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Tuesday, 07 October 2014

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The Sequoia Underground: An Exploration of Crystal Cave 

Geotripper [09:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (663 visits) info
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It's true that Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park can hardly be described as a wild cave. Since its discovery in 1918 and its development as a park attraction in 1940, the cave has been visited by more than a million people. Dynamite was used by workers to widen passageways, and besides the lighting and pathways, there was a generator, and underground bathrooms. And yet there is

I EDICION DEL CERTAMEN DE RELATOS GEOLÓGICOS “ÉRASE UNA VEZ LA GEOLOGÍA” 

Geosfera [12:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (649 visits) info
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 Está próxima la fecha de finalización de la recogida de relatos geológicos dentro de su primera edición (hasta el 31 de Octubre de este mes), y queríamos invitaros a participar en la modalidad juvenil de 12 a 16 años, para todos los alumnos de centro escolares de ESO, y la modalidad de adultos para los alumnos de Bachillerato, y por qué no, profesores y alumnos de la carrera de Geología.El ganador de cada modalidad será premiado con un pack de instrumental geológico, y con la [...]

Strong winds and heavy rain affect parts of the UK 

Climate and Geohazards [15:38:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (593 visits) info
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Originally posted on Met Office News Blog:After an exceptionally dry September, the UK has seen its first bout of widespread heavy rain and strong winds so far this autumn. An area of low pressure centred [...]

Daspletosaurus reconstruction progressing: Pete III 

RMDRC paleo lab [19:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (233 visits) info
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You know, I think I'm just going to share some pictures as an update to my last blog post. We'll keep the reading part short and sweet. Restoration is coming along well. The skull is up next, and in the [...]

Faculty Position in Earth and Planetary Science. University of California 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [15:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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Faculty Position in Earth and Planetary ScienceThe University of California, Berkeley Department of Earth and Planetary Science invites applications for a position at the Assistant Professor level with an [...]

POTD October 7, 2014: Mount Nebo and the southern Wasatch Range, Juab County, Utah 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:06:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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Mount Nebo and the southern Wasatch Range, Juab County, Utah Photographer: Adam McKean; ©

Tree-following: that first question 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [15:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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Do you remember that first question ... back in February when the cottonwoods were leafless, the ground in snow, and the river under ice? “Is this a single individual, connected underground?”Time [...]

"Wasser auf Asteroiden war notwendig" / Studie zur Entstehung organischer Moleküle 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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     Schon im frühen Sonnensystem fanden chemische Reaktionen, die aus ursprünglichen organischen Molekülen neue Verbindungen entstehen ließen, in wässrigen Fluiden statt. Darauf weist eine neue [...]

This week @HMNS: Making physics cool and celebrating 25 years at the George 

BEYONDbones [03:00:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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This series is about events happening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. For more information about HMNS, our exhibits and programming, please visit HMNS.org.   THURSDAY, OCT. 9FILM SCREENING: [...]

New species of dinosaur unearthed in Utah earns the name ‘Nose King’ 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:01:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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Good morning friends! How many of you read about Utah’s newest Dinosaur dubbed the ‘Nose King’? Read more about this dinosaur and its prominent nose! fox13now.com Scientists recently [...]

Pyrite Trepospira Gastropod Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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This gastropod fossil is interesting as it pyrite embedded in a dark shale. It appears to be a Trepospira. It was found in a coal mine at a depth of 60-250 meters. My identification source is Fossils of Ohio [...]

Linux - The New Samba 

Ontario-geofish [13:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
Further to my adventures of reinstalling my main machine, I have discovered the New Samba.  What a shock!  Anyway, they've gone full out with security, and it makes difficult for a small network, where all [...]

Fenster in die Vergangenheit - Uralte Sedimente am Meeresgrund der Arktis gefunden 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
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     Ein internationales Team von Wissenschatlern unter Leitung des Alfred-Wegener-Institutes, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI) hat auf der jetzt endenden Sommerexpedition des [...]

PeTOD 

Koprolitos [09:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
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La PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) es una organización por los derechos de los animales radicada en los Estados Unidos, y con más de dos millones de miembros en todo el mundo. En este [...]

Landslides in the movies part 1: The Croods 

The Landslide Blog [09:00:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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Part 1 of a series looking at how landslides are depicted in movies. This edition looks at a rockfall sequence in the animated movie The Croods

UGS Earth Science Week begins today! 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [02:23:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
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We’re celebrating #EarthScienceWeek this week! The Utah Geological Survey hosts hands-on activities for school groups (usually 4th and 5th graders) during October. Here, students join Utah State [...]

Tailings and Mine Waste 2014: Mt Polley in Focus 

I think mining [04:03:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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The first day of presentations at the Tailings and Mine Waste 2014 Conference.  Gordon McPhail delivered a talk in honor of Geoff Blight, who passed away earlier this year.  Geoff made so many contributions [...]

Non-linear acoustic and seismic 

Ontario-geofish [14:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
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Reference It's a stretch to bring this to earthquakes, but that's what I do.  I'm glad they are doing this in the lab, since I was looking at this for earthquakes 30 years ago.  Non-linearity simply means [...]

Flying Spaghetti Monster And Raptor Jesus 

Koprolitos [01:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
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Welcome! 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [00:32:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
Welcome to my blog! Here you’ll find interesting tidbits of dino stuff that might be really interesting to you. Um…. and… yup, that’s it. I’ll start blogging more later on when I [...]

Arctic Oil and Gas Production and Potential 

Energy Policy Blog [18:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (57 visits) info
Arctic exploration and production is heating up: Shell plans to resume drilling in the arctic offshore Alaska in 2015, and in the spring of 2015 the U.S. is assuming the leadership of the Arctic Council, an [...]

The Damned Dromaeosaurs of Stock Image Island 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (586 visits) info
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If you have not read Witton, Naish, and Conway's State of the Palaeoart, make a point of doing so. The article is the culmination of a discussion that seems to have begun in earnest back in the spring of 2011, [...]

A Ticker Tape Record of Alpine Fault Earthquakes 

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The famous NASA image of New Zealand's South Island clearly shows the trace of the Alpine Fault along the straight western edge of the Southern Alps. This oblique Google Earth view of the West Coast shows the [...]

Geologists: The Cowboys of Science 

Looking for Detachment [20:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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A colleague of my former (deceased) husband once said, "Archaeologists are the Cowboys of Science." (I don't know if he actually said it in Capital Letters like that, but that's how it came across to [...]

Bárðarbunga daily update for 6-October-2014 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [03:07:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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This information is going to get outdated quickly. Bad weather Bad weather is expected in Iceland for the next few days. Storm can be expected to take place. I am not sure on the details. Check Icelandic Met [...]

Michigan State’s Robotic Glider To Study Great Lakes Fish 

Lake Scientist [17:02:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
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A robotic fish project at Michigan State University is expanding thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation, according to a release from the university. The increased support will allow[...] The [...]

Detecting avalanches from sounds we can’t hear 

AGU Meetings [15:19:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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Researchers have developed a new avalanche monitoring method that uses sound below the range of human hearing to detect and track these deadly and destructive snow slides. The technique can detect an avalanche [...]

Geosonnet 13 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [22:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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The rhyolite of Huckleberry Ridge Discharged a hundred cubic miles yield The timing of this eruption did bridge Reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field. We measure timing of this ancient blast With argon [...]

Oh darn, another Oklahoma M4.0 earthquake 

Ontario-geofish [23:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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I'm not in the mood for that whole place falling apart right now.  I have created a fictional bubble that nothing was going to happen there (cognitive therapy), and this earthquake was the pin.  :( So, I [...]

Phreatic eruptions – the silent assasins 

Between a Rock and a Hard Place [08:00:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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The recent eruption of Mt Ontake, Japan tragically killed at least 50 hikers who were on the volcano at the time. Within hours of the eruption taking place, social media was flooded with first-hand video [...]

Interpretazione elementare del processo di formazione delle idee - Di Sandro Secci 

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Ho conosciuto Sandro Secci quando ero curatore della mostra delle farfalle al Tepidarium: ricordo quella persona con cui mi misi a parlare di evoluzione, adattamenti ed altro e che poi mi venne a trovare di [...]

Paleoecología de los titanosaurios de América del Sur 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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Los titanosaurios siguen pegando fuerte este año. No es inusual para los lectores de este blog ver algún estudio reciente acerca de este diverso grupo que existió hasta el final del Cretácico en todas las [...]

Exkursion: Vorweihnachtliches Erzgebirge 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [14:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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Geotourist führt diese Reise im November: Bergbau, Mineralien & Gesteine

October 7, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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A Veteran “Volcano Climber” on Ontake’s Surprise EruptionNational Geographic Chevron Sells Duvernay Shale Stake to KuwaitReuters Shell Suspends Russian Tight Oil ProjectRigZone Exxon-Mobil on [...]

Mean Sea Level Trend 

Geology.com News [04:31:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
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This figure shows changes in global mean sea level as measured by satellite altimetry (NASA/CNES Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1; and NASA/CNES/NOAA/EUMETSAT Jason-2) between 1992 to 2012. The data have been [...]

Garnet – The Gem of Many Colors 

Geology.com News [08:15:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
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Most people think of a red gem when they hear the word “garnet”; however, garnet occurs in a wide range of colors. It also has industrial use in a number of cutting, abrasive, water filtration and [...]

Draining Ocean Basins with CryoSat-2 

Geology.com News [08:05:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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What would the Earth look like if we could drain the oceans? Scripps Institution of Oceanography and others have created a new map of Earth’s seafloor, that is at least twice as detailed and accurate as [...]

Un nuevo aragosaurero para estudiar pterosaurios 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [23:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
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Estamos de enhorabuena, en estos tiempos de dificultades, nos han concedido un beca PPU para investigar pterosaurios. Se trata de unos contratos predoctorales de cuatro años que permite formar a los nuevos [...]

Seattle Map 3 = Manhole Covers 

New Stories in Stone [02:38:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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My guess is that most people walk right over my favorite maps ... [ continue

Arctic Oil and Gas Production and Potential 

Energy Policy Blog [18:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info
Arctic exploration and production is heating up: Shell plans to resume drilling in the arctic offshore Alaska in 2015, and in the spring of 2015 the U.S. is assuming the leadership of the Arctic Council, an [...]
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