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Monday, 26 January 2015

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The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: Where the Sierra Ends (maybe), and Gold

Geotripper [21:28:00]

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In some places it is pretty clear where the Sierra Nevada ends. For a hundred miles or more there is a solid rock wall that reaches a height of two miles in the Owens Valley. There is no mistaking that the mountains end at the cliffs above Lone Pine. Likewise, it's an unmistakeable demarcation between the flat Great Valley and the Sierra Nevada foothills as well. But in the central

Born This Day: Roya Chapman Andrews

Palaeoblog [13:42:00]

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Photo from Parade of Life Through The Ages, by Charles Knight, Nat. Geo., Feb. 1942. From the American Museum of Natural History web site: Adventurer, administrator, and Museum promoter — Andrews (Jan. 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) spent his entire career at the American Museum of Natural History, where he rose through the ranks from departmental assistant, to expedition organizer, to

M4.3 earthquake Oklahoma

Ontario-geofish [22:10:00]

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I was getting bored, and fracking is dying, so I thought that there would be no more action. All the action is now in the northern segment. If rational people had some influence, they probably stopped [...]

New Valentine Design!

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [20:32:00]

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Well, Cupid is getting ready to step up to the plate, so best to start thinking about how you're going to tell twelve people - or any other multiple of twelve - how much they mean to you. To that end I've [...]

Sparks in a Plastic Container

Fossils and Other Living Things [14:46:00]

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Neogene,Paleogene; GB,ES,US

A fossil has the exceptional power of sparking to life enthusiasm and imagination. In that remnant of ancient life is something vibrant which often resonates deeply with a viewer, or, perhaps better yet, [...]

Photo Essay: Fire and Ice Off Cascadia

State of the Planet [16:41:57]

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A team of scientists traveled to the Pacific Northwest aboard the R/V Atlantis last fall to investigate whether the waxing and waning of ice ages and volcanic eruptions are somehow

Los mundos prehistóricos de Allen St. John

Koprolitos [09:20:00]

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James Allen St. John (1872 - 1957) fue un ilustrador estadounidense cuyos trabajos en el campo de la literatura pulp de aventuras, ciencia ficción y fantasía sirvió de inspiración para artistas como [...]

Wieviel hat es vor 5 Millionen Jahren geregnet?

JOIDES Resolution blogs [15:56:21]

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In einem früheren Blog habe ich beschrieben, dass diese Expedition das Ziel hat, den Monsun bzw. die Regenmenge vergangener Zeiten herauszufinden. In [...]

Cooperación entre IES. Humanes y Proyecto Geosfera: 5º Aniversario

Geosfera [14:24:00]

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ES,MX

Raquel Parrondo, Jefa del Departamento de Ciencias del IES. Humanes, con motivo de la colaboración que llevamos desde hace 5 años con sus centro educativo, elaboró un guión para la realización, este [...]

¿Empresaurios?

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:04:00]

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Ilustración de Sasha Laskowsky-Ziguilinsky El empresario a gran escala ha sido con frecuencia denostado, y en muchísimas ocasiones con razón, en el marco de las reivindicaciones sociales. También el [...]

Three Days on Ice

Wooster Geologists [00:44:35]

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Dr. Lowell and a crew from the University of Cincinnati spent thee days with us on the ice at Browns Lake Bog. The objectives were to take a series of long cores from the ice platform at the bog and, in the [...]

January 26, 2015

Geology.com News [03:10:18]

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A Comprehensive List of Mineral, Rock, and Gem ClubsThe-Vug.com Protecting Mineral Treasures at Larsemann Hills, AntarcticaEarth Magazine Video: 2007 Lahar at Mt. Ruapehu, New ZealandGeoff Mackley Melting [...]

Morfometría geométrica: una gran herramienta para comparar icnitas de dinosaurios terópodos

WeBlog Aragosaurus [16:09:00]

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Cretaceous; PT,ES,GR,GH,US,MX

Nuestro aragosaurero Diego Castanera acaba de liderar una investigación usando un novedoso método en el estudio de las icnitas de dinosaurio. Junto a otros investigadores del Área de Paleontología [...]

Distinctive sounds announce iceberg births

AGU Meetings [17:01:26]

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Underwater sounds can be used to detect different ways glaciers lose ice as they flow into the ocean, giving scientists new insight into these poorly understood events, according to new

unbestimmte Foraminifere

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [00:30:38]

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unbestimmte Foraminifere, - Cenoman, oberes Cenoman (Dölzschen-Formation) - Ort: Ratssteinbruch,

unbestimmte Foraminifere

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [00:30:38]

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unbestimmte Foraminifere, - Cenoman, oberes Cenoman (Dölzschen-Formation) - Ort: Ratssteinbruch,

It’s kind of like a turtle-fish-dolphin…

Green Tea and Velociraptors [13:00:24]

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Triassic; US

Close your eyes. Go back in time 250 million years, and the world would seems as strange to you as a different planet. On land, there was a whole host of bizarre and now extinct animals: strange, [...]

Modelling the phases of the Moon with Jaffa cakes!

Earth Learning Idea [18:00:00]

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Have you tried 'Jaffa Moon' in which you model the phases of the Moon using Jaffa cakes? Having discovered how the light part of the Moon changes shape over a lunar month, pupils are asked to reinforce this [...]

The Ravages Of A Prehistoric Predator’s Prey!

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [00:30:54]

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Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to identifying the predator that left its undeniable marks on this prehistoric morsel. This discovery came in September 2014 in the panhandle of Florida. [...]

Bembexia sulcomarginata gastropod from the Panther Mountain formation

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]

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Devonian; US

This is a pretty decent gastropod specimen from the Panther Mountain formation (Devonian, Givetian stage) at Cole Hill, NY. It's a Bembexia sulcomarginata and retains a little of the original shell texture. [...]

Porosphaera globularis Fossil From Spain

Louisville Area Fossils [02:52:00]

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Cretaceous; GB,ES

This sponge fossil is called Porosphaera globularis from the Cretaceous Period. They were found in the region of Navarra, Spain. According to the Natural History Museum of the U.K, people sometimes use these [...]

Another aftershock to last summer's Duncan M=5.3 earthquake

Arizona Geology [20:34:00]

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It looks like we had another aftershock from last June's magnitude 5.3 earthquake near Duncan, along the New Mexico border. The magnitude 3.4 event occurred at 3:22 p.m. local time on Sunday. [Right, [...]

CINCO HORAS CON MARIO (ENTRE LÍNEAS)

episcophagus [12:50:00]

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Como muchos de los lectores de mi edad, leí 5 Horas con Mario en el bachillerato, y disfruté. Me pareció una obra sorprendente, fluida y original. Y como muchos de mis compañeros, hice el análisis [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Landslide on the Cantabrian coastline

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:19]

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AT,IT,ES,US,FR

Shimmering blue seas, rocky outcrops and lush green hills sides; this idyllic landscape is punctuated by a stark reminder that geohazards are all around us. Irene Pérez Cáceres, a PhD student at the [...]

Creating an Global Education Framework for 2016

State of the Planet [15:56:12]

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Starting in 2016, a new series of global monitoring reports will examine the state of education, using the framework of the anticipated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are to be finalized by the UN [...]

EGU15 – Natural Hazards Education and Communications

Geology for Global Development [10:00:06]

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GB,AT,IN,CN,

Figure 1: A man herds his livestock in remote, high altitude, snowy conditions in Ladakh. This post first appeared on GeoEd Trek (AGU Blogs) on December 22nd 2014. It has been slightly modified below, given [...]