I was playing around with ArcPY and tried to recreate a version of the qgis2leaf plugin just for ArcGIS just to get to know that ArcGIS doesn’t seem to have native support for GeoJSON. So I’ll not show you how to build a leaflet map from within ArcGIS but I would like to show you some basic tasks in ArcPY by exporting a point shapefile to a CSV. What Will We Do? We will use a point shapefile and export it as a CSV file using ArcPY. So in the end you will have a new toolbox with a [...]
It is time to say good-bye to that great experiment that would have proven all my theories about New Madrid and Eastern earthquakes. All the fracking companies are about to default on their bonds, and the whole industry will shrivel up and die. Not a penny to pay for injection.
Slowly, all those earthquake will peter out. It's been fun for me, but I'll just go back to natural earthquakes.
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:14:34]
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Current activity in Bárðarbunga volcano remains the same. The eruption in Holuhraun continues, at bit slower rate now than it was some ten days ago according to latest news. This is not surprising, since [...]
If you haven’t had a chance to register for PaleoFest 2015 use this fillable form and return it to Burpee Museum via mail or email! PaleoFestRegistration Want to know more about PaleoFest 2015 before you [...]
How does the evacuation process work when dealing with a dangerous scenario?
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Elizabeth Kosters contributed this week’s Friday fold: It’s from Rainy Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Click through to read Elizabeth’s post on the site. Happy
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:26]
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Will this be your first time at an EGU General Assembly? With 12,000 participants in a massive venue, the conference can be a confusing and, at times, overwhelming place. To help you find your way, we have [...]
Geological Society of London blog [11:14:13]
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We’re kicking of a series of themed years, by declaring 2015 the year of mud, mud, glorious mud! Geological Society Council Member Lucy Slater explains… “In [...]
A new video appeared on Youtube yesterday showing a quite remarkable landslide in
Strahlende Farben und eine lebhafte Wirkung Mediterran, natürlich und dennoch elegant: Sandstein-Platten sind in ihrer Wirkung so facettenreich, wie kaum ein anderer Naturstein. Ihre vielfältige [...]
Geology for Global Development [10:00:20]
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Until 1996, Guatemala was in the midst of a brutal Civil War. This sculpture in the Presidential Palace of Guatemala City is a reminder of that troubled past and symbolic of a hopeful peaceful future. In the [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:49:00]
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Las reconstrucciones digitales molan, esto es así. Es impresionante encontrarnos con una figura bien hecha en un artículo, con sus fotos, bocetos, detalles... pero cuando nos encontramos una modelización, [...]
Jewel Cave: New Known Length at 173.89 MilesCavingNews.com Troglobites: Animals that Live in a CaveGeology.com Bulgaria’s Magurata Cave Nominated for UNESCO’s World Heritage SiteCavingNews.com Bats [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [05:27:02]
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Geologisch bemerkenswert und zugleich katastrophal: Schmelzwasser sickert unter die Gletscher
Editor’s Note: This post was provided by Kuraray, local sponsor to the special exhibition Samurai: The Way of the Warrior on display now at HMNS. “Do you have a card?” is a phrase uttered daily in [...]
Gestern wurde ein Video von einem Erdrutsch in Dagestan bei Youtube hochgeladen. Es zeigt einen Erdrutsch, möglicherweise in der Form eines Erdschlipfes, auch wenn hier die Vegetation den abrutschenden Block [...]
Após o descalabro do ano passado, com apenas 4 bolsas atribuídas em Geociências pela FCT e praticamente a uma só universidade, este ano assistimos a uma recuperação (10 bolsas) e a uma distribuição [...]
Leggo oggi che Stephen Czerkas è morto a causa di un tumore al fegato. Figura controversa nel mondo della "dinosaurologia"; è un grande dispiacere che sia scomparso così prematuramente.
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Since we are still in the International of Year of Soils , another Digital Soil Science post is ready. Some of you might already know that I’m addicted to soil. As a guy who works in the field of soil [...]
Welcome back! Fewer links, a bit more to read! Do roads mean landslides are more likely? What were the Great Survey geologists wrong about? Today is Friday and here are your links! Do roads mean landslides are [...]
Nuestro compañero Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Marco del Instituto de Geosciencias (CSIC-UCM) ha escrito una contribución sobre el Antropoceno, que os adjuntamos. Fue escrita en una lista de discusión sobre [...]
Strahlende Farben und eine lebhafte Wirkung Mediterran, natürlich und dennoch elegant: Sandstein-Platten sind in ihrer Wirkung so facettenreich, wie kaum ein anderer Naturstein. Ihre vielfältige [...]
Hasta los más raritos de la clase en el Mesozoico necesitan amor. Al menos eso parece pensar la ilustradora Jessie Sima, que ha diseñado esta camiseta para RedBubble que refleja los coqueteos de dos [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [08:07:51]
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I made these for my own use in talks, and then thought, why be selfish? Like everything else on this blog, these images are now released to the world under the CC-BY license. Have fun with them. You can read [...]
Wooster Geologists [06:25:21]
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This week we have another fossil from the Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) of the Mesaoria Plain in central Cyprus. It is again from a Keck Geology Consortium project in 1996 with Steve Dornbos (’97). This [...]
A small, sad band of ragged people protested in front of our building today. Our building houses Imperial Metals and the Mt Polley Mining Company. The front doors were locked; three security guards held [...]
This soil might just look like some crusty dirt. However it’s the crust on the dirt that makes this soil so very important. Tread lightly through this “Glad you Asked” article on soil crusts [...]