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Friday, 20 February 2015

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Keisha graduates from SIUC 

Riparian Rap [21:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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Our colleague Keisha Luhrsen is now with us full time!As of December, Keisha is officially a graduate of Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, and she holds a bachelor’s degree in zoology.Part of her field work included sampling vegetation composition and density on various sites along the Cache River wetlands and tracking local populations of swamp rabbits via radio telemetry.Keisha started working with us at Little River in 2013. Her knowledge of wildlife biology and ecology [...]

US NorthEast runs out of cheap natural gas 

Ontario-geofish [15:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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Reference I was just going to leave this as a g+ post, but it's too good.  As we know (but not the usgus!), all the OK earthquakes are caused by shale gas fracking waste, because that contains surface water (meteoric) that is corrosive to the deep quartz holding the rocks together. It had looked earlier that they would stop all that, but this winter will deplete all stocks in the US NE.

Wonder Women of STEM: Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut. 

BEYONDbones [14:00:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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 US
Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth in a series featuring influential women from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields in the lead up to HMNS’ annual GEMS (Girls Exploring Math and [...]

Geosciences Column: The quest for life on Mars 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:45:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
Understanding where we come from and whether Earth is the only habitable planet in the Solar System has been a long standing conundrum in science. Partly because it is our nearest neighbour, partly because of [...]

Deinonychus, Parasaurolophus, Dreadnoughtus and Carnotaurus welcome in the MarkWitton.com print store 

markwitton.com blog [12:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US,HU,
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Since launching a limited print buying service at the close of last year I've had enough interest to warrant investing more resources into print sales. The result is an online print store over at the new [...]

Rigged: The Slow Decline Of India's National Oil Company 

Reporting on a Revolution [11:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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 IN
This article came out last year but I came across it today via twitter. In Caravan magazine Krishn Kaushik  writes about India's flagship oil  company the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited and its [...]

What’s up? The Friday links (71) 

paleoseismicity.org [09:38:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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 US,NZ
And again it’s almost the start of a weekend! I collected some nice links for you, I hope you like them. Today is Friday and here are your links! The recent Mw 6.0 Wilberforce earthquake in New Zealand [...]

The Cambrian Explosion - Lord, Why? 

Koprolitos [08:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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The Cambrian Explosion es un grupo procedente de Melbourne (Australia) compuesto por los músicos multiinstrumentistas Rohan Long, Simon Long y Jem Savage. La banda se formó en 2009, y desde entonces han [...]

February 20, 2015 

Geology.com News [07:10:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 US
Monster Hurricanes Struck the Northeast in Prehistoric Periods of Ocean WarmingNational Science Foundation Refracking Old Wells ?Bloomberg Update: Pikoo Kimberlite ProjectMining.com Diamond Prices Expected to [...]

GeoSights February 19, 2015: Devil’s Playground 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:25:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
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Do you think playgrounds are boring? Are you getting sick of the same old swing and slide? Well check out this playground—it rocks! Devils Playground is not your typical playground at the park, but a [...]

Mysterious demise of an Australian thunder bird 

State of the Planet [14:00:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 AU,IN
  Here, mankind and death coincide, But everyone’s still mystified … Geologists find This thunder bird’s kind Were lost as Australia dried.   [...]

Portugalophis, entre as primeiras serpentes 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [12:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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 GB,AU,US,AR,PT,UM,ES,FI
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Numa reviravolta surpreendente no nosso conhecimento sobre a evolução das serpentes, que se julgava ter tido início no Cretácico superior (Cenomaniano ~100Ma), um novo estudo mostra que as primeiras [...]

Il mulino di Amleto, il Serpente Cosmico e una stella che può spiegare i miti dell'Eurasia e delle Americhe 

scienzeedintorni [12:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
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 ES,CH,PH,CN,HK,US,FR,IR,RU,TR,IT,SI,BR,MX,DE
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Qualche anno fa lessi una cosa che mi lasciò molto colpito sulle analogie nella nomenclatura delle costellazioni in tutta l'Eurasia e le Americhe. Purtroppo era una rivista cartacea (tipologia che, insieme ai [...]

‘A love letter to the scenery of the Jurassic Coast’ – the geology of Broadchurch 

Geological Society of London blog [10:59:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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 Jurassic; IE
Did Joe kill Danny? Do we care about Sandbrook? What’s with all the bluebells? Will Alec make it through those super tense court scenes alive? On Monday, at least some of these questions should be [...]

De neandertales y monstruos marinos 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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Los alrededores del municipio de Pinilla del Valle, en Madrid, son bien conocidos por sus yacimientos fósiles. Desde hace muchos años se han ido recuperando en sucesivas campañas de excavación restos de [...]

You Think Some Fish You Caught Was Tough? How Does it Stack Up Against This One? 

Geotripper [08:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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What kinds of fish are tough? Some Marlin that you spent a couple of hours trying to reel in one time in Mexico? A nice two pound Rainbow Trout that fought hard against your fishing skills in a mountain lake [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A molded brachiopod from the Lower Carboniferous of Ohio 

Wooster Geologists [06:10:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
We haven’t had a local fossil featured on this blog for awhile. Above is an external mold of the spiriferid brachiopod Syringothyris typa Winchell, 1863, from the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous, [...]

NPP Suomi Satellite View of The Ice and Snow 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:13:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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 FI,US
The best views of Earth from space are often from the relatively new NPP/Suomi satellite. The image below is a true-colour view of a snowy and icy Northeast U.S. If you click on the image you will get a MUCH [...]
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