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Thursday, 29 January 2015

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Big Guns Finally Wade In On Oklahoma 

Ontario-geofish [13:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (684 visits) info
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 US
Article “There’s a hysteria that needs to be brought back to reality that these [quakes] are light and will not cause any harm,” Brown said, according to local news reports. “An earthquake that was sitting there waiting goes kaboing. Then things shake,” Or officials could reduce volumes at several “monster” wells, with names such as “Deep Throat” and “Flower Power,” that scientists say may

Darwin: An Encounter With Beetles 

Reporting on a Revolution [17:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (205 visits) info
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 GB
In 1827 Charles Darwin's father Robert Darwin, alarmed that his son was turning into  a wastrel, decided to enroll him at Cambridge with the ultimate  aim of preparing Charles Darwin for a life as a country parson. This would set him up for life among the country gentry he already knew and was comfortable with. Charles's unhappy tryst with medical school in Edinburgh had disappointed his

Drunk on Geology - Inversion IPA 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [17:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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The next up in the Drunk on Geology series is Inversion IPA  produced by Deschutes Brewery from Bend, Oregon.An inversion is a naturally occurring phenomena when the temperature goes from normal (warmer [...]

More pillow basalt at Rodeo Cove 

Magma Cum Laude [02:10:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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 US
I promised photos of the second part of my trip to see pillow basalts at the Marin Headlands, and here we are, just as the fog was lifting in the early afternoon. After exploring the Point Bonita lighthouse [...]

Oakham, Rutland Earthquake 28/01/15 Recorded at Keele, UK. 

Hypo-theses [12:39:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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 GB
A moderate (for the UK) M3.8 earthquake occurred last night near Oakham in Rutland, England. The recording above made at the University of Keele on our 6TD seismometer shows the three-components of ground [...]

Noah's Rocket 

Koprolitos [08:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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Todos hemos oído hablar de la historia del arca de Noé y de como se supone que salvó a los animalitos del gran diluvio. Ahora bien, ¿y si una embarcación no hubiera sido suficiente para salvar a todos los [...]

imm cologne 2015: Das sind die heißesten Wohntrends 

Natursteine-Blog [11:16:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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Farben, Wohnstile und Materialien – das sind die Must-haves Jährlich lädt die imm cologne Designer, Journalisten, Blogger, Redakteure und Wohninteressierte in die Kölner Messehallen. Das [...]

Scientists Urge Action For Disappearing Lake Urmia 

Lake Scientist [15:24:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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In an article penned for The Guardian, scientists who have just completed a study covering two years of desiccation to Iran’s Lake Urmia urge action to protect the once ecologically[...] The post Scientists [...]

Rocks in the right place at the right time… 

Four Degrees [16:08:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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Flo looks two examples of the strange and important ways that geology and where it’s located can affect international governance and regulation. From the presence of tiny coralline islands to ownership [...]

Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof 16 – mit Judotricks gegen einen Gepanzerten 

Mente et Malleo [23:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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 BR
Wie würde ein Kampf zwischen einem sehr beweglichen und einem schwer gepanzerten Gegner wohl aussehen? Vermutlich würde mancher auf die Panzerung setzen. Aber nicht immer ist die von Vorteil. Das kann man [...]

Workplace Collaboration Again 

Ontario-geofish [18:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
After the sillies with witnit.com, I was noticing all the big and small players are humping the workplace collaboration camel again.  Trouble is, they all want to sell it to dysfunctional big companies with [...]

The Pakyong Airport landslide issue in India 

The Landslide Blog [09:04:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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 IN
In Northern India, landsliding is occurring upslope of the Pakyong airport construction site, which has used extensive slope cutting during

The Dawn of Snakes 

Laelaps [19:47:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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 Mesozoic
Dinosaurs are Mesozoic superstars. The largest literally overshadowed other forms of life during their prehistoric heyday, and even

The “finger-like” parapostzygapophyseal processes of Qijianglong 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [22:59:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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 CN
There’s a new mamenchisaurid in town! It’s called Qijianglong (“dragon of Qijiang”), and it’s the work of Xing et al. (2015). As far as I can make out, the life restoration is [...]

Interpreting the Mt Polley Report 

I think mining [06:25:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
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 CA
The web says the report from Morgenstern, Vick, and Van Zyl (MVV) on Mt Polley will be release on Saturday.  Apparently the report goes to the British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) and the [...]

imm cologne 2015: Das sind die heißesten Wohntrends 

Natursteine-Blog [11:16:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (44 visits) info
Farben, Wohnstile und Materialien – das sind die Must-haves Jährlich lädt die imm cologne Designer, Journalisten, Blogger, Redakteure und Wohninteressierte in die Kölner Messehallen. Das [...]

A haunting 8-day-long orchestration of modern seismicity 

The Trembling Earth [01:10:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (30 visits) info
We’re getting ever-richer ways to “view” the seismic restlessness of our planet, from this beautiful map of all the tremors we’ve recorded, and this sparkling NOAA animation of quakes [...]

Weird stuff! One of the starfish I described will be a....TOY???? #EchinoblogInJapan2015 

Echinoblog [11:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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Back in 2003,  I described this very ODD deep-sea starfish. Astrosarkus idipi, a weird and HUGE sea star which had a pretty weird body plan.. You can read my full post about it here.  It occurs in relatively [...]

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: A Stunning Impenetrable Wall of Solid Rock 

Geotripper [03:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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Mount Whitney from the Alabama Hills in the Owens Valley Impenetrable. The imaginary mountain barrier surrounding Mordor in the Lord of the Rings has nothing on this real-life wall of solid granite. For more [...]

New President for Nicholson Construction 

GeoPrac.net [07:21:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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GeoPrac sponsor Nicholson Construction posted a press release at the end of 2014 that I somehow missed. They have a new President, former Hayward Baker Senior VP Steven Scherer has taken the reins. He has [...]

Tiefseebergbau: Wie groß sind die Risiken? 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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 FR
     - GEOMAR koordiniert europäisches Verbundprojekt zur Gefahrenabschätzung - 50 Spezialisten für Tiefseeökologie, Meeresbergbau und Tiefseebeobachtung von 25 europäischen Forschungseinrichtungen [...]

Erwärmungspause: Die Klimamodelle machen keinen systematischen Fehler 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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     Skeptikern, die noch am menschengemachten Klimawandel zweifeln, bricht nun eines ihrer letzten Argumente weg: Zwar hat sich die Erde seit der Jahrtausendwende deutlich schwächer aufgeheizt, als [...]

2014 CostMine Salary Survey of U.S. Metal and Industrial Mineral Mines 

I think mining [01:53:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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 US
Some salaries for those working at U.S. metal and industrial mineral mines.  The data were collect the second half of 2014.  These data I take from the recently issued Cost Mine 2014 Survey Results [...]

Bigger Better, Smaller Smarter? 

Bob Jamieson dot Net [13:44:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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If you are thinking of brining a new canine friend home, one the questions that may be on your mind is: what is the right size and breed? To a great extent, a dog’s personality, behavior, and dietary and [...]

Pteraichnus Road 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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Como son los lodos que dejan las aguas de los lagos al retirse o desecarse... A parte de jugar malas pasadas con el calzado de algún despistado transeúnte, estos lechos húmedos nos dejan huellas de la [...]

Vulkangesteine & Mineralien im Kaiserstuhl 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:37:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (104 visits) info
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 CH
Ein Taschenbegleiter von Reinhold Treiber: Bestellung: HIER & in Freiburger

Pre-School Palaeontology: Science Learning for the Under Fives 

Geological Society of London blog [18:33:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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A guest post from Science from the Start’s Laura Hobbs.. “Under-fives tend to be an underserved audience for informal science learning, but even the youngest babies are using their senses to learn [...]

Summer Program Opens Door to the Life of a Scientist 

State of the Planet [20:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
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 US
For Destiny Torres, currently a biology major at Brown University and a Gates Millennium Scholar, participating in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s Secondary School Field Research Program in 2010 [...]

The horrors of writing on a thesis 

The Way of the Geophysicist [11:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
Reading Time: 1 minutesThis is my life in 4 panels right now: Courtesy of Jorge Cham Also check out the other PHD comics, they’re amazing if you’re in grad

Video: AutoCAD Geology Solids and Civil 3D 

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GeoPrac sponsor Keynetix has released a video tutorial on how to create geology solids in AutoCAD using Civil 3D. This is a new and improved technique using the Civil 3D productivity pack 1. [Source: [...]

What Regulatory Activities are Expected this Year for the Oil and Gas Industry? 

Energy Policy Blog [11:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (33 visits) info
As 2015 begins, the oil and gas industry is preparing itself for a plethora of regulatory

What Regulatory Activities are Expected this Year for the Oil and Gas Industry? 

Energy Policy Blog [11:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (6 visits) info
As 2015 begins, the oil and gas industry is preparing itself for a plethora of regulatory activities.  More...
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