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What was here in Australia 500 thousand years ago…
Australia is one of the most unique continents on the planet, in the Ice Age period, Australia was the only continent remaining dominated by Reptiles. Australia will always have the perfect environment for new evolutionary experiments, in the Ice Age period Australia possessed far from cute, cuddly,
New gravity maps prepared using data from NASA’s GRAIL spacecraft reveal that Oceanus Procellarum, the largest lunar maria, was not formed by a massive asteroid impact. Instead, it was originally a low area flooded by lavas from an extensive rift system. This discovery appears to rewrite the geologic history for the near side of the
A geophysicist who has spent much of his career studying Earth’s neighboring planets as well as the Earth itself, will receive the nation’s top scientific honor, the National Medal of Science. Sean [...]
From composting to ways the Earth can kill you. We've got a bit of everything in this week's roundup. Continue reading
After a really super-long break, we're back with the 65th post in the Mesozoic Miscellany series. I really haven't meant to do these posts so sporadically, but I had some freelance jobs come up that took up a [...]
A study led by researchers at the University of Lille Nord in France has produced a highly reliable count of the world’s lakes, according to Phys.org. The effort, which relied[...]
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A glimpse out an airplane window reveals some Cycladean geology in the Aegean Sea. Somewhere down there among the metamorphic rocks is our Friday fold... but nary a volcano in
The GeoFrankfurt conference took place a few days ago. Due to the large amount of work presented on Eastern Mediterranean Tectonics, a special issue on this topic will be published in the International Journal [...]
A new paper to be published in Geology reports on the use of dating techniques to evaluate the return periods of prehistoric earthquake triggered rockfalls near Christchurch in New
Wildchurch es el proyecto personal de Jack, un británico de mediana edad que tiene la música como hobby, que actualmente reside en Tokio (Japón) y que durante los años 80 y 90 tocó en varias bandas de [...]
A raíz de la publicación a principios del mes de Septiembre de una nueva especie de dinosaurio, Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis, perteneciente a la colección paleontológica de la Sociedade de História Natural [...]
Having had a close up look to the surface trace of the Wairarapa Fault (see recent post here), I thought it would be interesting to find out the latest about what such a major geological structure looks like [...]
Welcome to the third and final part of My Favorite Jurassic Park Scenes. Today we’ll look at my favorite scenes from Jurassic Park 3.
First Scene:
Why I like this scene- I didn’t like how [...]
I've gone into a manic frenzy with these earthquakes, collimating with my poem. I've got no response, so I assume everybody hates it. That's the trouble with us Intellectual Depressive, we get as depressed [...]
This information is going to get outdated quickly if anything happens in Bárðarbunga volcano. Current status in Bárðarbunga volcano at 23:03 UTC The eruption in Holuhraun continues at the same rate as [...]
For this #tbt we’re looking at Mount St. Helens and the beginning of its 2004 eruption. While it wasn’t to the magnitude of its notable 1980 eruption, the 2004-08 eruption resulted in a [...]
From composting to ways the Earth can kill you. We've got a bit of everything in this week's
This is a slightly delayed summary of the sauropod symposium on day 2 of IPC4, following sessions the previous day on vertebrate taphonomy and diversity and extinction in the fossil record. This is also the [...]
On Wednesday, September 17, students in Professor Lynnette Widder's Hungry City Workshop participated in a trip to the Hunts Point Produce Market in the South Bronx, the largest produce market in the world. [...]
A Ruby Deposit in Greenland ? BeMining The Montepuez Ruby MineGemological Institute of America Black Glaciers in Greenland ?Slate Hawaiian Volcano Sends Lava Towards TownNational Geographic Evidence that a [...]
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We continue exploring the biggest conundrums in Earth sciences in this third post of the known unknowns. In the two previous instalments of the series we’ve discovered what the major questions still to be [...]
La Asociación Estudio y Difusión del Patrimonio (EDIPA) presenta la charla-coloquio “Biodiversidad Virtual, una plataforma ciudadana por la Naturaleza” Tendrá lugar el [...]
Well, perhaps not really very much ado. There's a new paper in Climate Dynamics, by Lewis and Curry, with a central sensitivity estimate of 1.6C with a 90% range of 1-4C, based on energy budget analyses over [...]
Enhanced Shuttle Elevation Data NASA Malaysia Oil and Gas Report Energy Information Administration Putting the Gee-Whiz in Geology Washington Post NWT Diamond Exploration Grants Mining.com Snake Handlers [...]
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, several students and I did fieldwork in the Middle Ordovician Kanosh Formation in west-central Utah. One year we were joined by my friend Tim Palmer of the University of [...]
This picture is of a Sigillaria sp. plant fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Plants like this existed at the time of the Carboniferous Period. The fossil was found [...]
Next week we’re bringing you the chance to glimpse back in time to the very beginning of the universe with the critically acclaimed documentary Particle Fever screening Thursday, October 9 in the [...]
Moraine Lake in Banff National Park. Beautiful, but crowded! It's tourist central, along with nearby Lake Louise.
So...what do you get when you take incredibly thick layers of limestone, sandstone and shale [...]
Check the GoPro video of the fissure eruptions of Bardarbunga IcelandHot!!!Harry