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Sunday, 08 February 2015

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Mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit durch das Sonnensystem 

Mente et Malleo [22:37:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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 US
Das unser Sonnensystem ziemlich groß ist, dürfte jedem bekannt sein. Doch wie groß ist es? Bei astronomischen Entfernungen versagen unsere Alltagserfahrungen meist sehr schnell. Schon der Mond, kosmisch gesehen quasi vor unserer Haustür, ist ziemlich weit weg. Stefan Oldenburg zeigt in seinem Blogpost sehr gut, wie weit der Mond entfernt ist, wenn wir unsere irdischen Maßstäbe benutzen. Damit dürfte schnell deutlich werden, dass alles, was uns auf der Erde als schnell vorkommt, für den [...]

Dickinsonia from the Ediacara biota 

Paleoexhibit [21:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (17 visits) info
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Reconstruction of Dickinsonia costata In 1946, while investigating abandoned mines in the Ediacara Hills, South Australia, geologist Reginald Claude Sprigg stumbled upon some peculiar and barely visible trace fossils of jellyfish-like creatures. He realized that they must be far older than any fossil known at the time. He published his preliminary results in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (1947, 1948). He then tried to publish his findings in the prestigious [...]

Of Anchor Ice & Cottonwood Flowers 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [19:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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It was the first of February, 8:30 AM, and 17º F after a cloudy night with light snow.  When I reached the river, I saw two men with poles standing in the water as ice floated by.  What were they [...]

Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde mit Jules Verne 

Geschichte der Geologie [18:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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 US,AU,UM,CN
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Am 8. Februar 1828 wurde der Autor Jules Gabriel Verne im französischen Nantes geboren. Bekannt wurde er mit fantastischen Reiseromanen, in denen er Elemente der Science-Fiction einarbeitet – so queren [...]

March 21st The Jurassic in Oxfordshire 

Geology in the West Country [17:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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 Jurassic; GB,US
Jurassic in OxfordshireElizabeth DevonSaturday 21st March Kirtlington Quarry SSSI - go back in time to a Jurassic environment similar to the Florida Everglades today. These conditions attracted many animals, [...]

EnantioMundo: i tre gradi (ed i tre cladi) degli enantiornithi 

Theropoda [14:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info
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 IN
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Per affrontare un discorso articolato sul mondo degli enantiornithi, occorre fornire un minimo di basi tassonomiche. Prima dell'avvento della sistematica filogenetica, gli enantiornitologi avevano continuato a [...]

The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders 

Through the Sandglass [14:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (652 visits) info
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 GB,US,SG
The book is now available in the UK and the US! I have to say that the publishers, Reaktion Books (and the University of Chicago Press in the US), have done a beautiful job – they accepted all my [...]

Oklahoma news articles finally get good 

Ontario-geofish [13:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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 US
Article I loved this article.  Their only 'fault' is that they don't mention me.

Peter Byrne Receives the RF Legget Medal 

I think mining [01:35:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (559 visits) info
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 Ordovician; CA
This week we to the dinner given in honor of Dr. Peter Byrne and his receiving the RF Legget Medal. RF Leggett was a distinguished Canadian geologist.  And the award honors his works.  The Medal is one of [...]

Controversial ceratopsids revisited: woolly Pachyrhinosaurus and scavenging Styracosaurus 

markwitton.com blog [18:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (659 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US,NZ,ZA,ES,RU
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Spurned on by a print request, I've spent free time this week revising two images of ceratopsids which may be familiar to long-term readers: my woolly Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum and scavenging Styracosaurus [...]

Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof 17 – geleimt! 

Mente et Malleo [18:03:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
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 US
Gerade unter den kleineren Lebewesen befinden sich ja so manche, die scheinbar aus einem schlechten Horrorfilm entsprungen zu sein scheinen. Denn gerade wer sich nicht durch körperliche Kraft, Größe und [...]

Can it be? Even more non-dinosaurian epipophyses? Yes, and this time they’re non-ornithodiran! 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [17:16:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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Having given pterosaurs all the glory in two earlier posts, it’s time to move yet further away from the sauropods we know and love, and look at epipophyses outside of Ornithodira. Here, for example, is [...]

Das Innere der Erde 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [14:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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Der Mars: Tektonik 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [13:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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Great Geology in Google Maps: mapping from above 

Metageologist [12:00:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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In most cases, geological maps are made by piecing together observations of hundreds of individual outcrops. Boundaries between types of rock are covered in grass and sheep and have to be traced on the map [...]

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: Politics and Geology Square Off in a Town with a Big Problem 

Geotripper [00:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (714 visits) info
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Twin Lakes, above the town of Mammoth Lakes on the edge of the Long Valley Caldera So what happened in Mammoth Lakes? In the last post we talked about the titanic explosion at the Long Valley Caldera [...]
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