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Friday, 02 January 2015

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AGU 2014 and EarthScope Town Hall 

Active Tectonics Blog [23:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (736 visits) info
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 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 [...]

2014: Our Year Without a Freezing Temperature 

Geotripper [10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (709 visits) info
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 US
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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

New Frog Species Reproduces Like No Other 

Laelaps [00:08:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (616 visits) info
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There’s not really a good time to bring up amphibian mating habits at the dinner table. I figured

Transfer to a new faster server 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [03:38:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (599 visits) info
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’s Fossil of the Week: An encrusted scallop from the Pliocene of Cyprus 

Wooster Geologists [06:04:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (214 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Research Summary: Effect Of Deforestation On Global Wetland Hydrology 

Lake Scientist [14:40:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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 AU
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 [...]

Celestial Music 

State of the Planet [23:51:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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  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 [...]

National Geothermal Data System spun off in new non-profit company 

Arizona Geology [05:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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Earthquakes at both ends of the Cascadia Basin 

Ontario-geofish [12:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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 US,NZ
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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 Arizona geology stories of 2014 

Arizona Geology [00:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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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 [...]

Constituido el comité asesor del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Zaragoza 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [14:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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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 [...]

What’s up? The Friday links (65) 

Paleoseismicity [18:42:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (615 visits) info
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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 [...]

The best of Imaggeo in 2014: in pictures. 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:01:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (233 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Un nuevo cocodrilo del Maastrichtiense de los Pirineos 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [13:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (207 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; PT,ES,RO,,AR
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 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 [...]

Triceramallows 

Koprolitos [12:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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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 [...]

Trace fossils from near Avoca NY 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
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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 [...]

Metamorphic petrology under stress: round 2 

Metageologist [18:16:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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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 [...]

Friday folds: Cabbage Island, Maine 

Mountain Beltway [13:49:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
Devonian metamorphic rocks (garnet-bearing gneiss) exposed on the western side of Cabbage Island, Maine: And here it is in GigaPan form:

Die Gier nach Sauerstoff 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [10:41:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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This Green and Snowy Sceptered Isle 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:49:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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 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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