Volcano Science And News Blog [06:41:00]
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Mono Lakes Eastern shore has been shaking lately. A lot. This has been going on for around a week now, as I have kept my eyes on it. Nobody is writing anything particularly useful about the goings-on there, so I thought it would be good to mention it.Screenshot of Mono Lake quake swarm from Google Earth with USGS Real-time quake overlay.The Eastern shore of Mono Lake is experiencing a couple of small shallow quake swarms, although some quakes have reached magnitude three or higher. This is [...]
It was quite a long break since I’ve posted the last literature round-up and that’s why the list is really long today. Here are the latest papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics, [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [15:00:00]
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West side of Comb Ridge (answer to recent Geo-challenge). The sloping east side covered in Navajo sandstone is more familiar – see photos below.Around 70 million years ago, something dramatic happened [...]
Despite the horribly cold winter the ice went out of the lake on time, and we even were able to open up a week before long weekend. So we haven't quite gone back to the 70's. We were totally dying with [...]
It is often — more commonly than in the past, IMO — hazy or dusty in north-central Nevada where I routinely work and often travel, here and there across basins and over ranges. And in summer and fall (and [...]
Results of our work on green infrastructure at Cleveland Metroparks Watershed Stewardship Center will make its debut at the CitiesAlive 13th Annual Green Roofs & Walls Conference, in New York, NY from [...]
A new, very good video has been posted on Youtube showing landslides at Jalbire triggered by the Gorkha earthquake in
Gorkha earthquake update: landslides triggered by the Nepal seismic
Greatest movie poster ever?
Actor Doug Mclure (May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995) takes a bow here for playing Bowen Tyler in the film adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs books, At the Earth’s Core, The Land [...]
New Earthlearningidea - 'Human magnets!' This involves using your pupils to model ancient and modern magnetic fields.
Iron-rich minerals in igneous rocks, such as magnetite, may become magnetised as the rock [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:35:51]
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This week’s post is brought to you by Stefan Winkler, a Senior Lecturer in Quaternary Geology & Palaeoclimatology, who explains how the mountain tops of the Southern Alps become decorated by [...]
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! Lecture – Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences Of A [...]
I have read in a variety of books, articles, and web sites that one of the earlier signs of the presence of Japanese in Seattle was the street name “Mikado Street.” The reference, I believe, is to [...]
Sunstone: Gem Feldspar that is Sometimes AventurescentGeology.com Nepal: Landslide Dam Forms a Lake After the Gorkha EarthquakeNASA Video: Snow-White Speleothems at Shatter Cave (England)CavingNews.com Bank of [...]
The study of sustainability management and environmental policy is put to the test when applied to solving real world problems. Students in Columbia University’s Master of Science in Sustainability [...]
Oh noes. He's back!
Apparently, Riley the cat has too much character, and his new owners gave him back after less than a week. So, on return from Vienna we had to go and pick him up again. However, Riley [...]
I was amazed when I drove by the old place. When I worked there I called it 'Lobotomy Central' only because everybody was so peaceful and happy. It doesn't mean anything else, really.
So they're taking [...]
JOIDES Resolution blogs [22:46:09]
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Not entirely sure where our friend the Indus Fan is hiding but at the moment we are spending our days looking at dramatic deposits like the one in [...]
markwitton.com blog [17:52:00]
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(142 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic; GB,CN,US,DE,,IN
Upper Jurassic pterosaur Cuspicephalus scarfi, a species of some uncertain affinity, now confidently restored as a wukongopterid. How come? Read on. If you'd like a print of this image, please head to my print [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:33:33]
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In response to my post Copyright from the lens of reality and other rebuttals of his original post, Elseviers General Counsel Mark Seeley has provided a lengthy comment. Here’s my response (also posted [...]
//Krustenstein.de -- Infos zu Krustensteinen, Furchensteinen, Hirnsteinen und Onkoiden am Chiemsee [07:03:21]
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Von einem großen Onkoid der Oberen Alz (entnommen im August 2013) gibts in der Zwischenzeit eine Reihe von Dünnschliffe. siehe auch – Onkoid
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:16:03]
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Today (11-May-2015) a glacier flood started from Grísmfjall volcano caldera. This is not a dangerous glacier flood due to its small size. There is however a danger from sulphur gases and other gases that [...]
En este diseño de camiseta de Ray Frenden para Design by Hümans, la señora Val C. Raptor ha obtenido una calificación muy alta en su examen de tácticas de equipo. ¡Bravo por ella! Puedes conseguirla por [...]
Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited, an der die Deutsche Rohstoff zu 17,3% beteiligt ist, vermeldete heute die ersten Ergebnisse