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The Strange Deep-Sea Ophiuroids of Paris! Featuring Dr. Tim O'Hara!

Echinoblog [23:34:00]

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FR,US

Bonjour once again!! So, my trip to Paris has all but ended and I'll be returning to the United States in a few days. The trip has been a challenging one. The laptop crashed and was out of the loop for two weeks and left me without a computer for data collection and etc.. So, much of my trip has been "old school".. working with paper and notes labelling jars with species names as best as

Crocomodiles vs. Allimogators

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [23:16:43]

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category→arts_entertainment

I just got off a chat with Matt. Here is the whole thing, all but unedited, for your enjoyment. All you need to know is that my wife, Fiona, built a symphony, which Matt refers to as a boxomophone in tribute to Homer Simpson refering to Lisa’s instrument as a saxomophone. Mathew: Hey, how is Fiona’s

Mixing waters up in the Southern Ocean

AGU Meetings [22:59:13]

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GB,AQ,

The Southern Ocean encircles Antarctica and plays a key role in controlling the global climate. It is here that ocean currents return from the abyss to the surface, closing the global ocean overturning [...]

Educator How-To: Making your own Samurai sword

BEYONDbones [21:45:23]

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Editor’s note: This blog post was contributed by Kathleen Havens, HMNS Assistant Director of Youth Education. Feudal Japan’s government depended on a warrior class, called Samurai, for over 600 years. [...]

Der Bergsturz vom Eibsee – Als die Zugspitze noch über 3000 Meter hoch war –

Mente et Malleo [20:41:53]

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Bergstürze gehören zu den eindrucksvollsten und wohl auch gefährlichsten kurzfristigen Ereignissen, die der Mensch kennt. Ihre Spuren kann man, wie hier am Eibsee unterhalb der Zugspitze, auch lange Zeit [...]

Sunday's 4.7M Earthquake - What is the Oak Creek Canyon Fault?

Earthly Musings [18:55:00]

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US,,IE

Last night's 4.7 magnitude earthquake in north-central Arizona has everyone wondering about earthquakes in this part of the world. Some of these comments reflect a lack of understanding about seismic activity [...]

Road Song: I Can't Drive 55

Looking for Detachment [18:30:00]

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Sammy Hagar: I Can't Drive 55 (lyrics) Album: VOA, 1984 MOH turned me on to this song just yesterday (I didn't listen to much besides classic rock and country in the 80s). The song refers to the National [...]

Resilience in China: EwF in Sichuan Province

Earthquakes without Frontiers [16:34:09]

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Three members of the EwF team represented the project at a recent workshop in Chengdu, China, hosted by NERC, ESRC, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). The workshop brought together [...]

November 30, 2014 M4.7 earthquake between Sedona and Flagstaff

Active Tectonics Blog [15:55:00]

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Quaternary; US,GB

Last night, a M4.7 earthquake occurred between Flagstaff and Sedona (just west of Munds Park). I hope it was not too scary for my friends and colleagues. It sounds like it got their attention! I agree with [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Stone Flower

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [15:00:43]

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Paleogene,Jurassic,Triassic,Permian; DE,AU,CN,AF,KM,IN,KG,TJ,

In a true feat of endurance, self-discovery and resilience, Solmaz Mohadjer and Josy Strunden, geology students at the University of Tübingen (Germany), cycled 800 km in the Pamir Mountains as part of a trip [...]

How is the age of soil figured?

SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [14:00:24]

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Question: How is the age of soil figured? Answer: Soil scientists agree that soils form over time as the climate (temperature, rain, wind, etc.), topography (shape of the landscape), parent

Un esqueleto de Stegosaurus en el Museo de Historia Natural de Londres

DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [13:52:58]

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US,GB,FR

A partir del 4 de diciembre se expone en el Museo de Historia Natural de Londres (Natural History Museum, NHM) un esqueleto original de Stegosaurus procedente del Jurásico Superior (Formación Morrison) de [...]

The Constitution of the Interior of Earth, as Revealed by Earthquakes

Metageologist [13:06:16]

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How to tell if the loaf of bread in your oven is cooked? You can see the outside is nicely browned, but you can’t see the middle – is it doughy still? Give it a tap and listen. If it sounds [...]

Discovering dinosaurs in the field

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [12:40:43]

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I’ve already written a bit about the fieldtrip to Alberta from this Autumn that I led from Queen Mary with a team of colleagues and undergraduates where we had a great time and found some great stuff. My [...]

Door 1: Ice, ice and more ice!

Geological Society of London blog [11:57:59]

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Welcome back, geoadvent fans! After 11 months of baking, knitting, geologising and youtubing, we are turning over the geolsoc blog, once again, to four weeks of festive geological musings. For those of you who [...]

Bring Back The Mammoth

Koprolitos [09:16:00]

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En Headline Shirts fantasean con la idea de clonar un mamut y para ello han hecho este diseño de camiseta que anima a los científicos a llevar a cabo esta empresa. Afirman que si, que ya se hizo en Parque [...]

PhD reflections: Sorcha

Between a Rock and a Hard Place [08:00:41]

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place began as an Earth Science PhD blog in February 2013, as a place to ramble on about PhD life and general science topics. Almost two years later, some of the contributors have [...]

Lenticular Clouds and Cascades Volcanoes (no UFOs today...)

Geotripper [07:04:00]

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We have Mrs. Geotripper to thank for today's picture. We've been on the road in Oregon and as we came over the hill into Medford at sunset, we were greeted with the extraordinary sight of a lenticular cloud [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Fish-bitten echinoid spines from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of southern Israel

Wooster Geologists [05:12:38]

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Jurassic; IL,PL

This week we revisit a group of fossils covered in an earlier blog post. It is now the subject of a paper that has just appeared in the journal Lethaia entitled, “Bitten spines reveal unique evidence for [...]

Polygnathus lobatus Conodont Fossil

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]

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Carboniferous; US

This image shows what appears to be a Polygnathus lobatus conodont fossil. This creature existed in the Mississippian Period. Fossil was found in the Jacob Chapel Shale of Clark County Indiana USA. Source [...]

Riprap, Slickensides, and a Thanksgiving Walkabout

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [02:10:29]

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I went for a walkabout yesterday, two days after eating my way into a holiday food coma. That spiral cut ham–scalloped potatoes–pecan and cranberry dressing–vegetable medley–cranberry sauce–two [...]

Geosciences role in making Tucson the "Science City"

Arizona Geology [00:27:00]

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US,IN,PH

The University of Arizona's 28-page supplement in Sunday's Arizona Daily Star newspaper is one of the many high-profile activities taken by the school to build Tucson's reputation as "Science [...]

Moderate quake (M=4.7) between Sedona and Flagstaff

Arizona Geology [21:52:00]

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<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 [...]

Bárðarbunga volcano update 1-December-2014

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [21:37:39]

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This is going to be a short update on activity in Bárðarbunga volcano. Observation of the eruption in Holuhraun has been difficult to impossible in the past days due to bad weather in Iceland. The lava field [...]

Become a fossil hunter and 'Dig up the dinosaur'

Earth Learning Idea [18:59:00]

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'Dig up the dinosaur' was one of our most popular ELIs in November. Pupils dig up buried 'bones' in a systematic manner and reconstruct the skeleton. The bones can be arranged in the positions in which the [...]

Antarctica Day

polar soils blog [18:37:00]

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Happy Antarctica Day!Antarctica Day is celebrated in honor of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty on December 1, 1959. Today is the 55th anniversary of its signing!The 50 countries that have signed the [...]

Prehistoric Lizard Had the Teeth of a Dinosaur

Laelaps [18:29:29]

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic is often called the Age of Dinosaurs. This terminology casts a long shadow over ancient life.

Death, Destruction & Douglas Fir

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [16:01:00]

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“The plant world exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”(historian Will Durant, adpated by botanist Arthur Kruckeberg)I love Douglas fir for the little mice trying to hide [...]

Position for a Museum Scientist in University California Rirverside

WeBlog Aragosaurus [15:45:00]

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I would like to bring the following position for a Museum Scientist to your attention. For the right person, this could be an attractive position, combining collections and educational work along with [...]

Earthquake Last night in Oak Creek Canyon

Earthly Musings [14:35:00]

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US,PH

From USGS web siteA moderate 4.7 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Oak Creek Canyon woke me up here in Flagstaff just a few minutes before 11 PM last night. Woken from a moderate sleep, at first I knew [...]

December - Male Depression Month

Ontario-geofish [13:58:00]

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I'm making that up, after Movember, since I think this takes more men than prostate cancer, which is practically cured now, since they have diagnostics and early treatment with the radioactive beads. Male [...]

The Great 2014 Dinosaur Gift Guide: Volume 2!

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [13:40:00]

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Mesozoic; GB,NZ

Welcome to part two of the LITC 2014 Dinosaur Gift Guide! If you missed the first installment, check it out here. the goal with this brief series of posts is to highlight artists and other independent creators [...]

M4.7 Arizona earthquake, rugged territory

Ontario-geofish [12:48:00]

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The USGS isn't giving a fault plane solution, and I don't think there is much coverage, but this is one of those random events that happens in relatively stable geology. I did get a streetview. Very [...]

Dana’s Super-Gargantuan Guide to Science Books Suitable for Gift-Giving II: Science for Kids!

Rosetta Stones [12:00:21]

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Welcome to Part II of our Super-Gargantuan Guide! In this edition, we’ll be exploring the world of science books for kids. I attempted to cast my mind back to when I was a child, and also... -- Read [...]

New paleoseismology papers

paleoseismicity.org [10:46:32]

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Several recently published studies deal with paleoseismology and related fields, especially tsunamis and archaeoseismology. Do you feel some important papers are missing? Contact us and tell us! Livio, F. A., [...]

Devonian fossil wood from the New Albany shale in Kentucky

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]

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Carboniferous,Devonian; US

I was going through some of my boxes of Devonian material the other day and came across some specimens of coalified wood that I'd found a few years back in Kentucky. The fossils were found at a location where [...]

December 1, 2014

Geology.com News [07:10:32]

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US,CV,JP,LY

Oil Prices in Free FallThe New York Times A Simple Guide to the Collapse of Oil PricesGulfNews.com Nigeria’s Economy Tanks as U.S. Oil Exports StopNBC News Libya Oil and Gas ReportEnergy Information [...]

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet & Mt Polley.

I think mining [06:08:09]

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This evening I watched the Mariinsky version of Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet. This is the only ballet I like. Mostly because of the music. And, I suspect, because once I could recite the [...]

Atraktoprion Scolecodont Fossil

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]

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Ordovician; US

This image is of a microfossil fragment that appears to be an Atraktoprion scolecodont. It was found in the Kope or Fairview Formations of Mason County, Kentucky, USA. The creature existed in the Ordovician [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening this week (12/1-12/7) at HMNS

BEYONDbones [03:00:58]

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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! Go behind-the-scenes of our offsite collections storage [...]

Landslides in Art Part 21: Harlequin

The Landslide Blog [00:30:28]

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Part 21 in my series examining the ways in which landslides are depicted in art, featuring a piece by a Taiwanese artist called

Un'altro sciame sismico negli USA in cui aumenta con il tempo l'intensità e i suoi perchè

scienzeedintorni [00:00:00]

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LV,PH,US,IT,KM,FR,CH,ZA,BR

Gli Stati Uniti orientali sono caratterizzati da una sismicità intensa e famosa (in particolare la California) e gli sciami sismici sono all'ordine del giorno. Una cosa strana è che in questi giorni si sta [...]

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