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Monday, 25 May 2015

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Necesidades especiales y Geología en Somosaguas 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [23:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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Ya hemos superado el ecuador de la campaña de excavación en los yacimientos paleontológicos del Mioceno medio de Somosaguas. La meteorología nos es favorable, con un sol magnífico y unas temperaturas envidiables; esta es sin duda alguna, la campaña en la que hemos disfrutado de mejores condiciones de excavación. Ni una sola gota de lluvia ha caído en lo que llevamos de campaña, ni parece

Physics - High Energy Part 3 

Ontario-geofish [20:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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El Nino - the dam busts For recorded history, we've had a benign pattern.  That strong equatorial Pacific current goes slamming into the islands (Philippines, and such), jamming up warm water.  Then the Sun bakes this stagnant mass, and it becomes super hot.  After 7 years, it's had enough, and something triggers a water earthquake, perhaps we could call it a waterquake, but that's sounds

Northern Arizona field trip guide published from AEG national meeting 

Arizona Geology [18:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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Imaggeo on Mondays: A fold belt within a grain 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [18:28:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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Tiny crinkly folds form the main basis of today’s Imaggeo on Mondays. Folding can occur on a number of scales; studying folds at all scales can reveal critical information about how rocks behave when they [...]

Physics - High Energy Part 2 

Ontario-geofish [17:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (185 visits) info
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The highest energy thing we have going here is the rotation of the Earth, followed by the radiation heat deep in the Mantle.  I don't know how many atomic bombs they are, or how many seconds of the Sun, but [...]

ISPRA volume “Earthquake Environmental Effect for seismic hazard assessment: the ESI intensity scale and the EEE Catalogue” 

paleoseismicity.org [13:04:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (597 visits) info
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Earthquake Environmental Effects (EEE) have proven to be valuable for describing past earthquakes and their geological imprints. The ESI2007 is a relatively new intensity scale dedicated to such effects, but [...]

Life on the IIT Madras Campus 

Water and Megacities [10:47:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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The IIT Madras is one of the leading universities in India and one of the local cooperation partners of the University of RWTH Aachen. Due to this cooperation, the IIT Madras gave me opportunity to stay at the [...]

PREHISTOGHANA 

Koprolitos [09:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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En lugar de importar pósters de películas extranjeras, los dueños de los cines ambulantes de Ghana encargan a artistas locales sus propias versiones pintadas a mano. Con la cartelería de este país del [...]

May 25, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info
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 CN,MZ,NP,US
Field Gemology: Ruby Discovery in MozambiqueGemological Institute of America Low-Temperature Heat Treatment of Mozambique RubyGemological Institute of America Ruby and Sapphire: The Gems of CorundumGeology.com [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 5/25-5/31 

BEYONDbones [03:00:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 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 – Sustainable Seas: The Vision, The Reality [...]

Slope failure 

Earth Learning Idea [18:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
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The new ELI today is 'Failing slopes; modelling how rock cliffs and slopes can collapse   This activity encourages pupils to investigate the factors which affect the angle of slope at which materials fail [...]

Vernal - Utah's Dinosaur Land 

Palaeoblog [17:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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From Vintage Dinosaur

Physics - High Energy Part 1 

Ontario-geofish [15:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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I'm going to visit my son in California and I have two things on my mind - earthquakes and drought.  Both are the result of high-energy processes in our good old Earth. The first is drought.  California has [...]

Projecto PaleoAngola faz 10 anos 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [12:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; AO,US,FR,KR,NL,UM,,PT,IN
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O Projecto PaleoAngola faz 10 anos e precisamente hoje marca-se os 10 anos da descoberta do Angolatitan adamastor, o primeiro dinossauro de Angola, aos 25 de Maio de 2005, que coincidentemente é o dia de [...]

Anatomy of a Cinder Cone Roadcut in the Land of Cochise and Its Tale of Farallon Plate Geo-Gymnastics - Part I 

Written In Stone...seen through my lens [10:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (683 visits) info
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 Quaternary,Neogene,Paleogene; GB,MX,US,KM,GR,IS,IR,ES,CH,TH,,HK,IN
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"Nothing in geology makes sense except in terms of plate tectonic theory."Lynn S. Fichter, Ph.D., Department of Geology, James Madison UniversityIn spite of their global ubiquity and profusion, cinder [...]

The World's Rarest Fish is Where? The Most Restricted Vertebrate Habitat on Earth 

Geotripper [09:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (655 visits) info
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There is a lonely nondescript mountain of limestone in the barren desert east of Death Valley National Park. There is a hole at the base of the slope, the entrance to a cavern. Lurking within are prisoners, [...]

It Is Simpler to Develop a Realistic Fairy Garden When You Are Familiar With Mini Scales 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [05:11:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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The attraction to miniature gardening or fairy gardens is that ages that can create a garden fit to their way of life as well as environments. From small terrarium yards to large-scale landscape yards, [...]

Texas/Oklahoma flooding, record rains, Louis Creek Dam evacuation 

Geology in Motion [02:36:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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The jet stream patterns that have set up the currentwet situation in Texas. From Weather.com hereon May 24.Over 350 homes in Hays County, Texas, are gone, and more than 1000 are damaged according to reports [...]
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