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Thursday, 22 January 2015

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Museum of Northern Arizona to Offer Adult Learning Classes on the Colorado Plateau 

Earthly Musings [16:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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The Museum of Northern Arizona will offer three different courses this winter/spring related to the natural history of the Colorado Plateau. This is an excellent opportunity for those who live within the Flagstaff area to expand their knowledge of this beautiful landscape. The price of each course is a fantastic deal as well. The courses will be taught by experienced and passionate instructors who have many years of formal training and educational experience on the Plateau. General information [...]

Possible Monoplacophoran fossil from the Ludlowville formation 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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Sometimes you make good finds not in the field but at home when you are sorting through your finds. The fossil below is such an example.When I picked it up I probably thought it was an inarticulate brachiopod but as I cleaned it up and looked more closely it seems to me that it might be something different. When you look at it in profile the very tip of the shell appears to point backwards rather than straight up. If this were an inarticulate brachiopod I would expect the tip to be straight or [...]

How Paleontologists Uncovered the World’s Biggest Rhino 

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Standing 16 feet tall at the shoulder and weighing 20 tons, Paraceratherium was one of the largest mammals

The lip of the caldera 

Mountain Beltway [15:59:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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One last post from my September trip to Greece. Here’s a look north along the inside wall of the central caldera of Santorini, taken from the deck of the Santos Winery. It’s not hard to imagine the [...]

The Mediterranean’s Missing Sawfishes 

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In 1959, off the southern coast of France, a tuna boat hauled up a largetooth sawfish. The catch

Chip Holton Named NCFI Polyurethanes President 

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Former Dir. of Ops Says “Shift” New Word for 2015 and Beyond MOUNT AIRY, NC—NCFI Polyurethanes, and its parent company, Barnhardt Manufacturing Co. (BMC), today announced the Board of [...]

non-geology spam 

Accidental Remediation [00:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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Environmental geology is a pretty small corner of the scientific world, I know. And the vast majority of applied scientists out working in industry today are likely in some corner of the (human) biology world. [...]

A Walk Through Dinosaurland Kickstarter 

Palaeoblog [00:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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An interesting looking Kickstarter project from the always excellent Jim

Geheimnis Zeche Zollverein 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [15:36:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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Sendung im WDR am: 90minütige Fernsehsendung Wann: 23.01.201, 20:15 –

Died This Day: Horace de Suassure 

Palaeoblog [13:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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Horace Bénédict de Saussure Born 17 Feb 1740; died 22 Jan 1799. A Swiss physicist and geologist, he introduced the term geology into the scientific literature in the first volume of Voyages dans les Alpes [...]

The landslide on the Tsarap River in the Zanskar Valley – new images 

The Landslide Blog [08:45:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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New images have been posted on Facebook showing the landslide on the Tsarap River in Zanskar, N.

Señales (Buitreraptor) 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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Por razones temporales no estamos en el lugar del crimen, si es que lo hubo, cada vez que un dinosaurio perecía. Pero si estamos ahí (me refiero a los paleontólogos) cuando el esqueleto es desenterrado de [...]

Internationales Jahr des Bodens: Das Institut für Bodenkunde öffnet die Türen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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Gesunde Böden sind die Grundlage unserer Nahrungsmittelproduktion, sie filtern und speichern Wasser und sind von entscheidender Bedeutung für unser Klima. Um auf diese wichtigen Funktionen, aber auch die [...]

Wie passen 10 km Rohr auf ein Schiff? 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [08:52:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Die JOIDES resolution kann extrem tief bohren: selbst in 9000 Meter Wassertiefe kann sie noch 1000 Meter in den Meeresboden hinein bohren. Das [...]

MS Student Aims for Career in ESG Measurement 

State of the Planet [16:23:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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Current Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MSSM) student Divya Bendre had just completed postgraduate work in Policy Studies and was working in management consulting in Singapore when she stumbled [...]

Agreement on making geoscience data available worldwide 

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The OneGeology Board meeting wrapped up yesterday with plans to provide umbrella coordination to develop interoperability among regional geoscience data networks as part of the consortium's strategic goal of [...]

Cremnoceramus rotundatus Fiege 

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, Leitfossil für die Basis des Coniac - Coniac, unteres Coniac (Schrammstein-Formation) - Ort: Brücke über den Bonnewitzer Grund (S177), Pirna-Bonnewitz (Sächsische

Rebuilding After Hurricane Sandy 

State of the Planet [00:24:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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In June 2013, the Rebuild by Design competition was launched to find innovative solutions to the vulnerabilities of the region that Sandy exposed. The six winning projects were chosen for their excellence in [...]

Das internationale Jahr des Bodes 2015 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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 US
Zum internationalen Jahr des Bodens 2015 hat die Soil Science Society of America eine reihe von kleinen Filmen zu verschiedenen bodenkundlichen Themen. Den Anfang machen Januar (Böden erhalten das Leben) und [...]

Gravity Wave Ripples on The Satellite 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:50:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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The wave clouds on this image over Virginia are caused by winds flowing over the mountains. As the winds lift they form a cloud, and as they fall back down the air warms and dries out (and the cloud [...]

National Academies Press' guide to the State of the Union Address 

Earth Sciences and Maps Library Blog [19:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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Each year the National Academies Press (NAP) publishes a full transcript of the President's State of the Union Address,  interspersed with links to relevant NAP publications.  While browsing through the [...]

A Walk Through Dinosaurland 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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Jim Lawson of Paleo: Tales of the Late Cretaceous has a new comic project called A Walk Through Dinosaurland. It looks great! The funding goal has been met, but that shouldn't stop you from grabbing some [...]

Field Photos: Basalt Landscapes Around Fort Ghangad Near Pune 

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Its that time of the year when I go wandering in the basalt countryside around Pune. Its always a fine day off exploring the myriad valleys and mountain ranges. Last Sunday I had gone with some friends to fort [...]

January 22, 2015 

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Researchers Propose Earth’s ‘Anthropocene’ Began With Fallout and PlasticsThe New York Times Similarities Between Landslides and EarthquakesPhys.org Underground Limestone Mine Converted into a Bike Park [...]

Geosonnet 25 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [13:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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The Earth once had a frozen shell of ice encasing oceans, land, from pole to pole. The mystery: what process could suffice To kiss Snow White, rouse cryogenic soul. One theory says volcanic CO2 Would slowly [...]

From GSA: GeoCorps Positions Now Available for Summer 2015 

Teaching the Earth Sciences [04:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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GeoCorps Positions Now Available for Summer 2015!Are you interested in doing geoscience in some of America’s most beautiful public lands?The Geological Society of America (GSA) has posted 125+ [...]

Study: Algal Blooms Optimize Conditions To Support Growth 

Lake Scientist [16:18:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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A study led by scientists at Dartmouth College suggests that reducing algal blooms in U.S. lakes may not be as simple as cutting phosphorus loads from runoff, according to WYSO[...] The post Study: Algal [...]

Thoughts on 2014 and ongoing temperature trends 

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Last Friday, NASA GISS and NOAA NCDC had a press conference and jointly announced the end-of-year analysis for the 2014 global surface temperature anomaly which, in both analyses, came out top. As you may have [...]

El bus a través de los tiempos, por Paul Kirchner 

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El bus es un tira escrita y dibujada por Paul Kirchner, publicada originalmente en la revista Heavy Metal entre los años 1979 y 1985, y editada en España por Ninth Ediciones. Esta "evolución" del autobús [...]

Geochemists in Mining 

I think mining [06:25:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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I barely passed chemistry during my undergraduate civil engineering degree.  I enjoyed the geology course, although it took a lot of intellect to learn the difference between sedimentary rock, volcanic rock, [...]

Vinegar-Like Acid Rain May Have Fallen During Earth’s Worst Extinction 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:43:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
smithsonianmag.com Roughly a quarter of a billion years ago, an apocalypse struck the Earth. Known as the Great Dying, it claimed more lives than any other mass extinction known to science, including the one [...]
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