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Friday, 02 January 2015
Active Tectonics Blog [23:58:00]
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(736 visits) category→science_technology US
The American Geophysical Union Fall 2014 meeting came and went. It is quite a taxing meeting. But, I saw some old friends and many colleagues. A highlight was running the EarthScope Town Hall. Our agenda was:EarthScope overview, science achievements, and status (Arrowsmith)Update from the National Science Foundation (Benoit)Plate Boundary Observatory Futures workshop report (James Foster)IRIS Science workshop report and Transportable Array update (Central Eastern US network and Alaska [...]
My flower garden WILL recover...
Something strange happened last night, the last day of the year 2014. At seven minutes to midnight, the official temperature at Modesto airport stood at 33ºF. At some point during the next sixty minutes, the thermometer recorded something that had not happened in the entire year of 2014 (according to the data at Modesto Irrigation District). It dipped
There’s not really a good time to bring up amphibian mating habits at the dinner table. I figured
Please note that a transfer to a new and faster server is going to take place soon. I am working out few details on that transfer before it happens. The transfer is going to take up to 48 … Continue [...]
Wooster Geologists [06:04:04]
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(214 visits) category→science_technology Neogene; CY
One of the very best paleontological sites I had the pleasure of collecting was on the hot Mesaoria Plain near the center of the island of Cyprus. It was the summer of 1996 and Steve Dornbos (’97) and I [...]
1School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Humans have been clearing forest for thousands of years to prepare the landscape for settlement and [...]
Did you ever watch stars, and hear distant singing? New telescopes see that the galaxy’s ringing! Listen now carefully, open your ears To Johannes Kepler’s great “music of [...]
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M5.2 a the top end. I only did this because of the cute picture.
Although it is aesthetic, it doesn't mean anything in
A few of the many geologic stories of 2014 that
The eastern Arizona magnitude 5.3 earthquake near the town of Duncan was the biggest in the region in more than 75 years. There have been hundreds of [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [14:07:00]
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(145 visits) category→science_technology AR,US
La Universidad de Zaragoza ha acogido la primera reunión constituyente del comité asesor del Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Este órgano, junto con la designación de José Ignacio Canudo como director del [...]
New year, new links, same weekday! Despite many geobloggers are still in their season breaks, today is still Friday, so here are your links! The departed holiday season has marked the 10th anniversary of the [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:01:16]
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(233 visits) category→recreation AT,IT,US,CN,SI,,IS
From the rifting of the African continent, to mighty waterfalls in Slovenia, through to a bird’s eye view of the Glarus Thurst in the Alps, images from Imaggeo, the EGU’s open access geosciences image [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [13:33:00]
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(207 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous; PT,ES,RO,,AR
Nuestros aragosaureros Eduardo Puértolas y Bernat Vila son dos de los autores de la descripción del nuevo crocodrilio. La investigación encabezada por el investigador Alex Blanco del Institut [...]
Nathan Davis ya ha pasado por Koprolitos en un par de ocasiones (aquí y aquí) y en esta ocasión nos muestra las ventajas de ser triceratops en un campamento en este diseño de camiseta para RedBubble que [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(180 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; US
Among the rocks in the large road cut north of Avoca, NY on I-390 (that I blogged about a couple of days ago) were these trace fossils. The rocks are of Upper Devonian age (Fransian stage) from the Gardeau [...]
Back in August I wrote about an extremely important paper by John Wheeler of Liverpool University called “Dramatic effects of stress on metamorphic reactions”. This uses a theoretical approach to [...]
Devonian metamorphic rocks (garnet-bearing gneiss) exposed on the western side of Cabbage Island, Maine: And here it is in GigaPan form:
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:49:01]
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(145 visits) category→science_technology GB
The UK had a pretty good snow event last week after Christmas, and NASA released this true colour image from the MODIS sensor on the Aqua satellite. Click for the full 5 megabyte high resolution version. You [...]
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