Standing 16 feet tall at the shoulder and weighing 20 tons, Paraceratherium was one of the largest mammals
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 [...]
In 1959, off the southern coast of France, a tuna boat hauled up a largetooth sawfish. The catch
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 [...]
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.
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An interesting looking Kickstarter project from the always excellent Jim
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [15:36:09]
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Sendung im WDR am: 90minütige Fernsehsendung Wann: 23.01.201, 20:15 –
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 [...]
New images have been posted on Facebook showing the landslide on the Tsarap River in Zanskar, N.
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:58:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
JOIDES Resolution blogs [08:52:04]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
, Leitfossil für die Basis des Coniac - Coniac, unteres Coniac (Schrammstein-Formation) - Ort: Brücke über den Bonnewitzer Grund (S177), Pirna-Bonnewitz (Sächsische
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:50:50]
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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 [...]
Earth Sciences and Maps Library Blog [19:56:00]
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Each year the National Academies Press (NAP) publishes a full transcript of the President's State of the Union Address, Â interspersed with links to relevant NAP publications. Â While browsing through the [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:41:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Teaching the Earth Sciences [04:14:00]
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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+ [...]
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[...]
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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 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]