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Thursday, 25 December 2014
Now, Arkansas and Ohio did not do their bit for Science since they chickened out at M4 and banned direct injection into the Precambrian. As well, we had the Virginia earthquake, which was very poorly covered by seismometers, but the later aftershocks showed a NE trend, and some association with a dammed lake.
Fortunately, we have other desperate states who are dying to prove my theories. If
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.
Triceratops vs Protoceratops
Titanoceratops vs Styracosaurus
remember, it’s not who would win in a fight, it’s who is cooler
As I was saying, Arkansas was my 'Eureka" moment. We had observed that all the earthquakes in southern Ontario were under the lakes. Thus, all our historical seismicity was wrong. It was simple: [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [19:00:00]
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(150 visits) category→science_technology Neogene,Cretaceous,Carboniferous; US,MX
I hope anyone reading this has a Merry Christmas. May the new year bring good health and fun fossil finds!
This year's design features three fossils. A fern fossil from Pennsylvanian Period for St. Clair [...]
Kohlenstoff aus fossilen Quellen ist ja nach wie vor einer unserer wichtigsten Energieträger, und daran wird sich aller Voraussicht nach auch so schnell nicht ändern. Was uns zu der Frage führt, was [...]
In those old days, the company was divided into the "Force", and "Darkness". You can guess what side I was on - Design and Development. We lived on debt for new plants, and all that [...]
Posted this morning as my “Christmas gift” to blog readers in both photo and GigaPan form, here are the exquisite stromatolites of Helen Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta. link link link link link [...]
A nice article in the Guardian tells the story of Conrad Martens, an artist who accompanied Darwin for the first few years of his voyage to South America and beyond. Martens sketches and watercolors helped [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [09:00:00]
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Lanceleaf cottonwood, Laramie River.Another year of blogging is almost over. I’d like to thank all my colleagues in the blogosphere ... those who read and those who write ... those I know (a little) [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]
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(199 visits) category→recreation Cretaceous; US
My cousin has been extracting fossils from a piece of Carlile Shale Formation matrix. It was found in Grant County, South Dakota, USA. He has been slowly breaking it down to reveal the hidden fossil teeth. [...]
Merry Christmas to all that have celebrated and those yet about to celebrate–it is all about the time zone you are in. We have cleaned up the Christmas dinner and are now relaxing watching TV, playing [...]
En la genial felicitación navideña que Jacopo Collinucci ha dejado en su Twitter se reunen varios de los personajes de la saga de Jurassic Park, incluyendo a los de Jurassic World. Aprovechamos este [...]
Ontario-geofish [14:10:00]
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(113 visits) category→arts_entertainment CA,US,,IN
Here I am, sitting all alone on Christmas Day, very early, waiting for everybody to wake up. The earthquakes in ENA have always been a mystery, mainly because very little effort was put into studying them. [...]
The exquisite stromatolites of Helen Lake, Banff National Park, are presented in photographic and GigaPan renditions. Enjoy unwrapping them as your "Christmas gift" from
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! As is my tradition, I offer up once again a very big Christmas tree, the General Grant Tree in Kings Canyon National Park. The tree is so large (268 feet high, 40 [...]
WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [04:57:39]
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Taking Santa's new green sleigh for a spin on the Salton
Highly Allochthonous [03:04:16]
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Christmas Eve in Antarctica involved our first look at how people live and work in this harsh environment – both today and in the early days of exploration – and possibly the most fabulous scenery [...]
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