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Monday, 04 May 2015

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Beginning to identify minerals 

Earth Learning Idea [20:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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The ELI 'Be a mineral expert 1; beginning to identify minerals' introduces colour, habit, lustre and cleavage as ways of identifying one mineral from another. The activity uses simple visual tests to identify a set of ‘unknown’ minerals. This is the first in a series of activities on minerals which can be used in a variety of lessons, ranging from the nature of minerals as the ‘building

Bruce Black Hole to be given green light this week 

Ontario-geofish [12:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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Article I can give this prediction with certainty.  Their contract is up.  There is no provision for follow-up.  They will give the usual thumbs-up with questions, with no interest to see the answers. I won't even read the report, since they rejected anything of interest for me.  So, now to the shaft!  Things to look for will be the amount of grout, and how they handle the pumped-out rock

Dinos in Pop Culture - Jurassic World Dino Gummies 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [22:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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Would you like a prehistoric snack? Well now you can munch on some dinosaurs with Jurassic World fruit flavored snacks.Truth be told, I am actually quite fond of fruit snacks and these taste like any [...]

LA ANTICIENCIA EN LOS MEDIOS (II) El verdadero pecado 

episcophagus [12:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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Dos micro-relatos sobre Eousdryosaurus, el pequeño ornitópodo portugués 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [15:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US
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Hace unos meses pasaron desapercibidos estos dos micro-relatos sobre Eousdryosaurus publicados en el Tumblr "Somewhere in Cretaceous Utah". Dicho Tumblr trata sobre el tiranosáurido Lythronax y sus [...]

Boletín Digital Geosfera Mayo 2015 

Geosfera [10:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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 ES,US,MX
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Este mes destacamos las siguientes actividades en nuestro Boletín:- Geolodía 2015: Una oportunidad única para conocer la Geología de muchas regiones de la geografía española los días 9-10 de mayo. Para [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Colourful hydrovolcanism 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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 NL,ES,CN,AU,GB
Like in a beautiful painting, layers of colour adorn the flanks of this volcano. In this week’s Imaggeo on Monday’s post, Stephanie Flude describes how these colourful layers came to be and gives an [...]

Born This Day: Thomas Huxley 

Palaeoblog [12:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
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From the UC Berkeley Page: Huxley (May, 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895) was born in Ealing, near London, the seventh of eight children in a family that was none too affluent. At 21, Huxley signed on as assistant [...]

Una sorpresa: dinosaurios hadrosáuridos diminutos al final del Cretácico en los Pirineos 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [19:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US,FR,ES
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La fauna de hadrosáuridos ibéricos es bien conocida desde finales del siglo pasado y durante las dos últimas décadas se han realizados múltiples publicaciones. Los restos de hadrosáuridos en la [...]

May 4, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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 US
Frozen Heat: A Global Outlook on Methane HydratesNational Energy Technology Laboratory Methane Hydrate: The World’s Largest Natural Gas ResourceGeology.com Gas Hydrate Deposits in the Kumano Forearc [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 5/4-5/10 

BEYONDbones [03:00:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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 IN
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! Special Exhibition: Crystals Of India Closes May 10HMNS at [...]

What Lies Beneath Yellowstone? Yosemite, of course! 

Geotripper [10:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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Upper Yosemite Falls, 1,250 feet high. Taken together the three components of Yosemite Falls amount to the fifth or seventh highest waterfall on the planet, at 1,425 feet (depending on who is measuring). [...]

New Program Designed to Keep Kids in School in Uganda 

State of the Planet [17:53:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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 UG
Though many more children throughout the world are attending primary school since the Millennium Development Goals were adopted 15 years ago, in order to sustain the success, increasing matriculation and [...]

U.S. Drought Risk Wider than Previously Thought 

State of the Planet [15:10:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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New project research conducted as part of the Columbia Water Center's "America's Water Initiative" suggests that many more places in the United States are at risk of drought-induced water stress than is [...]

Earth Institute Annual Fund Update 

State of the Planet [22:16:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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To date, we have seen an increase in donations of over 100% from the entirety of 2013. These gifts have come in from all over the world, spanning 32 countries and representing interest in diverse areas of [...]

Das ITVA Altlastensymposium 2015 in Bochum #3 – Grundwassersanierung, Kampfmittelräumung und Flächenrecycling 

Mente et Malleo [23:27:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 DE
Dritter Teil meiner Nachlese zum ITVA Altlastensymposium 2015 in Bochum (der erste und der zweite finden sich hier). Eigentlich kennt ja jeder das Prinzip, das uns Bernd Kopp von der HPC AG und Dr. Frank [...]

Party on dude! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [03:22:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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Das Schiefergas in Schwedens Kruste ist jung 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
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     Ergebnis eines neuen hydrogeochemischen Ansatzes Das Schiefergas in Schwedens Kruste ist jung Tektonik und tiefe Biosphäre Das in Schwedens Erdkruste vorhandene Schiefergas [...]

Yi qi the Wyvern 

Koprolitos [09:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
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Rebecca Groom es una vieja conocida en Koprolitos debido a que ya hablamos de sus peluches y un diseño de camiseta con Microraptor como protagonista. En esta ocasión traemos otro diseño de camiseta, esta [...]
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