AGU Meetings [23:33:39]
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(159 visits) category→science_technology Triassic; NZ,US
Grazing animals and logging trees in New Zealand could affect water quality there, according to scientists working to determine how water quality problems in the country relate to land use.
The results could help guide water-friendly policy in New Zealand and other parts of the world, according to Jason Julian, a geographer at Texas State
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:47:08]
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(139 visits) category→science_technology
Bárðarbunga volcano earthquake activity continues as before. No earthquake has reached the magnitude of 5,0 or greater since Monday 15-December-2014. Earthquake activity in the range of magnitude 3,0 and above remains high at the moment. There has been … Continue reading
Heidelberg. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG hat mit dem heutigen Tag das auf der Grundlage des Hauptversammlungsbeschlusses vom 23. Juli 2013 durchgeführte Aktienrückkaufprogramm (ISIN DE000A0XYG76, WKN A0XYG7) [...]
A Lisbon Structural Geologist [21:00:00]
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(136 visits) category→business US,PT
On my way to the AGU I caught two flights: one from Lisbon, Portugal to New York (Newark Airport) and the other from Newark to SF. In the first flight (international) I could carry my poster tube in the plane [...]
A simple compound found in underwater structures could generate warmth below the ocean, inside homes, and in the atmosphere. The location of the compound, methane, determines whether it’s dangerous, welcome, [...]
It's slushy at 4600 feet, anyway.
Our phone service--hence internet--is down, so I'm using a 1X Verizon connection. It's just a little slow!
I imagine there's a lot of snow at higher elevations, but the [...]
Spurenfossilien verraten uns viel über ihre Verursacher, und in ganz seltenen Fällen wird dieser mit ihnen zusammen erhalten. Diese so genannten mortichnia stellen einen seltenen Glücksfall dar, vor allem, [...]
Scientists have used satellites to more accurately measure the slow creep of land along the Calaveras and Hayward faults east of the San Francisco Bay, a finding that helped the researchers estimate the [...]
An asteroid impact 100 miles (170 kilometers) off the coast of Maryland would send waves up to 50 feet (15 meters) high onto the shore an hour later and massive flooding would occur three hours after impact, [...]
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a university professor with an active research program must be in want of grad students. MS and PhD students are generally the people who actually do all of the [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:16]
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(102 visits) category→recreation CA,AT,ES,US,CN,CU,SE,GB,,NZ
When the public think about natural hazards, space weather is not the first thing to come to mind. Yet, though uncommon, extreme space weather events can have an economic impact similar to that of large floods [...]
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A short week full of Christmas events and defenses and farewells has passed here at my university, so this round-up is also to remind myself what I’ve missed… Today is Friday and here are your [...]
QGIS 2.6 landed recently on this planet and it already brought great improvements to our daily work with geodata, the way we publish our results and the convenience in our workflows. But due to the very [...]
Geschäftsführer Oliver Hönig im Interview Das Jahr neigt sich dem Ende zu und macht dem neuen Platz. Während wir uns darauf freuen, was 2015 an neuen Entwicklungen, Herausforderungen und [...]
El año pasado veíamos por aquí la serie de ilustraciones sobre rodeo y dinosaurios del artista estadounidense Brian Colley, que continúa con su pasión por los dinosaurios y nos regala esta postal [...]
Wooster Geologists [05:15:46]
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(101 visits) category→science_technology Ordovician
Every year we highlight at least one of the fossils found and studied by Wooster’s Invertebrate Paleontology class as part of their field and laboratory exercises. This year it is this nice slab of trace [...]
“Leave no trace.” It’s a central ethic of wilderness exploration. Pack your supplies in, pack your waste out, and leave the natural landscape unspoiled. But when it comes to the newest frontier of [...]
Have you ever touched a living shark? Sounds like a scary proposition, but you can do so safely at Shark! The Touch Tank Experience. Before you reach into that tank observe shark’s skin (above). How [...]
So today, I decided to make a dinosaur tournament with 16 dinosaurs.
I want you to choose who you think is cooler looking out of the dinosaurs below.
Parasaurolophus VS Tsintaosaurus
Zhuchengosaurus VS [...]
Wooster Geologists [21:46:29]
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(170 visits) category→science_technology GB,US
LEEDS, ENGLAND–It was my good fortune to attend this week the 58th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association in Leeds, Yorkshire, this week. I very much enjoy these meetings because of the high [...]
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Scientists have detected electromagnetic signals emanating from Venus’s thick cloud layer, bolstering the case for lightning on the planet. The Venus Express spacecraft, which recently ended its mission [...]
Wednesday was a bit of a break in terms of activities for me. I had the chance to sit down and listen to some talks about multiparameter monitoring at volcanoes (including hearing about Diana Roman's "BENTO [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:32:00]
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(124 visits) category→arts_entertainment AU,US
the air frost and heavy mist offered the potential for creating a great winter scene ... I left lots of room around the tree to make the photograph more saleable. There is space above and below for a [...]
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Mountain Beltway [13:03:56]
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(154 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous,Ordovician; CA
Let’s journey to the Cretaceous today, to see sandstones, shales, and even some coal strata that have been folded during the eastward thrusting that built the Canadian Rockies. Here’s the same [...]
Geological Society of London blog [11:00:38]
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It’s the final extract from the always entertaining Magazine of Natural History! This one’s from 1839, and concerns a somewhat brutal experiment on an unfortunate toad…. ON THE 10th of [...]
I’ve always been a skeptic when it comes to Antarctic sea ice. I’m not referring here to the tiresome (and incorrect) claim that the expansion of sea ice around Antarctica somehow cancels out the [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:32:41]
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guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr: wünscht Ihnen die Redaktion des
In my latest paper, just published in the journal Landslides, my co-authors and I examine monitoring data for the Ventnor landslide in southern
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(176 visits) category→recreation Devonian; US,MA,PL
I am aware of the brachiopod Schizophoria from fossils that I've bought or traded for from the Silica Shale of Ohio, the Lime Creek formation of Iowa and the Skaly beds of Poland. The specimens below come from [...]
Spotlight on Gemology at GSAGemological Institute of America Gemology Articles on Geology.comGeology.com Oil and Gas Industry Faces Its Methane ProblemNational Geographic Geoscience Occupation Growth Over the [...]
Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [03:12:14]
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(162 visits) category→science_technology IN,US
We seek a highly motivated masters student to start in June 2015 to study urban hydrology and biogeochemistry with Dr. Anne Jefferson (ajeffer9@kent.edu) in the Watershed Hydrology Lab [...]
Sooner or later, mountains crumble into boulders, boulders crumble into rocks and pebbles, and so on, until wind and rivers carry sand and dust into the ocean, completing the geologic rock cycle. "But how [...]
The hardworking AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) instrument in Baengyeong, South Korea was having a rough day. Every 15 minutes, the telescope-like device pointed its barrel at the sun to record its light and [...]