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Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Bárðarbunga volcano update Wednesday 19-November-2014
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:03:45]
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This is going to be a short update. There have not been any major changes reported in the eruption in Holuhraun. It has however been reported that amount of SO2 appears to be increasing in the eruption. This … Continue reading
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Bloom Lake Closure Cost Estimate of $700 million
Just a short note to alert you to the announcement by Cliff Natural Resources that they plan to close their Bloom Lake Mine in Quebec, and that the estimated cost of closure is up to $700 million. That is not quiet as much as is estimated for the BC KSM Mine; their closure cost estimateSteel Roofs No Good for the Upcoming Canadian Ice Age*
Cold Snap Raises Concern: How will the monarchs fare?
Should I be concerned about the monarch butterfly? Is it going extinct? Will these cold temperatures kill the ones I’m raising? What is “OE” and should I worry about it? If you have questions about [...]Penguins in the Freezer
March of the Fossil Penguins [17:19:48]
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US
At the Bruce Museum, we take good care of our specimens. One of my favorite is of course our Black-footed Penguin (who by the way needs a name – please vote on here). Here it is, taking a one-week [...]
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jonastone-Kundenvideos: Und…Action!
Produktbilder sind schön und gut. Aber wie sieht der Naturstein verlegt bei Ihnen zu Hause aus? Um ein Gefühl dafür zu vermitteln, reicht ein Bild einer einzelnen Naturstein-Fliese oder -Platte [...]Why choose a PICO session at EGU 2015?
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:51]
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Some of the sessions scheduled for the upcoming EGU General Assembly are PICO only sessions. This means that, rather than being oral or poster format, they involve Presenting Interactive COntent (PICO). The [...]
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Rheinische Mineralien- & Fossilienbörse
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:47:00]
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Der Verein LuGeV führt sie im bergischen Land durch: Wann:
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NASA – A year in the life of Earth’s carbon dioxide
An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation shift and [...]Furcaster palaeozoicus starfish from the Hunsruck slate near Bundenbach, Germany
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Devonian; DE,IN
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Tighter Ozone Standards Likely
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon announce the results of its review of the existing regulations and possibly announce tightening of ozone limits. The current limit—75 parts per billion [...]November 19, 2014
Geology.com News [07:10:43]
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Cretaceous,Jurassic; PS,US
World Oil Transit ChokepointsEnergy Information Administration Deadly Landslide in SwitzerlandSwissInfo.ch Satellite Image: Pavlof Ash PlumeNASA Earth Observatory Jericho Diamond Mine InactiveNunatsiaq News [...]
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Spectral lightness rainbow colormap
trespassing
Geologists, do you trespass? Do you chase your outcrop over hill and dale? Sneak over a fence to collect a nice rock specimen? I do not. I'm pretty careful about lining up my permissions and access [...]"A City Divided!" "Rift Tears City Apart!" "Slip-Sliding Away!" "Creepiness on the Calaveras"... I Give up: "Calaveras Fault in Hollister"
Add Holiday Cheer to your Home with Designer Trees at Jingle Tree
HMNS Sugar Land Give. OWN. Be Merry. Kick the holiday season off with Jingle Trees at HMNS Sugar Land! At Jingle Tree you can give, OWN and be merry when you bid amongst festive company on a silent auction of [...]Kolmanskop in Pictures
Last month I spent some time in Namibia for work. During one of my days off, I was able to spend some time visiting Kolmanskop. Located in the Namib Desert a few miles outside of the seaside town of Lüderitz, [...]Fountain of youth underlies Antarctic mountains
Time ravages mountains, as it does people. Sharp features soften, and bodies grow shorter and rounder. But under the right conditions, some mountains refuse to age. In a new study, scientists explain why the [...]Turning Toronto into Palo Alto
Now that I'm on the inside with the new mayor (hey, I sent him a g+ note!), we need a grand vision for the city. He's already for Uberx, which is the service for under-employed youth. Some nasty people [...]Some handy tips towards stress-free PhD completion…
Laura and I both submitted our theses at the end of September after four years of intense work. We felt there’d be some value (nostalgic to ourselves, hopefully useful to others) in putting together some [...]Short Announcement: Webinar “Get started with CartoDB” on 20/11/2014 1PM EDT
We announced some surprises of CartoDB last week, especially that the map views are not anymore limited as well another post last month, that CartoDB opens some restrictions for usage in classrooms and [...]Literature news: Recent publications on paleoseismology
Here’s my list of recent publications that deal with paleoseismology and related topics. Vargas G., Klinger Y., Rockwell T., Forman S. Rebolledo S., Baize S., Lacassin R., Armijo R., 2014. Probing [...].jpg)
Tighter Ozone Standards Likely
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon announce the results of its review of the existing regulations and possibly announce tightening of ozone limits. The current limit—75 parts per billion [...]Western New York Buried By Lake Effect Snow Blizzard
You could hardly put together a better synoptic weather set-up for a HUGE lake effect snow event than what happened today in Buffalo. A mid-January type outbreak of Polar air rushing across the Great Lakes [...]Special Thanksgiving edition of "Maps and More" -- Friday, Nov. 21, 11 am - noon
Earth Sciences and Maps Library Blog [02:15:00]
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"Maps and More" is a regular show-and-tell featuring hidden treasures from the Earth Sciences and Map Library. Please join us for a special Thanksgiving edition, in which we will join forces to create our [...]
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Nature, Choice and Social Power By Erica Schoenberger
The new book Nature, Choice and Social Power by Erica Schoenberger of John Hopkins University is available from amazon.com. I got an e-copy and have read the first few chapters that deal with mining. [...]Time-Lapse Imaging in Polar Environments
A recent article in EOS reviews the use of time-lapse video to monitor the response of polar landscapes to climate change. The video below shows a time-lapse sequence of discharge into Don Juan Pond, in the [...]Top concepts:
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