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Thursday, 12 March 2015

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Oklahoma M4.1 earthquake - world's lowest PGV 

Ontario-geofish [22:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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In 8 minutes, they got 5 responses, barely felt.  If this holds up, this will the weakest M4.1 in the history of shakies.  On the other hand, the sucker must be deep, which is amazing for injection earthquakes.  I'll wait.  This will get the usgus discount before the okie

Route 89 ready to open after landslide 

Central Arizona Geology Club [21:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 US
Arizona Geology blog states the the road to Page will be open by march 27.89 to OpenHarry

Strange Fossil Filter Feeder Was an Ancient Survivor 

Laelaps [21:10:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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 US
Paleontologist Jakob Vinther pointed to a rust-colored boulder sitting on the black lab table. “What do you think

Ozean auf dem Mond des Saturn weist vermutlich hydrothermale Aktivität auf 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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 DE
Auf dem Saturnmond Enceladus gibt es vermutlich hydrothermale Aktivität, was die Wahrscheinlichkeit erhöht, dass der Trabant an manchen Stellen geeignete Umweltbedingungen für lebende Organismen bietet. [...]

London Zoo - Reptile House 

The Disillusioned Taxonomist [18:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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My latest visit to London Zoo was in April 2014. I spent a long time in the Reptile House and here are some of the pictures of herpetofauna from that trip.King cobraOphiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836)Elapidae; [...]

Is This A Hoof? 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [16:28:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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is this a fossil of a

Melting Permafrost Influences Arctic Lake Methane Emissions 

Lake Scientist [14:09:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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The activities of lake sediment and microbes in the methane that Arctic lakes emit have been well studied. But the role that surrounding groundwater plays hasn’t been as closely examined.[...] The post [...]

Boden-Exkursion im Waldpark 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:56:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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 DE
Der Waldpädagoge Frank Hoffmann führt Interessierte: Wann: 21.03.2015, 10 –

Remembering the 1945 Makran Tsunami – Free book: interviews with survivors 

Paleoseismicity [11:41:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (587 visits) info
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 IN,IR,OM,PK
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Makran Earthquake and Tsunami. On 27 November, 1945, an earthquake of magnitude Mw8.1 occurred at the Makran Subduction Zone offshore Pakistan. A large tsunami was [...]

Fracking - March 17th 

Geology in the West Country [10:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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Further details Western Region

March 12, 2015 

Geology.com News [07:10:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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Israel Now Gets 40% of Its Water from DesalinationMIT Technology Review Video: The Largest Glacier Calving Event Ever FilmedExposure Labs on YouTube The World’s Top Ten Gold ProducersMining.com Video: [...]

Days Three and Four – Mojave 2015 

Wooster Geologists [04:14:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 US
Day three was spent examining the sedimentology, structure and paleontology, and a bit of the wildlife biology at Owl Canyon. We even stopped at the Payless Shoestore in nearby Barstow (Dr. Wilson’s [...]

Astonishing facts about Lake Mead 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [03:10:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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There is good and bad news about the Lake Mead to you. The US Bureau of Reclamation’s reported that some residents in the lower reaches of Lake Mead worrying about increasing the level of the water level [...]

The Los Pelambres Tailings Wall “Removal” 

I think mining [01:56:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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There are so many obvious comments on this story, that I refrain from comment.  The story tells its own story and carries it own implications loud enough. I refer to the story at many links.  This one says: [...]

NACHBergbauzeit in NRW: Tagung diskutiert Grubenwasserkonzept für das Ruhrrevier 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info
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     Das Jahr 2018 rückt näher und damit das Ende des Steinkohlenbergbaus in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Schon heute bereiten sich Unternehmen, Aufsichtsbehörden und Wissenschaftler intensiv darauf vor, wie [...]

Researchers study methane-rich plumes from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus 

AGU Meetings [19:02:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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 US
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has measured a curious abundance of methane spewing into the atmosphere of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. A team of American and French scientists published findings in Geophysical [...]

Toremys cassiopeia, una nueva tortuga ibérica 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [18:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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El yacimiento turolense de Ariño, descubierto hace pocos años, ha permitido conocer una interesante fauna del final del Cretácico Inferior (Albiense), una edad para la que el registro europeo era, hasta [...]

Things You Find in the Field: a sleeping log 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [15:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (594 visits) info
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What I found first. I was driving a narrow winding country road looking for small Precambrian outcrops poking through Tertiary fill.  I found one and luckily there was a pull-out directly across from [...]

Bruce Black Hole a Done Deal 

Ontario-geofish [14:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
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 US
Reference Yeah, I'm so happy!  Now we can go on to digging the Impossible Pit.  They will pump out the equivalent of Lake Huron, and inject a mountain of grout, and still, the thing will blow up on them. [...]

Fun with Forams 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [12:54:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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Recently, one of our paleontologists Petra Dekens celebrated her birthday on the JOIDES Resolution. Fellow paleontologist Lyndsey Fox decided to do [...]

HFA2: News, Blogs and Resources 

Geology for Global Development [11:15:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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 JP,GB
From 14-18th March, disaster professionals, politicians and other stakeholders will be gathering in Sendai (Japan) at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR). The aim of the meeting will be [...]

Extraordinary Caves You Need to Visit Before Die 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [09:44:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
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This world holds so many incredible places and one of its kind is the so beautiful cave . The cave is not located in a fairy tale world but scattered in several parts of the world such as Asia, North America [...]

Places You Won’t Believe it’s Real 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [04:44:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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 US,BO
There are many wonders in this world and age and we do not allow the opportunity to see all these wonders. In this article you will see seven very beautiful place in the world like a fantasy but it really [...]

US89 readying to re-open after two years of reconstruction following massive landslide 

Arizona Geology [04:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (575 visits) info
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 ADOT announced today that US89 will re-open on March 27, more than two years after a landslide tore up a section of the highway causing $45 million in direct costs and uncounted economic losses to the city [...]

What Strange Fossils are Found in Your Region? We have Oncorhynchus rastrosus, the Sabertooth Salmon 

Geotripper [02:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (607 visits) info
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Drawing by Jake Biewer of CSU Stanislaus I've got a delightful new project these days. As I've mentioned many times, our region has a wonderful new natural history museum in our Science Community Center. The [...]

It's Probable, so be Prepared 

Seismo Blog [00:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
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