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Friday, 08 May 2015
Sub-Tropical Storm Ana Taking on Tropical Storm Charecteristics
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:56:44]
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Pretty cool shot no? NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly took that photo on-board the ISS. Here is a view (below) from this afternoon from the NASA Aqua satellite (just a little higher up from the ISS). If the convection can wrap around the center, this system may become mainly a tropical cyclone. It appears to be a hybrid storm as of now. Satellite images this afternoon indicate that it is taking
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Risk of rock collapse in Ketilbjörg cliffs
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:31:21]
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IS
There is currently a high risk of rock collapse in Ketilbjörg cliffs in north-west Iceland. This area is located north of Sauðárkrókur town. The area is now extremely dangerous due to the fact that the rock can fall … Continue reading
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Stegosaurus by Rod Ruth
tödlich für Radfahrer und Fußgänger - der tote Winkel
Edward Alexander (Ed) Nowatzki: 1936-2015
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of a mentor and former colleague, Dr. Ed Nowatzki, PE, PhD, D.GE, F. ASCE. His obituary can be found here. I first met Ed when I took his [...]New books
Congratulations to two friends on their new books. Dave Tucker‘s Geology Underfoot in Western Washington has its official book release on Tuesday, May 12, at 7PM, at the Whatcom Museum Rotunda Room in [...]Nepal earthquake: update on landslide hazard (8 May)
British Geological Survey, Durham University, ICIMOD, NASA, and University of Arizona Please note: A higher-resolution version of the map, and black-and-white versions, are available from: [...]When continents collide: Active deformation and seismic hazard
Since 1900, 35 earthquakes worldwide have each killed at least 10,000 people. Of these, 26 were in the Alpine-Himalayan seismic belt – a broad “crumple zone” where the African, Arabian and Indian [...]NSF-sponsored workshop on Future Directions in Tectonics
Future research in tectonics and structural geology is the focus of an NSF-sponsored workshop to be held in Madison, Wisconsin on July 22-24, 2015 – aimed to assemble a diverse range of earth scientists [...]Science Starts with density and distance
A rousing game of “Will it Float?” occasionally played on The Late Show with David Letterman was really just an impressively popular density guessing game. In our recently added Science Start Outreach [...]Blog Break
Geology for Global Development [11:00:08]
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We’ll be taking a break from blogging for the next fortnight. Don’t forget you can find a wide range of articles in our archives on topics from water, hazards, disasters and
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Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: At the Portal of Hell in the Diablo Range
Sneak Peeks from Frenchman Coulee
Greetings from the dry side! B and I crossed the Cascades in search of lotsa lava for you, and we found plenty. Here’s a sneak peek! There’s a delightful juxtaposition between fire and... -- Read [...]Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Jurassic coral with beekite preservation from southern Israel
Wooster Geologists [06:42:21]
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Jurassic; IL
This week’s fossil is again in honor of Annette Hilton (’17), now retired as my Sophomore Research Assistant this year. She has been assessing with great skill a large and diverse collection of [...]
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Big M4 earthquake in Texas
Falling Water Table Creates Hazards in Cedar Valley
Bill Lund, one of our senior scientists here at the Utah Geological Survey, weighs in on the issues surrounding groundwater mining and its effects in Iron County. kuer.org We can’t see aquifers, but [...]Three Great Good reasons to Purchase a Portable Air Conditioner
1. The popular host oprah explained consequently. 2. It appears as if your software through “Lost Inside Space”. 3. Kaira along with Angelina tend to be adopting one. For anybody who you could make your [...]Science talk series
In the series of science talks after the crossover meetings, today we had the double bonanza of listening to two very different aspects [...]Iceland’s Bárðarbunga-Holuhraun: a remarkable volcanic eruption
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [18:12:41]
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KM,ET,IS,MX
A six month long eruption accompanied by caldera subsidence and huge amounts of emitted gasses and extruded lavas; there is no doubt that the eruption of the Icelandic volcano in late 2014 and early 2015 was [...]
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Critical Role for Geospatial Data in Advancing Sustainable Development Goals
To ensure no one is left behind by the next generation of global development goals, a comprehensive mix of robust data is needed to measure progress and guide investments. A recent report coordinated by [...]Friday fold: Foreknobs formation
Last one in the triumverate sent in by reader Eric Fulmer: Annotated: Happy Friday and (for many of you) happy end of theNew Federal Oil-By-Rail Regulations Published
Today, May 8, 2015, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published a final rule for rail transport of crude oil in the Federal Register. These rules come after several high-profile oil [...]June - William Smith lecture and field trip / July - field trip
Geology in the West Country [15:13:00]
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GB,DE,US,IT
June 4thWilliam Smith's earliest career to 1810 (and thus his time in the Bath area)Professor Hugh Torrens, Keele UniversityFurther details on Bath GS websiteSaturday 13th JuneWilliam Smith day: from Tucking [...]
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What’s up? The Friday links (79)
The Geoblogosphere is full of links on the Gorka Earthquake in Nepal – and we have some links on this major event, too. But we found also some few more links on creating beautiful scientific posters, [...]El Tucanosaurio del PRI y del PVE de México
Huge Undersea Landslide Caused Tsunami in Great Britain, Norway
The largest known undersea landslide occurred over 8,000 years ago off the coast of Norway. The volume of material that moved is mind-blowing, over 4.6 X 1012 cubic yards or 850 cubic miles! Known as the [...]Sneak Peeks from Frenchman Coulee
Greetings from the dry side! B and I crossed the Cascades in search of lotsa lava for you, and we found plenty. Here’s a sneak peek! There’s a delightful juxtaposition between fire and... -- Read [...]May 8, 2015
Nepal: Landslides Triggered by the Gorkha EarthquakeThe Landslide Blog NASA Technology Located Four Trapped Earthquake Victims in Nepal, by Detecting Their HeartbeatsNASA Drought Kills Millions of Trees in [...]Minerals on eBay not from museum collection
Copyright from the lens of reality
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [01:01:43]
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This post is a response to Copyright from the lens of a lawyer (and poet), posted a couple of days ago by Elsevier’s General Counsel, Mark Seeley. Yes, I am a slave to SIWOTI syndrome. No, I [...]
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