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Friday, 05 December 2014
Stormwater-Stream Connectivity: Process, Context, and Tradeoffs
In a few minutes, I’ll be giving a cyberseminar in CUAHSI’s fantastic sustainable urban streams seminar series. You can join the seminar live at 3:30 pm, or watch a recording of it later. Either way, https://www.cuahsi.org/Posts/Entry/13551 is where you want to go to watch and listen. If you want toIce Loss in West Antarctic is Speeding Up
Glaciers in one part of West Antarctica are melting at triple the rate of a decade ago and have become the most significant contributor to sea level rise in that region, a new study says. The study found that the glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica have shrunk by an average of 83 gigatons a year for two decades—the equivalent of the weight of Mount Everest every twoIt Increasingly Looks Like It Was the Oak Creek Fault That Ruptured
South Canal Beacon Hill
On July 29, 1895, six thousand people stood and listened as local ... [ continueGeology and the Autumn Statement
So George Osborne donned the ceremonial red briefcase on wednesday and took to the helm in the House of Commons (rather inconsiderately while I was in Brussels and couldn’t follow the news…) to [...]Mysterious Minerals
So common, yet far out of sight, Mineralogists longed for a bite. Formed deep inside, Or when rocks collide, At long last, a name: bridgmanite! [...]Overcooking Aucasaurus garridoi
markwitton.com blog [12:07:00]
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Cretaceous; US,
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Door 5: Ghosts of the Museum – extra content
For this year’s advent blogathon, the Society’s Archives present a collection of extra lessons from the eminent, but sadly shortlived ‘Magazine of Natural History’…. [...]Images of Guatemala (7) – Volcano Art
Geology for Global Development [10:00:02]
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The dramatic landscapes of Guatemala are an important source of inspiration for some of the creative arts being produced in Guatemala. The images above (from top to bottom) a shop selling paintings aimed at [...]
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Lindstroemella sp. brachiopod from the Centerfield Mbr.
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Devonian; US
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El Stegosaurus del Museo de Historia Natural de Londres, ¿Sophie o Sarah?
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [08:00:24]
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FR,CH
Ayer se inauguró la exposición del Stegosaurus del Museo de Historia Natural de Londres del que se habló hace unos días en este blog (véase DinoAstur 1-12-2014). Impresionante visión del esqueleto, [...]
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December 5, 2014
Juneau Icefield Research Programjuneauicefield.com Winter Gem and Mineral ShowsThe-Vug.com Guatemala Doubles Mining RoyaltiesMining.com The Atlantic Coast Natural Gas PipelineCharlotte Business Journal [...]A Texas sized block of ice…
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest of the Antarctic ice shelves, measuring just under the size of the state of Texas. It is several hundred meters thick, although most of this is below the water surface. Along [...]What’s up? The Friday links (61)
Quite a lot happened this week. We have news on the world’s most abundant mineral, Nature going open access, a new blog on geomorphology, and more! So, Welcome back! Today is Friday and here are your [...]Oklahoma - a tale of two earthquakes
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Friday folds from the Shenandoah River
My student Josh B. found this beautiful map view of a plunging fold in the bed of the Shenandoah River, as viewed in Google Earth: Josh posted his results on Facebook, and then the other Josh (Joshua [...]GeoEd: Citizen Geoscience
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:45]
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US,CA,KM,GB
In this month’s GeoEd column, Sam Illingworth tells us about the growing use of Citizen Science within research as a means of acquiring data. Whilst the practice is novel and offers exciting opportunities as [...]
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What's the point of social science?
By chance, our visit to France coincided with this conference: International Conference : Confidence, Credibility, and Authority in Climate Sciences and Politics It looked interesting, so along we went... [...]Lying with statistics.
Reading Time: 1 minutesBaseline matters via Flowing Data from Reddit You can see it quite often today, that an essential part of an axis is missing. I usually think highly critical of showing your entire plot. [...]Premiers jours
readDinos Vs. Army Guys (2011)
La verdad es que no tenemos mucha información acerca de este cortometraje realizado con la técnica de stop motion. Lo subió a su canal de YouTube MrMattchew, que comenta que es "otro video que hice para mi [...]Veranstaltungen im UN-Jahr des Bodens 2015
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Das Umweltbundesamt (UBA) bietet: eine Terminliste mit Veranstaltungen für Wissenschaftler,
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Getting Under Your Feet – The Revolutionary Technology of Geogrids
Most people reading this will have driven along a highway recently. But did you ever stop to think about how it stays up? With all the trucks and cars that speed along the average highway every day, [...]Ozarkodina Conodont Fossil
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Carboniferous; US
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