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Monday, 29 September 2014

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On Japan’s Mt. Ontake volcano, a perfect day turns deadly for hikers 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:42:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info

 JP
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

Millennium Promise Team to Join Battle Against Ebola in Guinea 

State of the Planet [23:30:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info

 GN,,IN
Locally based community health workers, who bring vital primary health care to underserved populations across sub-Saharan Africa, will join the battle against the deadly Ebola virus through a partnership between the government of Guinea and The Earth

Noch mehr Experimente mit Kindern 

Mente et Malleo [22:06:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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 [...]

Exploring Southern Utah: The Vortex 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:40:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info

 US
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. [...]

Taking Undergraduate Research on the Road 

State of the Planet [20:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info

 NL
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 [...]

Some TU Dresden SfM and lidar links 

Active Tectonics Blog [20:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (50 visits) info

 DE
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 [...]

State of emergency declared in Carbon County after weekend floods 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:25:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info

 US
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 [...]

As expedition ends, scientists crack like deep-sea rocks 

AGU Meetings [16:28:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info

 PH,JP,
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 [...]

The Extinct 

Koprolitos [16:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info

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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 [...]

Cottage Report - S29 

Ontario-geofish [15:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info

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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 [...]

Solar Farms Up North 

Ontario-geofish [15:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info

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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 [...]

Texas Earthquake Conspiracy 

Ontario-geofish [14:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info

 US
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Article "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 [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Marble outcrops 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:59:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info

 GR,US
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 [...]

STEM’s Harassment Problem Goes Well Beyond Field Work 

Rosetta Stones [09:20:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info

 US
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... -- Read [...]

Early Snow in the Sierra Nevada! During a field trip, of course. 

Geotripper [08:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info

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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, [...]

September 29, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info

 US,AU,JP
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 [...]

Ilústranos... Rudolph Zallinger 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [07:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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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 [...]

Summer Wildflowers Along An Ice Age Relic 

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [06:34:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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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 [...]

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James’ Empty Blog [21:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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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) [...]

Monday Geology Picture: U-Shaped Glacial Valley, Seward Peninsula, Alaska 

Georneys [21:22:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info

 US
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 [...]

¿Qué les paso a los cocodrilos europeos en la extinción del límite Cretácico-Terciario? 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [20:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
category→recreation
 Paleogene,Cretaceous; ES,TR,FR,HU,IT,RO,
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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 [...]

The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) 

Geo Slice [19:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info

 US
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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 [...]

At the Corner of Mudd Hall, the Secret of Blue Quartz 

State of the Planet [17:00:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info

 CO
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 [...]

'Support Original Palaeoart': we take it to the mainstream 

markwitton.com blog [16:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info

 DE
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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 [...]

Charnockite at Swift Run Gap 

Mountain Beltway [15:57:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info

 IR
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 [...]

Seasons: the effect of our tilted Earth 

Earth Learning Idea [15:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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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. [...]

What is Impact Breccia ? 

Geology.com News [15:00:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
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 [...]

Schutz von Süßwasserlinsen auf Meeresinseln 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [13:20:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
Neues Lehrvideo der BGR: Im BGR Projekt FLIN (Freshwater Lens

Los dinos no toman drogas 

Koprolitos [10:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info

 US
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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 [...]

The Thin Line Between A Nobel Prize and a Straight-Jacket 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [08:28:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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 [...]

Poking Around in the Waldron Shale 

Louisville Area Fossils [08:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info

 Silurian; US
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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 [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Starkes erstes Halbjahr durch Verkauf Tekton 

Rohstoff Blog [08:01:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
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 [...]

Cross-country recap, and a brief hiatus 

Magma Cum Laude [06:44:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info

 US
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 [...]

Expedition 352 is a wrap! Bon Voyage à Tous 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [03:35:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info

 TW,CN,BR
We have made it to mountainous Keelung, and everyone on board was greeted by pretty views surrounding the port and dancers and drummers [...]
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