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Sunday, 21 December 2014
A fortunate consequence of a calmer Drake Passage is that our progress across it was quite speedy. When we woke on the morning of the southern hemisphere’s summer solstice, we had nothing but steel blue seas and seabirds for company. … Continue reading
An azhdarchid pterosaur takes off in a festively-coloured woodland, because it's Christmas. Prints are available. I was recently thrilled to have the above image featured on the front cover of The [...]
Geological Society of London blog [11:00:33]
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In our quest to seek out those who should totally be geologists, we may have invented a new game….We’re calling it Geological Nominative Determinism. This may be a little clunky, so please suggest [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(625 visits) category→recreation Devonian; MA,US
I've only recently become proficient enough to recognize Spinocyrtia brachiopods apart from Mediospirifers when collecting the middle Devonian in New York. When I saw the fossils below for the first time, [...]
Highly Allochthonous [03:49:06]
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Even starting off as far south as Ushuaia, it’s a long way to Antarctica – almost 1000 km of open water. We got a peak of the chart below whilst touring the bridge of the Corinthian – they [...]
Thursday was a really exciting day. In the morning I sat in on a session about the hydrology of landslides, and especially how water storage in pore space affects landslide dynamics and
Tierra de Dinosaurios [13:42:00]
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(147 visits) category→science_technology ES
Durante las fiestas navideñas, el Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos) tendrá un horario especial. Los días 24, 25 y 31 de diciembre, 1 y 6 de enero el museo salense permanecerá cerrado.
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scienzeedintorni [10:16:00]
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La sequenza sismica APPARE in netto calo per intensità e numero di scosse, come pare ovvio.Dico appare perché, altrettanto ovviamente, non si può escludere una recrudescenza degli eventi, come in effetti è [...]
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Do you know these places? Would a place that has cliffs like these merit being declared a national park?
Thankfully, these rocky precipices are in a national park already. But these are not the iconic [...]
Grizzly Peak is the highest point in Oakland, at 1754 feet elevation (sources differ). As you approach it on Grizzly Peak Boulevard, it seems to loom quite high. That’s an illusion caused by the [...]
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