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Tuesday, 14 October 2014
GSA 2014 Vancouver TweetUp
Are you coming to GSA 2014 in Vancouver? We’re holding a meet-up at Steamworks Brew Pub on Sunday night (October 19th) at 8pm. The venue is less than a 5-minute walk from the conference and across the parking lot from … Continue readingTwo in Row- September Follows August as Hottest on Record. 2014 May Be Hottest Ever.
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:38:17]
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Just like August, September was the hottest on record globally (according to NASA). NOAA maintains a different record, and will report their number any day now. The data sets use slightly different methods, but it’s a good bet that they will show a new record as well. NASA also has a graph showing the heat anomalies by latitude: NOAA’s National Climate Data Center created a very good info graphic that
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Seattle Map 4 – Downtown Catacombs
On November 14, 1960, the Seattle Times ran a story about the ... [ continueJapan’s Lake Mashu Losing Its Famous Clarity
Japan’s Lake Mashu, which has long reigned as one of the world’s clearest, is losing some of its transparent wake, according to The Asahi Shimbun. Changes in water circulation patterns,[...] The post [...]Earth Science Week: Geobingo and the 100 geosites nominations
Day 2 of Earth Science Week saw events happening across the country, from Fort William to Northern Ireland, as well continued coverage of our #100geosites project. Don’t [...]Eye on the Storm
Atmospheric scientist Adam Sobel is author of the new book "Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future." Sobel was one of the first researchers to explain to [...]Using 2 step authentication
Apparently, all a hacker has to do is whine to the support, pretending to be an air-head celebrity, and all the nudies are theirs. To prevent this I have encrypted my devices, and now I use Google 2 factor [...]EGU Awards and Medals 2015
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:40:44]
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Yesterday, the EGU announced the 35 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Young Scientists Awards. The aim of the awards is to recognise the efforts of [...]
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Died This Day: Thomas Davidson
May 17, 1817 – Oct. 14, 1885 Davison was a Scottish naturalist and paleontologist who became known as an authority on brachiopods. His major work, Monograph of British Fossil Brachiopoda, was published by [...]Das neue Ruhrgebiet
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [13:30:14]
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Die Fachzeitschrift “Praxis Geographie” widmet sich dem “Ruhrpott” mal anders:
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motion blur test
drip | david’s really interesting pages... [12:38:20]
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Bay Area Chance of a Lifetime: See Tanya Atwater at the Randall Museum!
This Thursday, Tanya Atwater will be speaking at San Francisco’s Randall Museum. For free! Her talk is about Living in the Plate Boundary, and it sounds awesomesauce: Superstar Geophysicist... -- Read [...]Landscapes of Ladakh (2)
Further photographs showing the varied landscapes of Ladakh, India. Photographs were taken as part of our hazards education work in the region. To see and learn more – why not come to this event [...]Salaziceras salazacense ammonite from Hungary
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Cretaceous; HU
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Panama Canal Cover Story in Pile Buck Magazine
The latest issue of Pile Buck Magazine has a cover story on the Panama Canal Construction. Talk about a mega project! There are actually two articles, the first includes a very nice summary of the overall [...]Vortrag: Sand – mehr als ein Rohstoff
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Dr. Christian Russok hält den Vortrag: Wann: 23.10., 19 –
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Pyrite Strobeus Snail Fossil
Powerful earthquake activity deep on the Reykjanes ridge
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During the weekend there was an earthquake activity deep on the Reykjanes ridge. Largest earthquake in the swarm had the magnitude of 5,5 (EMSC information here). Second largest earthquake had the magnitude of [...]
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POTD October 14, 2014: Buckskin Gulch, Kane County, Utah
Buckskin Gulch, Kane County, Utah Photographer: Valerie Davis; © 2013 Canyon walls of Buckskin Gulch, KaneGeosonnet 14
New biostratigraphic data may Help Cryogenian stratigraphy The timing’s known from rhenium decay The vase shaped fossils match from every sea. Were they amoebas wearing armor plate? Or protist tanks, [...]Shale Oil, Oil Exports and Oil Prices
Three articles to read if you are thinking about the relationship between an abundance of oil from shale, oil exports and oil prices. Fracking Their Way into Bankruptcy – AgainBloomberg Oil Exports Might [...][jules' pics] autumn
My memories of autumn from when I were a lass are of slipping about on mushy brown leaves on the ground, and of wind, rain and days so dark you can barely see across the school hall. There must have been some [...]8th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology in Mugla/Turkey started
In this week the 8th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology started in Mugla/Turkey, our colleague Ersen Aksoy is one of the major organizers together with his colleagues and teams from the [...]Born This Day: Jack Arnold
Kostenlose Printausgaben von Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart
Seit 2010 steht der gesamte Artikelbestand des ehemaligen Jahrbuches "Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart" und der heutigen Zeitschrift "E&G Quaternary Science Journal" zum kostenlosen Download in [...]Vintage Dinosaur Art: 100 Questions and Answers - Dinosaurs
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [13:30:00]
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Jurassic; GB,PH,CG
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Fusilando sin piedad: Tarbosaurus after Burian
Walter Grottenthaler 1941 – 2014
Dr. Walter Grottenthaler wurde 1941 in Freising geboren und wuchs kriegsbedingt ohne Vater auf. Sein Studium der Geologie an der Technischen [...]Things I wish I knew when I started my PhD…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place [10:00:58]
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As the academic year begins again, new PhD students across the country (and further) are slowly settling into their fresh surroundings. I stayed at the same university when I made the switch to postgraduate [...]
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A Small Note On Animal Fossils Before The Cambrian "Explosion"
Reporting on a Revolution [08:57:00]
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Cambrian; CN
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October 14, 2014
8.41 Carat Pink Diamond Sells for $17.8MMining.com Oil and Gas: North Carolina Game Changer ?WilmingtonBiz.com China: A New Tax on Coal ImportsMining.com Falling Oil PricesThe New York Times Oil Sands Pipeline [...]AZGS hazard viewer added to Arizona Emergency Information Network
Bárðarbunga daily update for 13-October-2014
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Current activity in Bárðarbunga volcano is around the same as it has been for the past weeks with no sign of change coming. The eruption in Holuhraun continues at the same rate as before with no change [...]
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Minor earthquake swarm in Katla volcano during the weekend
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During the weekend there was a minor earthquake swarm in Katla volcano. This was a minor earthquake swarm that lasted for few hours and then stopped. The earthquake activity in Katla volcano last weekend. [...]
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