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Thursday, 04 December 2014

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Deep Excavation Geotechnical Software Update 

GeoPrac.net [06:33:14]  recommend  4 recommendations  (198 visits) info
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Deep Excavation LLC is releasing the revamped 2015 version of their deep excavation software DeepEX 2015. DeepEX is used by more than 1000 engineers worldwide. The current version includes an improved wizard, reports, analysis capabilities. In DeepEX 2015 is the only software that allows you to estimate the cost of your actual 3D excavation, and prepares a quantity take off for you. For more information and to download a 30 day free trial visit http://www.deepexcavation.com/en/deepxcav-2011 [...]

The Great 2014 Dinosaur Gift Guide: Volume 3! 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [04:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
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And I'm back to wrap up the gift guide, in which I gently exhort you to bestow the gift of paleoart upon your dinosaur-loving friends and relations, It's a clear win-win in that it supports independent creators who work hard to produce engaging, accurate representations of extinct life and it provides the recipient with a unique and memorable gift. Catch up with parts one and two, if you haven't seen them yet. The Tales of Prehistoric Life series of books by Daniel Loxton, published by Kids Can [...]

Dinosaur Tournament News 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [00:27:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
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Results: T-rex won Triceratops 3-2.  it was a very close match. i would like to thank all who participated in Dinosaur Tournament, such as Dinosir, The Tyrant Lizard Queen, T-rex, etc. Please vote yes [...]

Digging in the Wheeler Shale 

Views of the Mahantango [00:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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 Cambrian; US
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I found some pictures I took while on a trip to Utah back in 2007. I was in the House Range area of Utah, west of the town of Delta, digging around in the Wheeler Shale. The Wheeler Shale (middle Cambian age) [...]

M2.9 aftershock to Duncan earthquake 

Arizona Geology [21:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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One of the larger aftershocks in weeks, at magnitude 2.9, hit the Duncan area on Wednesday at 3:53 p.m.  The magnitude 5.3 Duncan earthquake occurred on June 28 and since then hundreds of aftershocks have [...]

Recent global warming trends: significant or paused or what? 

Real Climate [22:09:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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As the World Meteorological Organisation WMO has just announced that “The year 2014 is on track to be the warmest, or one of the warmest years on record”, it is timely to have a look at recent global [...]

Cow, closer than you think 

James’ Empty Blog [21:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
category→business
 FR
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Phew. Back at last to the land of feeble livestock-based humour. Talking of livestock, it was a major revelation quite how much cheese the French consume. We've visited France for weeks at a time before [...]

Catnip - Simon's Cat (A Christmas Special!) 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [19:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
category→recreation

A Truly Great Valley: Ruminations on California's Most Valuable Resource 

Geotripper [00:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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What is the most valuable mineral commodity in California, the so-called Golden State? Gold? Not hardly. We produced somewhere around 150 million ounces of the stuff over the last 160 years, netting riches for [...]

InfoZentrum Geopark Ruhrgebiet 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [11:20:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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 DE
Die Zeche Nachtigall in Witten beherbergt das neue Info-Zentrum: Besuchen

Why no PDF of the Smith and Benson Rhomaleosaurus monograph? An open letter to the Palaeontographical Society 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [13:46:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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I have sent this message to David Loydell and Beris Cox, the editors of the Palaeontographical Society’s monograph series. Dear Palaeontographical Society, I was delighted to see that Adam Smith and [...]

On The Road Again 

Geo Slice [05:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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After a nice little break from significant travel, I'll be heading out on the road again next week. I'll be visiting the Kansas City/Omaha Section on Tuesday, December 9th, our North Central Section (Chicago) [...]

How Pterosaurs Filled Their Lungs 

Laelaps [21:37:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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Imagine a balloon inside a cask. There’s an opening at the top to blow air into, but here’s

A Who’s Who of Sustainability Practitioners Headed to Campus 

State of the Planet [19:43:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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The Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership (SUMA K4310), a course added to the M.S. Sustainability Management curriculum in the spring of 2014, takes as its starting point that sustainability is [...]

GM and others flee Ontario 

Ontario-geofish [14:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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 CA,US
In the news today, the US car companies won't even take Ontario bribes.  There is no investment coming in, and they are easing themselves out. It's totally the unions.  Used to the worst unions were in [...]

Michael Sturm 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [11:58:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Dr. rer. nat Vermittlung naturkundlicher und geowissenschaftlicher Inhalte an unterschiedliche

Broschüre „Tiefe Geothermie“ - „Deep Geothermal Energy“ 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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 CH
     Verständliche Sachinformationen zur „Tiefen Geothermie“ erfreuen sich weiterhin eines starken Interesses in der breiten Öffentlichkeit. Aufgrund des großen Erfolgs der deutschen Ausgabe der [...]

Oklahoma Induced Seismicity Caused by Hydraulic Fracturing 

Energy Policy Blog [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (54 visits) info
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the number of earthquakes greater than magnitude 3 in Oklahoma is increasing exponentially. There were 20 in 2009 and 427 through the first 10 ½ months of 2014. The [...]

Links: Lamoille Canyon Geology 

Looking for Detachment [14:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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 US
Geologic Map of the Ruby Mountains, Nevada - USGS Map I-1136 (Howard, Kistler, Snoke, and Willden, 1979) Geologic Map of the Lamoille Quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada - NBMG Map 125 (Howard, 2000) Geology [...]

Hole Punch Clouds Over Maryland 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:30:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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 US
This “Hole Punch Cloud” was spotted over Somerset County Maryland today, and the technical name meteorologists use is “Fall Streak Hole”. They are rather rare, and happen when [...]

Brochure “Deep Geothermal Energy – Application Possibilities in Germany” 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info
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 DE,GB
     Comprehensible factual information on „Deep Geothermal Energy“ continues to be of great interest to the general public. Due to the great success of the German edition of the free brochure, a new [...]

Spathognathodus macer Conodont Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
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This image shows what appears to be a Spathognathodus macer conodont fossil. This creature existed in the Mississippian Period. Fossil was found in the Jacob Chapel Shale of Clark County Indiana USA. Source [...]

Lake Erie Mudpuppies Never Grow Up 

Lake Scientist [15:41:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
One of Lake Erie’s mysteries, the mudpuppy salamander never reaches a state where it can live outside of water, according to the Port Clinton News-Herald. Instead, its adult form resembles[...] The post Lake [...]

Nuevos restos de terópodos del Jurásico Medio de Níger 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [13:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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 FR
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- ¡Acaba de salir publicado otro artículo acerca de espinosaurios!- ¿Si? ¿Ya no es paticorto? ¿O ahora se le han encontrado branquias? No amigos, esta vez se trata de los restos más antiguos de este [...]

The Domkar Monastery landslide: the (non-)evolution of a failure 

The Landslide Blog [07:00:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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An archive of images of the Domkar Monastery landslide is available since 2007. They show remarkably little evidence of the development of the

Los horribles jerseys de Alex Stevens 

Koprolitos [08:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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 Jurassic; CN,US
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Dinosaur Chaos Ugly Christmas SweaterTodo diseñador debe tener en cuenta que la creatividad no tiene fronteras, pero también es cierto que no todas las creaciones artísticas tienen por qué ser de una [...]

December 4, 2014 

Geology.com News [07:10:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
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 US,NZ
New York: Site of the Next Energy Boom?City & State NY Louisiana Energy FactsEnergy Information Administration Mexico’s $50 Earthquake AlarmCNN Future Earthquakes from New Madrid ?The Columbus [...]

The fate of volcanic ash in the environment 

volcanicdegassing [14:02:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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Over the past few years, we have been working to piece together the record of major post-glacial volcanic eruptions in southern Chile that have occurred over the past 18,000 years. This work started off with a [...]

MS Alum Constructs Career for the Built Environment 

State of the Planet [15:51:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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 IN,US
M.S. in Sustainability Management alum Steve Burke (’14) has always had a passion for the built environment. Prior to joining the MSSM program, Steve interned at a sustainable design firm focused on [...]

Pictures4 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [05:43:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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Premiers jours by Philippe Martinez 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [10:58:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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You could hardly make it up... 

James’ Empty Blog [12:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Nothing should surprise me where parasitical publishing is concerned. The big headline news is that Nature have made articles free to view...FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Big whoops and high-fives all round! [...]

Door 4: Crochet Darwin 

Geological Society of London blog [11:02:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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In my previous entry for this blog I rounded up a list of excellent geological knitting patterns, ending with the amazing life sized crocheted head of Darwin. I promised you all something a little easier, and [...]

Oklahoma Induced Seismicity Caused by Hydraulic Fracturing 

Energy Policy Blog [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the number of earthquakes greater than magnitude 3 in Oklahoma is increasing exponentially. There were 20 in 2009 and 427 through the first 10 ½ months of 2014. The [...]
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