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“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
Reporting on a Revolution [17:41:00]
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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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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[...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In Northern India, landsliding is occurring upslope of the Pakyong airport construction site, which has used extensive slope cutting during
Dinosaurs are Mesozoic superstars. The largest literally overshadowed other forms of life during their prehistoric heyday, and even
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [22:59:24]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
- GEOMAR koordiniert europäisches Verbundprojekt zur Gefahrenabschätzung -
50 Spezialisten für Tiefseeökologie, Meeresbergbau und
Tiefseebeobachtung von 25 europäischen Forschungseinrichtungen [...]
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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:40:00]
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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 [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:37:52]
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Ein Taschenbegleiter von Reinhold Treiber: Bestellung: HIER & in Freiburger
Geological Society of London blog [18:33:10]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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: [...]
As 2015 begins, the oil and gas industry is preparing itself for a plethora of regulatory
As 2015 begins, the oil and gas industry is preparing itself for a plethora of regulatory activities.
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