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Monday, 22 December 2014
Prehistoric Shorebirds Waded Alongside Their Dinosaur Cousins
Birds are dinosaurs. This fact is easily understood by looking at the scaly feet of a chickadee orRain? In a Rain Forest? Exploring California and Oregon on the 50th Anniversary of the Biggest Flood Ever
Eleven Years of Hard Work for A Few Frantic Days of Science
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [04:41:36]
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I’m eating lunch and talking with my friend Bud Ward (Yale Climate Connections) at the AGU meeting in San francisco Wednesday, when I see a gentleman with a sticker on his lap-top that says “MY [...]
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How to Make Good on the Promise of Water as a Human Right?
By Romit Sen and Kamal Vatta Water, one of the most basic life-sustaining resources, is under stress. A rising population, growing pollution and climate change threaten the availability and quality of water [...]Veteran geophysical tool preps for new horizons at Europa
Jupiter’s moon Europa has tantalized scientists with its potential for harboring life ever since Galileo first spotted the icy satellite in 1610. If living matter is bubbling anywhere in our solar system, [...]Door 22: The Geological Society Christmas Quiz
Everybody loves a quiz, right? (If your answer to that question is no, you might want to move on now. Come back tomorrow, when normal service will be resumed. At least in so far as service on the [...]The GeoChristian on Facebook
The GeoChristian now has a Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-GeoChristian/224603031042432 Facebook is not the best place to have a dialog about substantial issues, especially because after a [...]Monday Geology Picture: Written in Stone
A few weeks ago I flew from the USA back to my home base of Cape Town, South Africa. During the journey, I had a long layover in London, so I left the airport for awhile and did some sightseeing. Among other [...]Why is the Dead Sea dead?
Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 12/22/14-1/4/15
Holiday Hours HMNS Hermann ParkFrom December 20 to January 4, the Museum will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.The Museum will be CLOSED Christmas Day. HMNS at Sugar Land From December 19, 2014 – [...]Photo needed for my book: Blue Lake, near Washington Pass
Northwest Geology Field Trips [01:15:28]
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Does anyone have a high resolution photo of Blue Lake, near Washington Pass? I’m on the quest for what I hope is the final missing image for Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. If you can provide me [...]
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Picture Perfect and Water Wise: Images May Someday Predict the Hazards of Volcanic Gas
Earlier this year, superheated water within Japan’s Mount Ontake triggered a hydrothermal explosion. Scientists monitoring the volcano had seen no signs of impending danger. The resulting steam-triggered [...]Deutsche Rohstoff: Bohrbeginn für neun Horizontalbohrungen im Februar 2015
Heidelberg/Denver. Die Deutsche Rohstoff und das Management ihrer US-Tochtergesellschaft Elster Oil & Gas (EOG) gehen davon aus, dass ab Februar 2015 neun Horizontalbohrungen im Magpie Projektgebiet des [...]Mallorca Marriott Son Antem
Mallorca is an island to the east of Spain. I am now at a Marriott resort in a fancy villa. Today we swam in the biggest heated pool I have ever seen. Then we went grocery shopping in Llucmajor in a [...]Where Does the Renewable Fuels Standard Stand?
On November 21, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would postpone setting requirements for the volume of renewable fuels that must be blended into motor fuels until some point in [...]All warmed up and nowhere to go: The missing El Niño of 2014
In 1997, a record-breaking El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean brought rain to California, flooding to Peru, and drought to Africa. Earlier this year scientists said that warm currents in the Pacific Ocean [...]Mesozoic Miscellany 71
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [14:00:00]
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Ordovician
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Cuarto Certamen Literario Koprolitos
Is there soil in Antarctica?
Imaggeo on Mondays: Wadis in a war zone
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:17]
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AT,LK,DE,EG,PS,IL
The range of challenges scientists face when carrying out Earth science research in the field are vast. However, the story behind Vincent Felde’s, a PhD candidate at Giessen University, image of the wadi, is [...]
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Harpes perradiatus Trilobite Fossil
Street Plants in Laramie in December?!
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [21:35:00]
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Digitate stromatolites
Want to see something cool? Itty bitty stromatolites… like baby’s fingers! There’s a big weathered-out stylolite at the base of this stromatolite-bearing layer, too. These elfin [...]Can plants be used to clear toxins from soil?
Question: I’ve heard of some plants being used to target and remove specific toxins from soil. Is there a list somewhere of the plants that can be used for these purposes?December 22, 2014
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Ordovician; US,CA,RU,SA
Severity of the California DroughtNASA Drought Headlines from CA.govCA.gov Strange Rock Contains 30,000 DiamondsThe Telegraph Russia, Canada, Denmark Fight Over Arctic OilNational Geographic November Crude [...]
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Una discordança, un anticlinal i un meteorit que no ho era: tres apunts geològics des del Boumort (Pallars Jussà)
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