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Thursday, 02 October 2014

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Minor earthquake swarm in TFZ (Tjörnes Fracture Zone) 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:57:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
Today (02-Octorber-2014) there was an minor earthquake swarm in TFZ. Largest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude of 3,3. This activity is only tectonic in nature, this earthquake activity is not connected to any volcanism activity. Earthquake … Continue reading

Internship Opportunity for Millennium Villages 

State of the Planet [23:48:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
As the Earth Institute’s monitoring and evaluation team gears up for its final evaluation of 10 Millennium Village sites, we are currently recruiting a qualitative research assistant intern to support field researchers conducting process evaluation studies across East and West

Senators Critique Proposed Federal Rules for Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Indian Lands 

Mineral Law Blog [22:49:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info

 IN
On September 30, 2014, a block of twelve Democratic U.S. Senators presented a letter to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”), urging stricter fracking regulations.  The Bureau of [...]

An earthquake poem for Halloween 

Ontario-geofish [21:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info

 US
This is verry scarry.  Keep it away from little kids.  I've put out the scary pumpkins, and now in celebration of the big Kansas M4.4, I present this: Earthquake Halloween This is not the friendly monster [...]

Silt fills reservoir’s inlets after flooding in southern Utah 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info

 US
fox13now.com Cities in southern Utah are still cleaning up the mess from a flash flood that fell in the area on Saturday. The storm brought down a lot of water, but it also brought down a lot of dirt. READ

Scratch Until You See The Facets Of Their Eyes 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [18:23:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info

 US
Hello Fellow Dinophiles! Still scratching that Flexicalymene from the Antes formation, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.  Going is slow, and even trying to finish my new blog post has been challenging … [...]

Bulan Kembali Merah 8 Oktober 2014. 

Dogeng Geology [15:59:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info

 ID,IN,FI
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Fenomena unik Bulan Merah (Blood Moon) akan terlihat pada tanggal 8 Oktober 2014, saat gerhana bumi total. Di Indonesia dapat terlihat mulai sekitar jam 17.25 WIB sampai pukul 18.24 WIB baru bisa dilihat warga [...]

Happy Karl Terzaghi's Birthday 2014! 

GeoPrac.net [14:53:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (654 visits) info

 US
It's October 2 again, and today would have been Karl Terzaghi's 131st birthday. As I was reflecting on Terzaghi and some of his quotes, I was reading a passage from Professor's Goodman's biography1 that [...]

Unser Projektmanager Sascha Alter im Interview 

Natursteine-Blog [10:27:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
Neue Ideen braucht das Land Sascha Alter ist seit wenigen Wochen bei jonastone als Projektmanager an Bord und verfolgt viele neue, aufregende Ideen, um unsere Kunden auch weiterhin zu begeistern. ... mehr

Readers’ Experiences with Creationist Education 

Rosetta Stones [09:42:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
Our preliminary foray into the world of creationist earth science education encouraged many of you to share your own stories. I want to make sure they don’t languish unread in the comments... -- Read [...]

Schizophoria ferronensis from the Silica Shale 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info

 Devonian; IT,US
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Schizophoria is a genus of brachiopods that I have not personally collected much. I don't often find it in my preferred Middle Devonian outcrops and am aware of it mostly from the Upper Midwest portion of [...]

Pembalikan peta politik energi dunia 

Dogeng Geology [05:58:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info

 US
Pembalikan politik energi. Harus diakui Amerika menyalip Saudi dalam memproduksi minyaknya. Kesuksesan US dengan shale oil dan shale gas membuat peta kekuatan energi dunia bergeser. Walaupun konsumsi US masih [...]

Ozeanversauerung & ihre Folgen 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [05:09:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
BIOACID präsentiert neue deutschsprachige Broschüre „Ozeanversauerung: Zusammenfassung für Entscheidungsträger“ komprimiert

Seeing Stars with James Wooten: Two eclipses for the price of one! 

BEYONDbones [02:58:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
This month, Mars remains in the southwest at dusk this month as it pulls away from Antares in Scorpius. Mars continues to fade a little each night as Earth continues to leave it farther behind.  Saturn drops [...]

Kansas may be opening another earthquake mechanism 

Ontario-geofish [00:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info

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I'm just joking around here.  One earthquake all by itself does not an injection site make.  After all, there are completely natural and organic earthquakes.  But it's right along the Grenville Front [...]

E. coli in Seattle…Almost 

New Stories in Stone [21:38:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info

 US
The recent scare of E. coli near Seattle got me thinking about ... [ continue

Kansas M4.4 earthquake - Toto, this isn't stable Kansas anymore! 

Ontario-geofish [20:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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I'm working on my Halloween Earthquake Monster poem, which I would release on that day, or a big earthquake, whatever came first.  I better hurry up! Nothing to say, except that this is a much bigger version [...]

At the request of NASA, UGS Geologist provides Utah-related names for Mars rover mission. 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:04:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info

 US
Good morning, everyone! At the request of NASA, Tom Chidsey (geologist for the UGS) supplied a list of Utah-related names for use during the current operations of the Mars Curiosity rover mission. As the rover [...]

geese 

drip | david’s really interesting pages... [18:05:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info

Wind Turbine or Tree? Certain Bats Might Not Know 

Geology.com News [15:43:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info

 IN
The study, led by U.S. Geological Survey scientist Paul Cryan, was the first to use video surveillance cameras to watch bats for several months flying at night near experimentally manipulated wind turbines and [...]

How Are Diagenetic Studies Useful In Understanding Sedimentary Basin History 

Reporting on a Revolution [12:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info

 Paleozoic; KZ
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I dusted of my PhD dissertation last week for two reasons. A friend insisted that she wanted to see my research.. and then this paper in the Journal of Sedimentary Research (behind paywall): Diagenetic [...]

Spinosaurus su National Geographic! 

Theropoda [09:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info

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Vi segnalo il numero di Ottobre 2014 del National Geographic, dedicato a Spinosaurus e ricco di fotografie del fossile, del mitico Stromer e dei protagonisti della ricerca. L'articolo è riccamente illustrato [...]

La prehistoria belga según Cowboy Henk 

Koprolitos [09:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info

 BE
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Animales prehistóricos con tupé y otras bizarradas del mismo calado nos ofrecen Herr Seele y Kamagurka en Histoire de la Belgique (por tous), el último álbum protagonizado por su personaje Cowboy Henk. Por [...]

October 2, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info

 US,CA,
Water Vapor on an Exoplanet NASA Canada Oil and Gas Report Energy Information Administration Fracking Under the Ohio River Charlotte Observer Disturbance in a Hydrocarbon Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan NASA [...]

My 5th Pair of Reviews 

ART Evolved: Life's Time Capsule [05:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info

 Jurassic; US,AT,CN
As an Art Evolved member, I post a pair of my reviews here every so often, the 1st being positive & the 2nd being negative. I'd greatly appreciate you reading & voting "Yes" for said reviews in the [...]

Castanea Plant Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info

 Neogene; IT
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Here is a picture of a Castanea kubinyi plant leaf fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Plants like this existed at the time of the Miocene Epoch of the Neogene [...]

In the footsteps of Charles Darwin: Geological excursion into the Central Andes 

Wooster Geologists [02:58:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info

 US
MENDOZA, ARGENTINA–Today I had one of the finest geological field trips in my life. The scenery was stunning, the geology extraordinary, and the history deeply moving. Being able to share the experience [...]

Simple Tailings Cover is Too SImple 

I think mining [00:07:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
A simple cover for a tailings facility may be no more than a layer of compacted tailings overlain by soil in which vegetation can grow. If control of infiltration is not required, this cover may be cost [...]
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