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Friday, 03 October 2014

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Ice Age Australia 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [22:49:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
category→science_technology
 AU
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,

Extensive Rift System on the Moon ? 

Geology.com News [21:48:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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

Lamont-Doherty Director Awarded National Medal of Science 

State of the Planet [19:47:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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 [...]

Environmental Earth Science in the News Roundup #3 

Highly Allochthonous [18:55:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
From composting to ways the Earth can kill you. We've got a bit of everything in this week's roundup. Continue reading

the woods 

drip | david’s really interesting pages... [18:48:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info

Mesozoic Miscellany 65 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [17:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info

 Mesozoic; GB,DE,US
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 [...]

Satellite Survey Counts 117 Million Lakes Worldwide 

Lake Scientist [15:48:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info

 FR
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[...] The post Satellite Survey [...]

Friday fold: En route to Santorini over the Cyclades 

Mountain Beltway [14:46:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info

 GR
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

Call for papers: Special Issue of the International Journal of Earth Science on Eastern Mediterranean Tectonics 

Paleoseismicity [12:15:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info

 FR
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 [...]

Prehistoric rockfalls in Christchurch, New Zealand 

The Landslide Blog [10:45:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info

 NZ
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 - She was a Trilobite 

Koprolitos [09:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info

 Devonian; JP
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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 [...]

Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis en los medios 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info

 PT
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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 [...]

Imaging the Crust beneath Wellington 

Julian\'s Blog [05:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (202 visits) info

 JP,NZ,US,CA,AU,KM,
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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 [...]

My Favorite Jurassic Park Scenes Part 3 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [03:07:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info

 Jurassic
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 [...]

Depression hits the Fish -- Good-bye 

Ontario-geofish [02:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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 [...]

Bárðarbunga volcano daily update 02-October-2014 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [01:03:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (641 visits) info
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 [...]

Throwback Thursday October 2, 2014: Mount St. Helens 2004-08 Eruption 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:10:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info

 US
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 [...]

Shields and Spears Art Show Video Promo! 

Coherent Lighthouse [19:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
Hey, this is a

Environmental Earth Science in the News Roundup #3 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [18:53:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
category→recreation
From composting to ways the Earth can kill you. We've got a bit of everything in this week's

IPC Day 2 – The evolution of giants 

Green Tea and Velociraptors [17:36:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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 [...]

MS Students Supplement Coursework with Trip to Hunt’s Point Market 

State of the Planet [16:42:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (50 visits) info
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. [...]

Most Read News: September 2014 

Geology.com News [15:00:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info

 TR,US,CA,GL,IS,MT
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 [...]

The known unknowns – the outstanding 49 questions in Earth sciences (Part III) 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (554 visits) info
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 [...]

Charla- Coloquio Asociación EDIPA: "Biodiversidad Virtual, una plataforma ciudadana por la Naturaleza" 

Geosfera [11:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
category→recreation
 BR,ES
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La Asociación Estudio y Difusión del Patrimonio (EDIPA) presenta la charla-coloquio “Biodiversidad Virtual, una plataforma ciudadana por la Naturaleza”       Tendrá lugar el [...]

Much ado about sensitivity 

James’ Empty Blog [10:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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 [...]

October 3, 2014 

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 Devonian; DZ,MY
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 [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Eocrinoid holdfasts on a Middle Ordovician hardground from Utah 

Wooster Geologists [07:11:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info

 Ordovician; GB,US
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 [...]

Sigillaria Plant Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info

 Carboniferous; IT,US,DE
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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 [...]

We’ve Got the Fever: Particle Fever screening one night only at HMNS! (10/9/14) 

BEYONDbones [02:58:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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 [...]

Northern Convergence: The Incredible Lakes and Glaciers of Banff National Park 

Geotripper [01:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info

 Ordovician; CA
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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 [...]

Bardarbunga Volcano Video 

Central Arizona Geology Club [00:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (616 visits) info
Check the GoPro video of the fissure eruptions of Bardarbunga IcelandHot!!!Harry
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