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Monday, 10 November 2014

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Bárðarbunga volcano update Monday 10-November-2014 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:52:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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No major change took place in the eruption in Holuhraun during the weekend. The lava field is now around 70 square kilometres wide and it keeps growing each day. I don’t know the total volume so far, since … Continue reading

Killerschwämme – Das leben Ist kein Ponyhof #14 

Mente et Malleo [22:22:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
category→business
Schwämme sind uns ja der Inbegriff eines primitiven und wohl harmlosen Lebewesens. Einfach am Meeresgrund festsitzen und vor sich hin filtrieren, das dürfte kaum bedrohlich wirken. Und manche Schwämme haben noch ein Nachleben als unsere Badegenossen. Also nichts, vor dem man sich wirklich in Acht nehmen muss, oder? Abgesehen davon, dass so etwas immer auch ein klein wenig auf die Größe der beteiligten ankommt (Hauskatzen sind niedlich, aber Löwen...). Aber Schwämme? Wenn man nicht gerade [...]

Counting stars 2.0 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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     In winter time, when nights become longer and darker, stargazing can be a fantastic experience and family activity. But in urban areas, the stars disappear behind the skyglow caused by waste light [...]

Results of a recent hunt in some old Coal tailings 

Views of the Mahantango [21:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US,
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I've been very busy these last few weeks going collecting and that has caused me to be a little backed up on the blog. Once the weather turns cold I will have more time to focus on writing entries. In the [...]

An Apology 

Earthly Musings [18:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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 EC,PE,US
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Buttes of the Cross in Canyonlands along the Green RiverDear Readers -I know I have been remiss in posting updates lately and for that I apologize. Life gets busy and sometimes posting takes a break.However, I [...]

Mesozoic Miscellany 68 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; AU,US,MG,MN
The Big NewsVintana sertichi is a new Gondwanatherian mammal from Madagascar, and in expanding our knowledge of the clade beyond assorted jaw-y and tooth-y bits, it's a pretty significant discovery. It's one [...]

All Dinosaurs Lived In Herds? 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [18:10:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
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All dinosaurs may have lived in herds. Think about it. Suppose there’s a dinosaur called Dinosaurus. All Dinosaurus fossils are isolated. But what if it was like this? Dinosaurus traveled in herds. Every [...]

Todo irá mucho mejor con un dinosaurio en el guión... 

Koprolitos [17:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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Con frecuencia, los dinófilos piensan cómo hubiese resultado tal o cual película si en lugar de poner a un ser humano o a cualquier otro animal como protagonista, se hubiera pensado en un dinosaurio. De [...]

Quote of the Week – 10th November 2014 

Climate and Geohazards [17:22:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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Monday 10th November 2014 Perhaps the most sensitive, heart-breaking, yet necessary action we will have to take in this next century is abandoning our coastal cities as climate change threatens their very [...]

Ice Ages - What happened in the tropics? 

Ontario-geofish [15:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (688 visits) info
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 Quaternary
In the North, we all know about the Ice Age.  We generally agree that about 2 million years ago we started the Pleistocene Epoch.  I'm not totally convinced that the day before this was all sunshine and [...]

Insect Evolution Solved! 

Palaeoblog [14:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. 2014. B. Misof, et. al. Science Ant-Man © Marvel Comics Using a dataset consisting of 144 carefully chosen species, 1KITE scientists present [...]

What is weathering? 

SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [14:00:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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Question: I understand what weathering a storm is, but what does the term “weathering” mean in relation to soil? The simplest way to think about weathering is that it means

Imaggeo on Mondays: Painted Hills after the storm. 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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 US
The geological record preserved at John Day Fossil beds, in Oregon, USA, is very special. Rarely can you study a continuous succession through changing climates quite like you can at this National Park in the [...]

Bis bald Berlin! De vuelta del 74th Annual Meeting de la SVP 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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 DE,PT
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Entre los días 5 y 8 de Noviembre se celebró en el Hotel Estrel de Berlin (Alemania) el 74th Annual Meeting de la SVP, una de las citas más importantes dentro de la Paleontología de Vertebrados. Este [...]

Boletín Digital Noviembre 2014 

Geosfera [10:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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 MX
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Como cada mes compartimos el Boletín Digital. Noviembre destaca por actividades como la clásica Semana de la Ciencia en su edición XIV,o la exposición "2014 Año Internacional de la Cristalografía" que [...]

To Explore a Wild Cave: The Underground Wilderness of the Sierra Nevada 

Geotripper [09:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (211 visits) info
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 US
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There is a treasure in the Mother Lode of California's Sierra Nevada. It lies hidden beneath the surface, but it's not gold. It is a wilderness, but has no beautiful trees or distant vistas. It is dark and [...]

Introducing the paleoseismicity.org shop 

Paleoseismicity [08:33:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (614 visits) info
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Since a lot of people asked us how to get these paleoseismicity.org shirts which we distributed on several events before, we decided to provide a online shop here. We offer shirts and hoodies for women and men [...]

Mark Your Calendars for the events happening this week (11/10-11/16) at HMNS 

BEYONDbones [05:00:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! Travel back in time and test your battle strategy with the War [...]

Lesser‑Known Yellowstone – Red Mountains 

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [01:12:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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 Neogene; CI,US
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When I was hired as a seasonal interpretive ranger at Yellowstone back in May of 2011, I knew few details about our first national park except that most of it is in northwestern Wyoming, it encompasses a [...]

Da oben leuchten die Sterne, hier unten leuchten wir 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
category→business
 DE
     Laterne, Laterne, Sonne, Mond und Sterne: Am Martinstag erstreckt sich auf vielen Straßen und Plätzen ein wahres Lichtermeer. Zahlreiche Kinder ziehen dann stolz mit ihren Laternen durch Dörfer [...]

Geologie im Alten Ägypten 

Geschichte der Geologie [18:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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 AU
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Am 4. November 1922 öffnete Howard Carter die versiegelte Tür die zum Grab von Tutanchamun - Pharao im alten Ägypten von 1332 – 1323 v.Chr.  -  führte. Das Grab quoll über von kostbarem [...]

Student Profile: Denis Tan 

State of the Planet [18:19:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
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 SG
For Denis Tan, the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program has exposed him to a wide variety of real world sustainability issues while training him to be a better team member and manager. Denis hopes [...]

Os presentamos al Iberón. 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [18:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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 Quaternary; ES,US,IT,MA,PT,
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 Un viejo sueño se acaba de hacer realidad en la investigación sobre el Iberón que nuestro equipo, junto con especialistas de toda Europa acaba de publicar. El Iberón o topillo de Cabrera, acaba de [...]

Zooarqueologia de época islâmica 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [17:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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 PT,IT
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Hoje foi defendida com sucesso a dissertação de mestrado de Diogo Mota sobre "Estudo zooarqueológico de restos faunísticos de época islâmica (séculos XII/XIII) de um silo do castelo de Aljezur" [...]

San Francisco Regrade-Rincon Hill 

New Stories in Stone [17:35:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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 US
San Francisco has long been famed for its hills. There are 43 ... [ continue

Wirbel unter dem Eis 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [16:01:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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Forscherteam beobachtet im antarktischen Ozean: Mit neuen Beobachtungstechniken entdeckten Forscher von der

Congresso anual da Sociedade de Paleontologia de Vertebrados 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [15:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
category→sports
 ES
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O congresso internacional da Sociedade de Paleontologia de Vertebrados (74th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) que decorreu em Berlim de 4 a 8 de Novembro de 2014 teve uma grande [...]

Root wedging: a recent example 

Mountain Beltway [14:21:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (614 visits) info
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 US
What is Kenny pointing at here? Why, it’s a boulder. Where did it come from? Look uphill: This is as perfect an example of root wedging as I’ve seen! Spotted it last Friday along the C&O Canal [...]

We need clear policy on tweeting from academic conferences 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [13:16:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info

 DE
When Susie Maidment presented her in-progress research at SVP in Berlin last week, someone came in late, missed her “no tweeting, please” request, and posted a screenshot of the new work (since [...]

Novos restos cranianos de megalossaurídeos do Jurássico Superior da Bacia Lusitânica no 74th Annual Meeting de la SVP 

ALT-SOCIEDADE DE HISTÓRIA NATURAL [12:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (195 visits) info
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 Jurassic; DE,PT,US,UM
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Nos passados dias 5-8 de novembro celebrou-se em Berlim o 74º encontro anual da Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Nesta reunião foi apresentado, sob a forma de poster, o estudo de um novo conjunto de [...]

#EGU2015 – Natural Hazards Education, Communications and Science-Policy-Practice Interface 

Geology for Global Development [11:00:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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 AT,GB
Below we’ve listed details of a session that will be of interest to many of you at the EGU General Assembly, in Vienna, next spring. Many postgraduates and academic staff from across the UK and beyond [...]

Call for papers: Regional moment tensors and stress field in South and Central America 

Paleoseismicity [10:12:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (676 visits) info
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 US,
Our colleague Franck Audemard spread the news that a special issue of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences (SAMES) will be published on “Regional moment tensors and stress field in South and [...]

Zu gewinnen: 5 Geo-Schulprojekte 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [08:57:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
category→business
Der Geopark Nordisches Steinreich verschenkt: 5 geowissenschaftliche Projektwochen Frist: 31.12.2014

November 10, 2014 

Geology.com News [07:10:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
category→recreation
 CA,RU,NZ
Hundreds of Earthquakes Beneath NevadaUSA Today Video: Volcanoes Scream Before They EruptWeather Network Russian Gold Reserves Growing RapidlyMining.com WaterWatch: Streamflow Conditions for North [...]

The Wild Oakland walk on the Hayward fault 

Oakland Geology [01:13:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (625 visits) info
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 US
Saturday I led a walk for the members and friends of Wild Oakland to show off one of Oakland’s most striking places to encounter the Hayward fault. There was a nice turnout, about 60 people. I was glad [...]
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