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Monday, 11 May 2015

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Long Series Of Quakes At Mono Lake 

Volcano Science And News Blog [06:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (738 visits) info
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 US,IN
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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 [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Hammer Metals vermeldet erste sehr gute Ergebnisse des aktuellen Bohrprogramms 

Rohstoff Blog [08:40:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (637 visits) info
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Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited, an der die Deutsche Rohstoff zu 17,3% beteiligt ist, vermeldete heute die ersten Ergebnisse

New paleoseismology literature 

Paleoseismicity [11:44:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (632 visits) info
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 US
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, [...]

bold or striking would at first seem only grotesque 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [15:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info
category→recreation
 Jurassic; US,HK
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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 [...]

Cottage Report 

Ontario-geofish [00:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
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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 [...]

Siberian Haze in North-Central Nevada 

Looking for Detachment [18:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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 NG,US
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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 [...]

Abstract: Assessing the Possibilities of the West Creek Watershed Stewardship Center Vegetated Roof 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [21:20:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Jalbire, Sindhupalchok: the best landslide video from the Nepal earthquake to date? 

The Landslide Blog [11:14:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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 NP
A new, very good video has been posted on Youtube showing landslides at Jalbire triggered by the Gorkha earthquake in

Di kambrischen Alaunschiefer Skandinaviens und ihre Trilobitenfauna 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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Gorkha earthquake update 

The Landslide Blog [10:23:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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 NP
Gorkha earthquake update: landslides triggered by the Nepal seismic

Born This Day: Doug McLure 

Palaeoblog [12:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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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 [...]

Unforced Variations: May 2015 

Real Climate [12:44:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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This month’s open

Modelling ancient and modern magnetic fields 

Earth Learning Idea [10:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
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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 [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Foehn clouds 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:35:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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 Quaternary; AU,NZ,CN,KM,AS,
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 [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 5/11-5/17 

BEYONDbones [03:00:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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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! Lecture – Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences Of A [...]

Mikado Street in Seattle 

New Stories in Stone [16:37:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (619 visits) info
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 US,JP
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 [...]

May 11, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info
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 NP,GB
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 [...]

Putting Knowledge to Work in the Real World: The Capstone Projects 

State of the Planet [15:58:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info
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 CO
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 [...]

[jules' pics] The prodigal cat 

James’ Empty Blog [18:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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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 [...]

Darlington gets ready for new nuclear 

Ontario-geofish [00:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

In a slump 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [22:46:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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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 [...]

And I, for one, welcome our new wukongopterid pterosaur overlords (to Europe) 

markwitton.com blog [17:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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 Jurassic; GB,CN,US,DE,,IN
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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 [...]

A followup on Elsevier’s defence of scholarly copyright 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:33:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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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 [...]

Dünnschliff eines Onkoid aus der Alz 

//Krustenstein.de -- Infos zu Krustensteinen, Furchensteinen, Hirnsteinen und Onkoiden am Chiemsee [07:03:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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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

Small glacier flood from Grímsfjall volcano caldera 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:16:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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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 [...]

Jurassic Lark 

Koprolitos [13:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
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 Jurassic
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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 [...]

Die Evolution de Klimas der Erde 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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Deutsche Rohstoff: Hammer Metals vermeldet erste sehr gute Ergebnisse des aktuellen Bohrprogramms 

Rohstoff Blog [08:40:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (28 visits) info
Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited, an der die Deutsche Rohstoff zu 17,3% beteiligt ist, vermeldete heute die ersten Ergebnisse
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