markwitton.com blog [12:40:00]
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(224 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic,Triassic,Carboniferous; GB,US,ZA,
Morganucodon watsoni forage for insects and spiders at night among Carboniferous limestones in early Mesozoic Wales. Empty, torn webs suggest they're having a good night, while forest fires burn in the background. Prints are available.Vertebrate palaeontology textbooks always devote a good chunk of space to morganucodonts, a clade of Triassic-Jurassic Mammaliaformes representing some of the first wholly 'mammal-like' synapsids. Even folks largely uninterested in Mesozoic synapsids will be [...]
Shasta from the vicinity of Dunsmuir from the south
A short note from the highway tonight. We were on a long road trip into central Oregon today and followed Interstate 5 through northern California. One of [...]
ART Evolved: Life's Time Capsule [06:20:00]
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(178 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic
So like all other palaeo-geeks, I've found I've been sucked into the Jurassic World trailer, like a bystander witnessing a bus full of orphans crashing into a train full of TNT...Now of course I'm... [...]
El color es, profesionalmente, mi principal dolor de cabeza. Cuando aboceto, pienso en términos de composición, de luz y de sombra, de negros, blancos y grises. Y me siento cómodo en esos términos. Buena [...]
Written In Stone...seen through my lens [21:40:00]
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(165 visits) category→science_technology US,HN,MX
“There are trees, and then there are trees.”Dick Byrd, 2014Dick Byrd of Newton, Massachusetts, has a lot to be thankful for. One of his biggest joys is growing or should I say towering in his front yard. [...]
This posting is a favor for someone I admire. She seeks a job in mining and well deserves one. This evening I went to her farewell party from the company she is leaving. She is leaving because the downturn [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]
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(159 visits) category→science_technology Ordovician; US
This image is of a microfossil that appears to be a Cleidophorus pelecypod. It was found in the Kope or Fairview Formations of Mason County, Kentucky, USA. The creature existed in the Ordovician Period. Field [...]
Wooster Geologists [05:27:17]
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(152 visits) category→science_technology Neogene; US
These two beautiful barnacles are from the Calvert Formation (Middle Miocene) exposed near Parker Creek in Maryland. They are likely of the genus Chesaconcavus. Barnacles are most unlikely crustacean [...]
It was an embarrassment, even though there were no fancy houses. Hasn't been an earthquake since Tuesday, I'm guessing it has stopped. These things are caused by the huge price for disposing of frack [...]
Wenn das Thema Klimawandel in den Medien auftaucht, kommen zwangsläufig auch Klimamodelle darin vor. Doch was sind diese Klimamodelle, und wie funktionieren sie. Wie kann man mit Hilfe eines Rechenmodells das [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [07:00:33]
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(118 visits) category→business
… in Knappheitsregionen weiter anheizen Auf ihre vorhandenen Schiefergas-Reserven können
Paleobiologia del Neogen Mediterrani [13:34:58]
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(186 visits) category→science_technology AR,FR,IT,ES,US,CL,PY,MX
Lo siento, ¡esta entrada llega con demasiado retraso! (la publica Rosa, pero la escribe Jordi!).Os cuento hoy una actividad que me ilusionó mucho desde el momento en que la propuso el Dr. Carlos Cónsole, [...]
When it comes to webmapping there are thousands of possible markers you can choose from but when it comes to markers depending on the data, which is inside the shapefile, possibilities are more limited. In [...]
scienzeedintorni [01:20:00]
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(173 visits) category→science_technology BR,US,IT,,SI
Nel territorio italiano, circondato da mari piuttosto caldi e dal rilievo giovane, colli e monti costituiscono quel sistema tanto paesaggisticamente ineccepibile per cui andiamo famosi, quanto di difficile [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [14:50:51]
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(162 visits) category→business
am 05.12.2015 bietet die FAO: Sehr gelungene Werbematerialien können Sie
A long year ago, the last Friday links were published, a section I always liked and waited for during food coma or processing times. Christoph managed to find intriguing bits and pieces from the digital world [...]
Painting by Mary ParrishScott (Nov. 28, 1854 – Jan. 29, 1934) was an English paleobotanist and leading authority of his time on the structure of fossil plants, one of those who laid the foundations of [...]
Earthly Musings [14:02:00]
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(146 visits) category→science_technology EC,US,IN
Here are a few pictures from a three-day cruise in the Galapagos Islands. This was my 7th or 8th time there. I just love the desert landscapes and wildlife.Tall opuntia cactus on Santa Fe Island. Many of the [...]
Koprolitos [09:23:00]
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(142 visits) category→arts_entertainment FR,IT,US,MX,TH
Eladio y los Seres Queridos son un grupo de pop vigués compuesto por Eladio Santos (voz, guitarra y principal compositor), David Outumuro (batería), Oscar Durán "Uka"(bajo) y Marcos Vázquez (sintetizadores [...]
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Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:51:18]
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(121 visits) category→science_technology
This is going to be a short update. There has been a lack of reports in the news today of the eruption in Holuhraun today. Web cameras show no major change in the eruption far as I can … Continue reading [...]
After working too hard on our paper on Sunday morning, in the afternoon James went for a run, and at last I had an hour to take a walk around some of the grounds of the chateau in which we are staying at [...]