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Wednesday, 20 May 2015

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Alumnos de "Paleontología General" en Somosaguas 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [23:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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Hoy hemos contado con la presencia del grupo A del segundo curso del Grado de Geología de la UCM, los cuales han venido a nuestro yacimiento como parte de las actividades que realizan en la asignatura "Paleontología General". Se trata en este caso de una salida de campo (la última del curso) cuya finalidad es mostrarles como se trabaja en un típico yacimiento del Neógeno ibérico... y ¿qué

New swarm of deep earthquakes in Katla volcano 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:35:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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This morning (20-May-2015) a swarm of deep earthquakes took place in Katla volcano. This earthquake activity was at depth and it means that magma was moving or dyke intrusion taking place at depth. Earthquake activity in Katla volcano … Continue reading

Die deutsche Olympiade der Geowissenschaften 

Mente et Malleo [22:54:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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 DE,AU,BR,JP
Was es nicht alles für Wettbewerbe gibt. Da kann eine geowissenschaftliche Olympiade eigentlich auch nicht fehlen, oder? Tut sie auch nicht. Und seit 2012 nimmt auch Deutschland daran teil. Die International [...]

Take It: HMNS shopping trips rival Liam Neeson’s shakedown 

BEYONDbones [22:06:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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 US
May is upon us, which means it is time for stocking up on mosquito repellent and sunscreen, flip flops and floppy hats, bathing suits and beach towels. For the education staff at the Houston Museum of Natural [...]

Kleinplanetenforschung profitiert von Gaia-Satellitenmission 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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Von der groß angelegten Gaia-Mission der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation (ESA) profitiert auch die astronomische Kleinplanetenforschung, obwohl der Astrometrie-Satellit vor allem die Aufgabe hat, rund [...]

Arizona Geology: Proposal to re-open Kirkland tuff quarry to supply concrete additive stirs up local community 

Central Arizona Geology Club [19:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (184 visits) info
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 US
 Here is the latest on the Tuff mine  from Arizona Geology.Arizona Geology: Proposal to re-open Kirkland tuff quarry to supply concrete additive stirs up local communityharry

J Tuzo Wilson's Hawaiian Dream 

Reporting on a Revolution [18:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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Again via Twitter I came across this collection of essays on eminent geologists titled Rock Stars, produced by The Geological Society of America History of Geology Division. I haven't gone through all of them [...]

Global Warming’s ‘Missing’ Heat: It May Be in the Indian Ocean 

State of the Planet [18:00:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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Since the late 1990s, global warming has stabilized, even as greenhouse gases have risen. That defies simple models that say the temperature should keep going up. Many scientists think the so-called [...]

Warning of man made earthquakes in Hengill volcano 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [17:18:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Almannavarnir put out a warning yesterday (19-May-2015) about increased risk of man made earthquakes in Hengill volcano. This happens when a water is pumped down into the ground it changes the pressure in the [...]

Liesegang banding in Pennsylvanian sandstones, Bolt Mountain, West Virginia 

Mountain Beltway [16:51:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
While out at the eastern section of NAGT’s annual meeting last weekend in West Virginia, I participated in a field trip to look at the stratigraphy of the Bolt Mountain section of Pottsville Group [...]

The geodetic fingerprints of shallow thrusting in Nepal 

Highly Allochthonous [16:21:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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NASA’s Earth Observatory put out this great image last week, which shows the ground displacement in Nepal resulting from last month’s devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which has claimed at least 8,500 [...]

Krieg, Tod und Hungersnot - Vulkane und die „böse Zeit“ 

Geschichte der Geologie [16:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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Die Kleine Eiszeit war durch ein generelles kühleres Klima gekennzeichnet. Kaltes und nasses Wetter war die Regel, dazu kam es im 17.-18. Jahrhunderts wiederholt zu Extremwetterereignissen, die ihrerseits zu [...]

Physics Lecture - The Basic Rules of Physics - Tail and Dog Part 1 

Ontario-geofish [14:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
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Inspiration As I've said, all pithy comments now go in my g+ collections.  I can't help it if I'm the only one on this.  I've followed every Google Titanic to the bottom, and the same goes for this. [...]

Fashionable remain in the Central Air Heat 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [14:41:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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 ID
  Indonesia only has two seasons, the rainy season and dry season. You are so much easier to collect items that could be used to fashion in two seasons, or choose a suitable collection just for one [...]

El “retorno” del lirón enano a la Península Ibérica 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [14:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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 Quaternary; FR,ES,RU,
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 Nuestro aragosaurero, Juan Rofes (CNRS/MNHN Paris), ha colaborado en un artículo liderado por Naroa García Ibaibarriaga (EHU-UPV) en el que se dan a conocer los primeros restos peninsulares de época [...]

Duri a Morire 

Theropoda [13:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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Per poter occupare consistentemente quasi tutti i ruoli di predatore negli ecosistemi terrestri, e mantenere quel ruolo per oltre 150 milioni di anni, devi essere un animale estremamente tenace, duro a morire. [...]

The timing of the landslide season in Nepal 

The Landslide Blog [10:29:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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 NP
Using my fatal landslide database for Nepal, I've looked at the timing of the landslide season in recent years. The main landslide season starts in late June and runs to early

Leather Living Room Chairs – Tips, Options and Prices 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [10:21:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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 TW
Leather-based living room chairs can be found in both old-fashioned and also fashionable designs. While many of these are made from dark-colored buckskin and dark is a fashionable color which fits effectively [...]

Reevaluando el dimorfismo sexual en Protoceratops 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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El dimorfismo sexual se conoce en muchas especies actuales y extintas en múltiples clados. No obstante, es difícil de reconocer en especies extintas la presencia de dimorfismo puesto que puede estar [...]

Proposal to re-open Kirkland tuff quarry to supply concrete additive stirs up local community 

Arizona Geology [05:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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Meet the Students Studying Trans-Boundary Sustainability Issues in the Middle East 

State of the Planet [22:54:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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 IL,US,
This summer, nine Columbia University students and nine students from Tel Aviv University will take part in a fieldwork course focused on environmental sustainability in the Middle

Neolithische Siedlung im Nil-Delta größer als bisher angenommen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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 DE
Im Nil-Delta lassen sich im größeren Umfang Spuren einer neolithischen Besiedlung der sogenannten Merimde-Kultur nachweisen. Das ist das Ergebnis von Feldforschungen und Archivstudien, die Prof. Dr. [...]

Aad luck 

James’ Empty Blog [21:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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I'm a fan of the convention in maths (at least some subfields), and perhaps other areas of research, of authors being listed alphabetically. It just seems natural and fair, somehow.If I made a habit of [...]

Physics Lecture - The Basic Rules of Physics - Tail and Dog Part 2 

Ontario-geofish [19:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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To continue, in the Earth, with regard to available heat energy, the oceans are the dog, and the atmosphere is the fluff on the end of the tail.  In the atmosphere, water vapour is the dog, and carbon is [...]

The 2015 Joint Photographic Competition 

Geological Society of London blog [18:16:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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 LK,GB
The annual photography competition, organised by a number of our Regional Groups, is now open to all geologists, amateur or professional, living within the postal districts of the Southern Wales, West Midlands [...]

Was Hurricane Sandy the 100-Year Event? 

State of the Planet [17:26:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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Recent research suggests that Sandy may have been much more likely than previously

See us on River Monsters this Monday! 

RMDRC paleo lab [16:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (223 visits) info
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I can't reveal too much until the air date, but I can now share that you'll be able to see Jacob, Mike and myself on the season finale episode of "River Monsters" starring Jeremy Wade!Looking busy in the glory [...]

Se aproximan las Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas en Somosaguas 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [16:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info

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¿Ya os estabais todos preguntando qué pasaba con las Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas en Somosaguas? ¿Preocupados por la falta de noticias? Pues ya están aquí. Este año ha habido algo de financiación por [...]

Help Brian Switek Tell the Stories of Fossil Hunters in the Field 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [16:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 Jurassic; ,US
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...at its core, fieldwork still relies on patience, luck, and a strong back to carry enough water to fight off lingering hangovers. - Brian Switek, from his "Have Allosaurus, Will Travel" Kickstarter campaign [...]

Congratulations to geologists at Wells Cathedral School 

Geology in the West Country [15:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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Well done on representing the South West Regional Group in The Geological Society's National Schools Geology Challenge

STEPS TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [14:43:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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There are several ways we can control pollution. Pollution prevention requires us to reduce the waste generated from working right. Methods of prevention include: Source reduction – for example, reducing [...]

What is Going on with cidaroid sea urchins and their WEIRD spines?? 

Echinoblog [14:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 IR,PR,DE,NL
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Following the last Okeanos Explorer cruise to Puerto Rico, a got a bunch of questions from folks about what the heck was going on with the very odd looking spines of this cidaroid urchin: Cidaris blakei? Some [...]

Died This Day: Stephen Jay Gould 

Palaeoblog [13:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
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image Sept. 10, 1941 - May 20. 2002 Here’s a nice piece on Gould by Henry Lowood from the Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and

Risas, sonrisas y caricaturas en la manifestaciones gráficas paleolíticas 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [11:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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 AR,US
El próximo viernes 22 de mayo tendrá lugar la lectura de la tesis doctoral "Risas, sonrisas y caricaturas en la manifestaciones gráficas paleolíticas" por Alberto Lombo Montañés.La tesis ha sido dirigida [...]

Do Natural Remedies Regarding Acne Go a long way? 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [10:25:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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The fast answer can be: “Yes, they are doing!Inch The particular extended solution… Nicely, you have to look at leftover of the useful post to determine probably the most effective natural remedies [...]

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: In the Pleistocene, a Different Kind of Danger 

Geotripper [09:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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 Quaternary; US
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An Egret and Tule Elk at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge near Los Banos The Great Valley began as a shallow sea (a forearc basin) between the Mesozoic subduction zone and the Ancestral Sierra Nevada [...]

May 20, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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 CO,US
U.S. Female Geoscience Enrollments Level OffAmerican Geosciences Institute Greenland’s Glaciers are Accelerating So Fast, They Have Stretch MarksSlate Smokehole Cave (Kentucky): Speleothems and [...]

Low Recovery Therapy 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [03:02:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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We have now changed out our drilling technology and are making progress towards our final target. The main problem is that we are still relatively [...]
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