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Sunday, 01 February 2015
In un precedente
post, ho commesso un grave errore, al quale pongo rimedio qui.
Innanzitutto, mi scuso con i miei
lettori, che si affidano a me per avere informazioni corrette e fonti
attendibili in merito alla paleontologia ed alle sue emanazioni
extra-scientifiche.
Ho scritto in quel post che il
meraviglioso ed originalissimo “ibrido” di Billy World si
chiamava “Diabolus Rex” [sic]. Mi
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [19:02:00]
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(127 visits) category→arts_entertainment Jurassic; GB
One of the more obscure finds I've made on eBay, this Dinosaurs isn't a book as such - rather, it folds out like a pamphlet or map, and the illustrations effectively cover two frieze-like spreads. (You can also fold it completely flat, but there's no continuity between the two sides.) Published by Domino Books in 1979, its charming illustrations take us back to a palaeontological world in flux...while erring somewhat on the old-fashioned side. We're not out of the swamps just yet!The [...]
kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [15:16:03]
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(110 visits) category→business DE,CA
Belemnitenstufe, - Cenoman, oberes Obercenoman (Dölzschen-Formation) - Ort: Ratssteinbruch Süd,
Dinosaur Home - Blogs [14:09:20]
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(119 visits) category→arts_entertainment US
Peerless, a former coal mining settlement (own work)
JMD posed an interesting question: What’s it like exploring a ghost town? What comes to your mind when you hear the term “ghost town”? [...]
It’s a simple and well-known picture. Volcanoes form either at plate boundaries due to subduction or inside plates due to mantle plumes. Invoking plumes – columns of hot rock rising from deep in [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(746 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; US,ES,NZ
I picked up this slab of chonetid type brachiopods while visiting a small quarry off Geer Rd. in Madison County, NY. The rock found there is a portion of the Upper Ludlowville formation (Devonian, Givetian [...]
Oh, hai, is that the Seahawks at the Super Bowl again? Yes, it is! I have to say, I’m pretty stoked that my hometown team made it to the Super Bowl two years in a row.
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So it is reported, anyway. No sign of anything official on the CD site, but the post by Crok seems to confirm it according to google translate. It is hardly a surprise, it was hardly a roaring success from the [...]
The synapsids constitute the second major group of reptiles after the diapsids. They are characterized by a single hole in the skull just behind each eye socket called temporal fenestrae. Synapsids include [...]
We had aftershocks on Wednesday from both of last year's more prominent earthquakes in Arizona.
A magnitude 2.5 quake (orange dot on AZ-NM border) is likely an aftershock to last June's M=5.3 Duncan [...]
Belemnitenstufe, - Cenoman, oberes Obercenoman (Dölzschen-Formation) - Ort: Ratssteinbruch Süd,
Impactante noticia publicada el pasado viernes por El Mundo Today (30 de enero de 2015): Los dinosaurios se extinguieron por no depositar el vidrio en el contenedor verdeMURIERON PORQUE NO TENÍAN CONSEJERÍA [...]
A new video has been posted on Youtube showing a spectacular retaining wall failure that causes a truck to slide and bounce down a
Oh, hai, is that the Seahawks at the Super Bowl again? Yes, it is! I have to say, I’m pretty stoked that my hometown team made it to the Super Bowl two years in a row. They are awesome that...
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WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [05:58:17]
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(645 visits) category→recreation US
In the waning hours of my two–week “2014 Winter SoCal Adventure” last month, fate offered up a gorgeous southern California Christmas Eve Day hike. Barely 20 miles up the interstate from my condo in [...]
My third day on JOIDES Resolution (JR), the ship, which will be my home for
the next two months. We are still at port and awaiting to receive necessary
clearance to leave the port. I have been on cruise [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [00:39:00]
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(590 visits) category→science_technology US
A nice benefit of having a fossil blog on the Internet is the number of people you meet who are interested in fossils from around the world. Back in October 2014, I was contacted by a coal miner in western [...]
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