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Saturday, 24 January 2015

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La disastrosa Ipotesi dell´Impatto cosmico 

Storia della Geologia [18:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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 Quaternary,Ordovician; ID,CN,IN,US,GR,CA,RU,SE,,ZA
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Sembra che i sostenitori dell´"Impatto cosmico del Dryas recente" non si danno facilmente per vinti, anche dopo l´ennesima "sbufalata" dei loro "risultati" (poiché le presunte gocce di materiale fuso scoperte nell'odierna Siria sono state identificate come scorie di focolai…) L´ipotesi é stata resa popolare a seguito di una presentazione scientifica durante l´assemblea dei geologi americani nella primavera 2007, ma uno degli autori - il fisico Richard Firestone - è dal 1990 che [...]

Earth Heritage Magazine 

Geology in the West Country [18:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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February 4th - Extreme volcanic eruptions: global catastrophe? 

Geology in the West Country [17:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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 Extreme volcanic eruptions: Global catastrophe?Wednesday 4 February 2015University of Bath, Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1Apart from impact by asteroids, very large magnitude explosive eruptions are the [...]

Irving Texas - New seismometers start to close in on injection source 

Ontario-geofish [13:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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Whoever it is, they should pull out now.  That little square is an M1.1, which is the smallest injection earthquake ever recorded.  I still think they don't have good locations, but a bunch of these very [...]

Lyriopecten orbiculatus pelecypod from the Panther Mountain formation 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
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The pectin like pelecypods of the Devonian can be beautiful with their regular concentric ornamentation highlighted by radial ribs and "wings" along the hinge line. The fossil below is one that I do not [...]

Surface mount LED fixtures 

Ontario-geofish [16:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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Forget LED bulbs.  The replaceable bulb is a terrible format for the new light sources.  These things will now outlast the 10 year painting and decorating cycle, so you can now go for the full fixture.  All [...]

Premiered This Day (1956): The Animal World 

Palaeoblog [12:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
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“2 Billion Years in the Making!” Produced and directed by Irwin Allen, whose long career included such TV hits as Lost In Space and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, and movies like The Poseidon Adventure [...]

Colorful JR 

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Colors are found everywhere on the JR. In the upper left you see the fade green gleaming of the AES (atomic emission spectrometer). In this device, [...]
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