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
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 [...]
Climate and Geohazards [15:38:09]
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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 [...]
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 ScienceThe University of California, Berkeley Department of Earth and Planetary Science invites applications for a position at the Assistant Professor level with an [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:06:37]
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Mount Nebo and the southern Wasatch Range, Juab County, Utah Photographer: Adam McKean; ©
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [15:48:00]
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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 [...]
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 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: [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:01:28]
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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 [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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
[...]
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 [...]
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
Utah Geological Survey - blog [02:23:14]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:00:00]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [03:07:29]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place [08:00:38]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:49:00]
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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 [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [14:45:00]
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Geotourist führt diese Reise im November: Bergbau, Mineralien & Gesteine
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My guess is that most people walk right over my favorite maps ... [ continue
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 [...]