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Sunday, 21 December 2014

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One year ago today: first icebergs, first Antarctic landing, first penguins! 

Highly Allochthonous [20:28:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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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

Self destruction of a shale boulder 

Mountain Beltway [20:21:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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Taking in the festive air with an azhdarchid pterosaur 

markwitton.com blog [17:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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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 [...]

Door 21: Four non geologists who should totally be geologists 

Geological Society of London blog [11:00:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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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 [...]

Spinocyrtia elburzensis brachiopod from Morocco 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (625 visits) info
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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, [...]

One year ago today: crossing the Drake Passage 

Highly Allochthonous [03:49:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (609 visits) info
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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 [...]

AGU Fall Meeting: Day 4 

Magma Cum Laude [01:39:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (245 visits) info
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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

Horario de Navidad del Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos). 

Tierra de Dinosaurios [13:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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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. [...]

La geodinamica dello sciame sismico del Chianti e un risvolto comico sulla faccenda 

scienzeedintorni [10:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (619 visits) info
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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 [...]

Baja quake in 2010 generated hundreds of landslides 

Arizona Geology [04:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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If These Cliffs Could Talk: The Cliffs of the Ah-wah-nee that Never Got Legends 

Geotripper [03:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (612 visits) info
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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 

Oakland Geology [00:05:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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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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