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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

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Primeros fósiles de 2015 en Somosaguas-Norte 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [23:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
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Pues ya en el segundo día de excavación se ha instalado la normalidad en el yacimiento. Los primeros fósiles van apareciendo y nuestras listas van incrementándose con diversidad de piezas. Como habitualmente, lo más abundante son las esquirlas y los fragmentos inidentificables. Pero eso no es óbice para que de vez en cuando aparezcan piezas de mayor interés. Y todavía estamos muy al comienzo

NOAA: 2015 So Far is Hottest On Record 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:49:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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NASA released their data last week showing that the year so far is the hottest on record, and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly National Climate Data Center) came out with their summary today. NASA and NOAA (along with the UK and Japan) use slightly different methods to compile the data, which is a very common method in science. More from NOAA NCEI: Global highlights: April 2015    

Preliminary Injunction Motion Filed To Stop BLM’s Final Fracking Rule 

Mineral Law Blog [23:15:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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Last Friday, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and the Western Energy Alliance (WEA) opened their arguments on a preliminary injunction motion to halt the federal Bureau of Land [...]

Arktis: Warmzeit mit Pause - Rekonstruktion der arktischen Klimaverhältnisse in der Kreidezeit 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
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Wissenschaftler der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt und des Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrums haben gemeinsam mit kanadischen Kollegen die klimatische Entwicklung des arktischen Ozeans [...]

Herpe primitivo 

Koprolitos [21:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
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Me Gusta Más Que Desayunar Un Herpe es un fanzine que fusiona "el comix y la cultura underground, garagera y rocanrolera, todo ello alimentado de películas de carnaza, vampiros, zombis y monstruos [...]

Preserving the Origins of Environmental Law for a New Generation of Leaders 

State of the Planet [18:41:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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In fall 2014, Columbia University, through the School of International and Public Affairs, the School of Continuing Education and the Earth Institute, offered a never-before-taught class on ‘The Origins of [...]

Born This Day: William King Gregory 

Palaeoblog [16:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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imageWilliam King Gregory (May, 19 1876 – Dec. 29, 1970) was an American zoologist and paleontologist who studied under Henry Fairfield Osborn and joined the American Museum of Natural History in 1911. As a [...]

Premiered This Day (1915): The Dinosaur & The Missing Link 

Palaeoblog [14:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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On this day back in 1915, The Dinosaur and The Missing took its bow in US cinemas. It features the earliest work of a young Willis O'Brien who would go on to bring King Kong to life. Watch the film thanks to [...]

I post di Billy ed il Clonesauro servono a fare audiance? 

Theropoda [13:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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Un commentatore del blog criticava che: "purtroppo il dottor Cau deve tenere alti gli ascolti e non sapendo cosa scrivere.....allora si attacca a Jurassic world." e concludeva con: "perciò [...]

Public access to results of NSF-funded research 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [11:28:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
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Somehow this seems to have slipped under the radar: National Science Foundation announces plan for comprehensive public access to research results. They put it up on 18 March, two whole months ago, so our [...]

Workshop ‘Earthquake activity and hazard in northwest Europe’, Belgium, 15 October, 2015 

Paleoseismicity [10:55:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (593 visits) info
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Our colleagues in Belgium have reasons to celebrate! At the Membach station they’re monitoring seismic activity for 40 years now, and 20 years ago the superconducting gravimeter started working. To [...]

AssociateCurator of Paleontology. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center in California 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [09:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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The Associate Curator will be responsible for the preparation, curation,and utilization of the fossils in the collection.   Most of the fossilsare unprepared and uncurated.  This then is a major [...]

May 19, 2015 

Geology.com News [07:10:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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Curiosity Rover Records A Sunset on MarsNASA Caving Trip at Salma Plateau, OmanCavingNews.com Colombia Landslide Kills DozensCNN Self-Healing Concrete: Dormant Bacteria Wait for a FractureCNN Prices Rising for [...]

Online Low-cost Clothes Are Favourite Hotspots for the Teenagers on the internet 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [05:10:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (652 visits) info
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On the internet clothes stores offer underwear, swim-wear, buckskinovercoats, parkas and also laid-back use to suit any kind of dimensions. http://bajumuslimwanita.com/ You are able to discover online [...]

The way to Save Nature 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [01:09:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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We all know that mom nature has given us all of the issues we want, i.e., food, material and shelter. Our ancestors had been additionally utterly rely upon nature. They gave full respect to nature. They take [...]

Saltwater SWAT team: Top 5 fascinating shark hunting techniques 

BEYONDbones [22:31:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
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I’ve been entranced by sharks since I was a little kid. From the first time I saw Jaws, I was hooked (pun intended). There are so many aspects of a shark’s physiology I admire, but my favorite point of [...]

Fracking 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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Sachliche Informationen zum Thema Fracking sind nicht so einfach zu bekommen. Zu sehr ist das Tema bereits mit Emotionen belastet. darin ähnelt dieses Thema anderen wie zum Beispiel der Gentechnik. Um so [...]

Passing of Willlard Cox, long-time Arizona geologist 

Arizona Geology [19:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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New Vegetated Floating Islands For Lake LaVerne 

Lake Scientist [16:32:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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Following an uptick in algal blooms on Lake LaVerne, which sits on the campus of Iowa State University, teachers and students at the school are launching a pilot project to[...] The post New Vegetated Floating [...]

Interfacing the Anthropocene Part III 

Friends of the Pleistocene [14:35:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info
“Is it not impossible that future humans will have built something like spirituality around these materials?” Care for the hyperobject will emerge … What do you do with the radioactive waste? [...]

Born This Day: Carl Akeley 

Palaeoblog [13:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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Read his story over at Atomic Surgery The Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History exists thanks to the efforts of Carl Akeley (May 19, 1864 - Nov 17, 1926) who was the kind of [...]

Yorkshire volcanic ash helps to improve flight safety forecasts 

Climate and Geohazards [12:41:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
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Predictions of where planes can safely fly following volcanic eruptions could be improved, thanks to fresh discoveries about ash clouds. To study the size of ash grains and how far they can travel, scientists [...]

How big are the grains in a volcanic ash cloud? 

Volcan01010 [11:28:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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Ever since European airspace was temporarily shut down during the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, aircraft in the region have been allowed to fly through parts of volcanic ash clouds where the [...]

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: The Sea Floor that Became the Greatest Agricultural Region on Earth 

Geotripper [10:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (764 visits) info
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Welcome to one of the strangest places on the planet! It's the size of West Virginia, but flatter than the Mississippi River Valley. It was once America's Serengeti, but 95% of the original landscape has been [...]

Salgar, Antioquia, Colombia: a landslide killed at least 63 people yesterday 

The Landslide Blog [08:42:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (650 visits) info
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A debris flow at Salgar in Antioquia in Colombia yesterday killed at least 63 people and left an unknown number

Nature is healing, enter it 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [05:25:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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The design of our culture guarantees we experience a degree of separation and interference. When ever you find on your own in a low, thick vibration where your mind lacks clearness and also your physique [...]

Bit change 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [03:43:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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We have now successfully recovered the top 200 m of the sediment at our new site and we are now preparing to drill deeply, hopefully as far as 1000 m [...]

Bamboo for Residing 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [01:04:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
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Bamboo is without doubt one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth. Culms are ready for use in construction inside three to seven years. Although still new in market, bamboo charcoal and bamboo fiber products [...]
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