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Thursday, 25 December 2014

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Year-End Summary of Eastern Earthquakes - Part 4 

Ontario-geofish [20:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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 US
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

Dinosaur Tournament Season 3, Part 1 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [20:02:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 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. Triceratops vs Protoceratops Titanoceratops vs Styracosaurus remember, it’s not who would win in a fight, it’s who is cooler

Year-End Summary of Eastern Earthquakes - Part 3 

Ontario-geofish [19:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 CA,US
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: [...]

Merry Christmas 2014 

Louisville Area Fossils [19:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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 Neogene,Cretaceous,Carboniferous; US,MX
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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 [...]

Diamanten als Brennstoff 

Mente et Malleo [16:00:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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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 [...]

Year-End Summary of Eastern Earthquakes - Part 2 

Ontario-geofish [14:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

The stromatolites of Helen Lake 2: GigaPans 

Mountain Beltway [13:26:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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 CA
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 [...]

Darwin's Voyage Captured In Sketches And Watercolors 

Reporting on a Revolution [10:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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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 [...]

Best Wishes from Plants and Rocks 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [09:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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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) [...]

South Dakota Mosasaur Fossil Tooth? 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US
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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.  [...]

2014 Merry Christmas 

I think mining [19:31:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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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 [...]

Navidades Jurásicas 

Koprolitos [18:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info

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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 [...]

Bodenkunde 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [15:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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Year-End Summary of Eastern Earthquakes - Part 1 

Ontario-geofish [14:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
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 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 stromatolites of Helen Lake 1: photos 

Mountain Beltway [13:25:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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 CA
The exquisite stromatolites of Helen Lake, Banff National Park, are presented in photographic and GigaPan renditions. Enjoy unwrapping them as your "Christmas gift" from

Holiday Wishes: The Nation's Christmas Tree and Holiday Images of the Ah-wah-nee 

Geotripper [09:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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 US
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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 [...]

Seasons Greetings from Southern California! 

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [04:57:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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Taking Santa's new green sleigh for a spin on the Salton

One year ago today: Antarctic bases old and new, and the most mind-blowing scenery in the world 

Highly Allochthonous [03:04:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
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 AQ,
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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