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Friday, 19 December 2014

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New Zealand watersheds show the dirt on logging and grazing 

AGU Meetings [23:33:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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 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

Bárðarbunga volcano update 19-December-2014 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:47:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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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

Deutsche Rohstoff: Aktienrückkauf beendet 

Rohstoff Blog [22:08:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
category→business
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) [...]

No tubes on domestic US flights? 

A Lisbon Structural Geologist [21:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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 US,PT
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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 [...]

Electromagnetic imaging helps scientists locate underwater methane 

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 DE,GB
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, [...]

Big Slushy Wet Snow Hits Northern Sierra; Some Folks Lose Internet 

Looking for Detachment [19:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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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 [...]

Die Spur des Todes 

Mente et Malleo [18:34:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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 DE
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, [...]

Data from space illuminates Calaveras creep 

AGU Meetings [17:49:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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 US,
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 [...]

Computer models simulate asteroid impacts 

AGU Meetings [17:16:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
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 US,IN
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, [...]

Come research with us! 

Highly Allochthonous [15:30:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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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 [...]

When Astronomy Gets Closer to Home: Why space weather outreach is important and how to give it impact 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
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 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 [...]

BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: Project ICAD and UKCP09 

James’ Empty Blog [10:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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What’s up? The Friday links (63) 

Paleoseismicity [10:00:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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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 2.8: A Preview 

Digital Geography [09:12:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
category→gaming
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 [...]

Jahresrückblick 2014 bei jonastone 

Natursteine-Blog [09:08:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
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 [...]

La felicitación navideña dinosauriana de Brian Colley 

Koprolitos [09:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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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’s Fossils of the Week: Beautiful trace fossils from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio 

Wooster Geologists [05:15:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Sterilizing for Mars 

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“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 [...]

Paper to Predator: Making your own shark with sandpaper! 

BEYONDbones [01:30:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
category→culture_politics
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 [...]

Dinosaur Tournament Season 2, Part 7 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [00:08:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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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 Geologist in Yorkshire 

Wooster Geologists [21:46:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Best atmosphere ever! @ #AGU14 Icebreaker 

A Lisbon Structural Geologist [20:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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Oak Creek - Mormon Lake graben described in new book on Oak Creek Watershed 

Arizona Geology [19:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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 US
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Lightning strikes Venus 

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 US
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 [...]

AGU Fall Meeting 2014: Day 3 

Magma Cum Laude [18:30:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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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 [...]

Recommended reading: “Photographing Trees” 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 AU,US
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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 [...]

Inquiring Minds Want to Know: JR Camp Boss, Taylor McKirdy (Q&A) 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [16:17:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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Friday Fold: Mist Mountain Formation in Canmore, Alberta 

Mountain Beltway [13:03:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Door 19: Ghosts of the Museum – The Unfortunate Toad 

Geological Society of London blog [11:00:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
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 [...]

Clarity on Antarctic sea ice. 

Real Climate [10:08:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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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 [...]

Frohe Weihnachten & Blogpause 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:32:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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My latest paper: Patterns of movement at the Ventnor landslide on the Isle of Wight 

The Landslide Blog [09:10:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info
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 GB
In my latest paper, just published in the journal Landslides, my co-authors and I examine monitoring data for the Ventnor landslide in southern

Schizophoria schnuri brachiopod from Morocco 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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 Devonian; US,MA,PL
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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 [...]

December 19, 2014 

Geology.com News [07:10:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
category→recreation
 CU,US
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 [...]

MS student opportunity in urban hydrology and biogeochemistry at Kent State University 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [03:12:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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 [...]

Rocks: the larger they are, the faster they crumble 

AGU Meetings [01:39:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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 AQ,US
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 [...]

Quality control of aerosol measurements filters out important readings 

AGU Meetings [01:26:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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 KR
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 [...]
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