración para todos los [...]
WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [06:34:17]
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Two Ocean Lake is a gorgeous place for a hike. Tucked into a northeastern corner of Grand Teton National Park, it is a relic of the last ice age. During late spring and into summer, wildflowers are colorful [...]
I must have mentioned my goal of running a sub-3h marathon at some point. It was always likely to be a little ambitious, as running time calculators (which estimate likely times based on other races, eg here) [...]
When glaciers erode landscapes, they often leave behind characteristic U-shaped valleys. This week’s Monday Geology Picture shows a U-shaped glacial valley on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska. This valley [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [20:46:00]
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Con motivo del congreso realizado en Tremp (Lleida) “Reconstructing the terrestrial end-Cretaceous palaeoenvironments in Europe” organizado por el ICP (Institut Català de Paleontologia) y la [...]
Last week
was the 57th Annual Meeting of AEG in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was a
spectacular meeting and one that I was proud to be a part of. For me, the most
significant part of the meeting is that I officially [...]
How did those big crystals of blue quartz get locked into the pink granite of Mudd Hall? How come they’re blue? In Part 3 of the Columbia Geology Tour, David Walker of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [...]
The industry of reconstructing extinct animals in illustration, sculpture and animation - we all know it as 'palaeoart' - is a paradoxical place. One the one hand, there is more demand for palaeoart than there [...]
Over the weekend, I ran a 1-credit field course for NOVA, on the geology of Shenandoah National Park. I was about eight minutes early getting to the meet-up location, so that allowed me to check out a [...]
The new ELI, published today, 'Seasons: the effect of our tilted Earth' is the last in this 'Earth in space' series. It involves an indoor demonstration which explains the changing seasons very clearly.
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Impact breccia, or “impactite” is a rare rock type produced by the impact of an asteroid with the Earth. Large impacts can crush millions of tons of rock and scatter the debris over large areas. If [...]
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Neues Lehrvideo der BGR: Im BGR Projekt FLIN (Freshwater Lens
Creados en 1991 por Sheryl Madison Lancaster y Dennis Lancaster en Tracy (California, Estados Unidos), los "Dangerous Dinos" son Bubba (un bebé estegosaurio de dos años), Rocko Gecko (un estiracosaurio de [...]
I’ve written frequently here about conspiracy theories, and it’s something that has long fascinated me (and many meteorologists as well, thanks to the chemtrail folks). I spotted a great piece on [...]
Recently, I got a rare opportunity hunt for fossils in the Waldron Shale and a number of fossils were found. Nothing earth shattering but it was fun to get out after a long absence to poke around and see some [...]
Konzerngewinn 65,4 Mio. Euro/ Liquide Mittel in Höhe von 122 Mio. Euro Heidelberg. Durch die Veräußerung der wesentlichen Vermögensgegenstände von Tekton Energy konnte der Deutsche Rohstoff-Konzern im [...]
So I've made it across the country, and I'm now happily settled in California and getting used to my new job as a postdoc with the USGS! However, being a federal employee means I have different regulations to [...]
We have made it to mountainous Keelung, and everyone on board was greeted by pretty views surrounding the port and dancers and drummers [...]