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Sunday, 16 November 2014
2002
First off, I've been leading geology field studies trips to lots of places in the American West for 26 years. Second, I entered the digital age of photography in 2001, which led to a personal renaissance in picture-taking. I sometimes struggle to find new things to photograph when I visit a place for the 26th time, but in some cases it is not a problem. There are geologic changes
Active Tectonics Blog [00:52:00]
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(259 visits) category→science_technology US
Kate Scharer (USGS), Mike Oskin (UC Davis) and I organized a geochronology workshop for the Southern California Earthquake Center community this fall. We emphasized methodologies useful for investigating fault slip behavior over time scales from 102 to 106 years. That included Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides, Uranium Series, and Optically Stimulated Luminescence. We did not talk so much about 14C given its relative maturity, but we certainly recognize its continued value. Kate lead the charge [...]
Prerogative of Harlots [15:50:00]
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(208 visits) category→science_technology Neogene; US,GB,CN,DE,IN,NP,CA
At its eastern extremity, the state of Tennessee comes to an end in a point, sandwiched between Virginia and North Carolina, and right in the tip of that point are the towns of Johnson City, Bristol, and [...]
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Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [23:01:52]
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At the end of October, we published a short piece called CC-By documents cannot be re-enclosed if their publisher is acquired. In an interesting discussion in the comments, moominoid asked: Isn’t this what [...]
Seen from the platform at Pangbourne railway station, the graffiti on the fence in the background is probably aimed at the Thames Valley London commuters. But be careful of you do quit your jobs - you might [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [19:30:00]
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(172 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic; US,GB,
Rock goblins in the prime of life.On Halloween I posted a day-appropriate geo-challenge. The answer is ... Goblin Valley State Park in southeast Utah. Here goblins live and die. No one [...]
Beberapa kali berita semburan terjadi bukan dari sumur migas tetapi juga dari sumur air. Ya sumur ini dibor untuk mencari air tetapi mengapa memunculkan gas serta lumpur bahkan setinggi pohon kelapa ? Semburan [...]
Beberapa semburan gas, air dan lumpur ketika melakukan pengeboran air sering menganggu. Gas yang sering terkandung dalam semburan ini adalah gas metana ini merupakan gas yang mudah terbakar. Dan apabila [...]
Lounge of the Lab Lemming [13:25:00]
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Slugs are full of protein, but it is dangerous to eat them raw. So I process them by using a pack of domesticated dinosaurs to turn the slimy molluscs into slimy egg yolk. This has the added bonus of [...]
Storia della Geologia [18:14:00]
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Fin dall´antichità le zone alpine furono semplicemente identificate come le montagne di ghiaccio.Le vette innevate, i desolati ghiaioni e le parete di roccia nuda d´alta montagna - erano ambiente [...]
Questo mese, la mia attività sul blog
è stata molto ridotta. Impegni accademici mi hanno tenuto
impegnato... ma non tedio oltre i lettori con i dettagli delle mie
mirabolanti presentazioni in Power Point.
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American Farm Bureau Federation, et al. v. EPA, Case 13-4079 oral arguments are scheduled for Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. The American Farm Bureau [...]
Gempa Sabtu pagi (11/15) pukul 10:31 (WITA) memiliki magnitute cukup besar, tercatat M7.3 (oleh BMKG) atau M7.1 (oleh USGS). Gempa akibat subduksi ini memiliki mekanisme sesar naik (thurst). Dan menarik, [...]
Pavlof is one of the most active volcanoes in North America. It has erupted at least 24 times in the past 100 years. Its remote location, weather with limited visibility, and few people living nearby, may have [...]
An opera weekend. Started Friday with Verdi’s Luisa Miler on DVD with a big bottle of brandy. And then this morning at the Schoolhouse movie theater in Coquitlam with Verdi’s Macbeth. The best [...]
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