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Monday, 01 June 2015

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Alert level for Bárðarbunga volcano lowered 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:58:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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 US
Today (1-June-2015) the alert level around Bárðarbunga volcano was lowered to uncertainty level from danger level. This means there are no longer any travel restrictions in the area. Besides normal spring closure in the highlands due to the … Continue reading

Unforced Variations: June 2015 

Real Climate [20:08:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
This month’s open thread. Some interesting trends in ocean heat content, surface temperatures, multiple oddly reported papers (which are often linked to ambiguous press releases…) etc. But at least we aren’t working in political

Climate Negotiations as a Realistic Fiction 

State of the Planet [18:29:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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In addition to what might be expected of a climate negotiations simulation, Make it Work enlisted the creative help of artists, actors and dancers to use stage work and meditative methods to improve the [...]

The Making of California’s Mini-Mammoths 

Laelaps [16:00:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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Over 80,000 years ago, somewhere on a southern California beach, a mammoth wanders across the sand. The beast

Elements Magazine: The Lost Geologist in the Students Research Spotlight 

The Lost Geologist [15:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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The June issue of Elements magazine appeared online today. All contributing geoscience societies have a Society News Section. In June, I have the great pleasure of being one of three students portrayed in the [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Scales of fluvial dissection 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (607 visits) info
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 NO,AU,IR,KE,CN,KM,IQ,RU,TR,
High peaks, winding river channels and a barren landscape all feature in today’s Imaggeo on Mondays image, brought to you by Katja Laute, a geomorphologist from Norway.  This photo was taken from an [...]

Buenos tiempos para los hupehsuquios 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [11:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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Los primeros representantes de Hupehsuchia se descubrieron en los años 50, pero es curioso que hasta hace relativamente poco no tuviéramos mucha idea de lo que eran estos animales. Hoy en día, sin embargo, [...]

Metacanthina issoumourensis trilobite from Morocco 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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 Devonian; MA
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I think this Trilobite is a Metacanthina issoumourensis. The key identifier, for me, is the little horn on the back of the cephalon (otherwise known as an occipital spine). The specimen is missing the genal [...]

Something to Show your Neighbor Who Thinks Climate Change is a Hoax 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:40:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (635 visits) info
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One of the most common claims (by those who got their education about atmospheric physics staring at a computer screen in the basement) is that the increase in Antarctic Sea ice proves the planet is not [...]

Los cráneos urbanos de Evan Hobart 

Koprolitos [00:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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Evan Hobart es un artista norteamericano que inició su pasión por la escultura de niño, en el San Geronimo Valley de West Marin (California, Estados Unidos). Posteriormente, en 2004, comenzó sus estudios [...]

Apartment Building in China Collapses After Landslide 

GeoPrac.net [00:38:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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 CN
A nine story apartment building in Guiyang city, China collapsed last week following heavy rains. Officials noted a landslide or mudslides were the apparent cause. There were as many as 16 people missing as [...]

Popular ELI in May - The space within - the porosity of rocks 

Earth Learning Idea [16:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (643 visits) info
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A popular Earthlearningidea in May was "The space within - the porosity of rocks; investigating the amount of pore space between the 'grains' of a model 'rock'" Underground water supplies and [...]

Nepal Earthquakes – Latest Reading 

Geology for Global Development [15:59:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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 NP
Whilst geologists are often trained in the technical aspects of natural hazards, our courses are often devoid of information on what causes disasters, how we can better avoid them and effective disaster [...]

The Beginning of an El Niño Trip: North-Central and Western Nevada 

Looking for Detachment [13:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (631 visits) info
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An El Niño has supposedly set in (starting when, exactly, I'm not sure). And if precipitation continues to be anything like it has been during the last several weeks, I hope it's here for the the long haul, [...]

‘San Andreas’ – a crack in the edge of credibility 

Geological Society of London blog [11:40:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (599 visits) info
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Geoscientist Editor Ted Nield reviews the latest geology-related cinema release. A divorced search and rescue helicopter pilot (Ray, played by Dwayne Johnson) goes in search of his daughter in earthquake-hit [...]

Whatever happened to “Pelorosaurus” becklesii? 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:37:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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 GB
It’s an oddity that in eight years of SV-POW!, we’ve never written about one of the best of all the Wealden-formation sauropod specimens: the forelimb and associated skin impression NHMUK R1870 [...]

June 1, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info
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 CA,US,AE
United Arab Emirates Oil and Gas ReportEnergy Information Administration Alberta Does Not Need the Keystone XL PipelineMining.com EPA Expands Protections of Clean Water ActLos Angeles Times Dozens of Fires in [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 6/1-6/7 

BEYONDbones [03:00:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 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!   Xplorations Summer Science Adventures Begin Monday, June [...]

Residential Foundation Investigation Standards 

GeoPrac.net [00:49:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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Bob Brown with Arizona Foundation Repair, a foundation repair contractor, has a nice blog post about the need for better standards for forensic investigations for residential foundation investigations. He [...]

Uncovering a Soil Mystery Using Micromorphology and Petrography 

Terra Central [00:05:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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This is the second in a series (link to 1st) about the genesis of the Success soil, which was the topic of my master’s research. This part has to do with using petrography to identify soil constituents [...]
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