On Tuesday, April 7, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register for regulation of wastewater from unconventional oil and gas operations (“UOG”), which includes hydraulic fracturing. The rule, titled “Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category,” is a Clean Water Act … Continue
Earth Sciences and Maps Library Blog [22:46:00]
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The UC Berkeley community now has access to the complete collection of Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970, covering the entire United States. This purchase was made possible through the increased collections funding the Library received following the Report from the Commission on the Future of the UC Berkeley Library. Prior to the Spring 2015 semester, the Library only subscribed to the digital Sanborn collection covering the state of California. This new purchase guarantees perpetual access to [...]
La vita é difficile nell´antro della terra, ancora di più per organismi non adatti alle condizioni proibitive incontrate laggiù. Ma fin´dall´antichità le ricchezze nascoste – prima selce e molto [...]
You may have felt rumblings reverberating through the Internet this week, like the roll of distant thunder. That’s
Geological Society of London blog [16:29:20]
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A guest post from Colin Summerhayes, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Before we can understand how humans may be changing the climate, we need to establish a baseline. We have one in the geological [...]
Geology in the West Country [20:07:00]
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Read moreThe spheres above represent the volume of erupted tephra for some of the most widely-known volcanic eruptions. Most people believe that Vesuvius in AD79, Mount St. Helens 1980, Mount Pinatubo 1991 [...]
When you think of a scary dinosaur, what comes to mind? The agile, sickle-clawed Utahraptor? A towering Tyrannosaurus?
Today's new ELI addresses the common misconceptions about weathering and erosion.
Textbook surveys have shown that misconceptions between weathering and erosion are common, when the scientific consensus is [...]
During my recent travels in Australia, I noticed quite a bit of sandstone around Sydney. Therefore, I was not particularly surprised to also see quite a few sandstone building stones around the city. For [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [04:58:23]
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This is from the NASA Aqua satellite. You can see the green of spring moving into Virginia, while snow remains in the Adirondacks. High resolution, color imagery from polar orbiting satellites allows folks [...]
Geology in the West Country [20:11:00]
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Ok, here's the deal. Those oil tanks all rupture at a PGV of 50 cm/s. The pitiful dykes don't have a chance. There is a sea of oil, and the crunching steel sets it ablaze.
Probably better than going [...]
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GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:44]
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The EGU’s Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) programme offers teachers attending the conference the opportunity to hone their Earth science skills. The General Assembly workshop is one of GIFT’s [...]
An important new paper by Royan et al (2015) has used terrestrial LiDAR to examine progressive failure of a rockslope in
Ocean acidification and the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. 2015. Clarkson, et al. Science
Art by Basil WolvertonChanges to the Earth's oceans, caused by extreme volcanic activity, triggered the greatest [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:55:51]
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deseretnews.com It’s 2 a.m. on an April Thursday. Along the Wasatch Front, most of the more than 2 million Utahns who live here are sleeping, at home in suburban homes or aging apartments, even as thousands [...]
by James Talmage, Scout Programs After more than a year of hard work, Girl Scouts Heidi Tamm, Zoe Kass, Meredith Lytle and her sister Angela Lytle completed the entire Scouts@HMNS Careers in Science [...]
Sustainable investment leader Mindy S. Lubber, president of the Boston-based Ceres, will speak on "Using the Tools of the System to Sustain the Planet" at a special Earth Day class session on April
Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:08:30]
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deseretnews.com A Colorado River ferry operator named Arthur Chaffin created quite a stir more than half-a-century ago in 1949 when, armed solely with his camera, he set off from his cabin in Hite to a remote [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [20:13:29]
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A couple of weeks ago, Mike sent me a link to this interview with ecologist James O’Hanlon, who made this poster (borrowed from this post on O’Hanlon’s blog): We had a short email exchange [...]
Tiny Iceland is a prime exemplar of the complexities wrought by warming climate. It is 11 percent covered by ice, but it is basically also one very large, very active volcanic system. The island has [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [18:39:00]
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Ovos de crocodilomorfos estiveram em destaque quando João Russo defendeu esta segunda feira, 13 de Abril de 2015, no Campus da FCT-UNL na Caparica a sua dissertação intitulada "Eggs and eggshells of [...]
I write of the sex of this weekend’s operas; the rest must remain unwritten. For it is the opera of personal life. It started painfully enough when the dentist extracted a tooth that has plagued me [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [15:00:24]
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The selection committee received over 200 photos for this year’s EGU Photo Contest, covering fields across the geosciences. The fantastic finalist photos are below and they are being exhibited in Hall [...]
Since March of 2003, the FHWA’s Geotechnical Engineering Circular Number 7 (GEC No. 7) has been the standard reference document for design and construction of soil nail retaining walls in roadway [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [09:30:39]
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Welcome to the 2015 General Assembly! This is the first full day of sessions and there’s a feast of them to choose from. Every day we’ll be sharing some super sessions and events at EGU 2015 here on GeoLog [...]
Geology for Global Development [12:23:39]
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How can an understanding of geology support and strengthen international development? #7 – Identifying, extracting and managing natural resources, including appropriate environmental protection and [...]
It's working fine for me. I wonder if they have the alx bug fixed now. 3.9.3 activated that bug and I was waiting for the next version, but it hasn't come yet. It's my laptop with the funny ethernet [...]
Guest posting from Bill Ruddiman, University of Virginia Recently I’ve read claims that some scientists are opposed to AGW but won’t speak out because they fear censure from a nearly monolithic community [...]
Gressly (July 17, 1814 - April 13, 1965) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist who was a pioneer, and regarded by some as the founder, of paleogeography. He is known for his work identifying stratigraphic [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [13:19:21]
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Die Fördergemeinschaft Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft e. V.: brachte die neue Broschüre
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Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! NOW OPEN! Special Exhibition – China’s Lost [...]
n einer Studie, die jetzt in der Zeitschrift Earth-Science
Reviews erschienen ist, befassen sich Prof. Dierk Hebbeln und Prof.
Elias Samankassou, Universität Genf, mit der Entstehung von
Kalkschlammhügeln [...]
Using Satellite Data to Track Freshwater Algal ThreatsUnited States Geological Survey Crude Swaps as an Alternative to ExportsOil and Gas Journal Mexican Official Says U.S. Oil Swap Proposal [...]
Iceland has a complicated relationship with climate change. As in much of the far north, global warming is already exerting many effects here–arguably both good and bad. Yet the country contributes [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:01:28]
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deseretnews.com Drop, cover and hold on. More than 700,000 Utahns will be participating in a statewide earthquake drill Thursday for the annual Great Utah ShakeOut, an initiative to help people and [...]
The wooden model used to explore poses for the original brontosaur mount is now on display beside therevised mount at the AMNH. Photo by the author.Here's one more post to commemorate the revival of the [...]