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Thursday, 04 June 2015

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Slow Down, What Slow Down? 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:09:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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I’ve chatted before with Tom Karl about how difficult it is to measure the planet’s temperature. Karl,who is the head of the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (Formerly known as the Nat. Climate Data Center) is probably one of the top five experts on this anywhere, and today he published a major paper in Science that is already getting world-wide attention from the main stream press. There is good

Get Nepal Working Again 

Ontario-geofish [21:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
category→business
 NP
Get Nepal working again with shipping container houses certified by The Fish.  They should be welded onto deep screw piles, and it's good to have a basement in the mountains for boulders.  They can have this sign: There is a one in a million chance that we will experience a great earthquake while you are here.  This is the place to survive it.  It has been certified by The Wacky Harold.

An unusual theropod frontal from the Upper Cretaceous of north Patagonia 

Palaeoblog [21:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; CL
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An unusual theropod frontal from the Upper Cretaceous of north Patagonia. 2015. Alcheringa. Carabajal & Coria Abstract: We report an isolated left frontal (MCF-PVPH 320) corresponding to a medium-sized [...]

Late Cretaceous Hellboy 

Palaeoblog [20:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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Image by Julius Csotonyi Welcome Regaliceratops to the pantheon of horned-dinosaurs. Read about it in the Globe and

NOAA temperature record updates and the ‘hiatus’ 

Real Climate [20:00:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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In a new paper in Science Express, describe the impacts of two significant updates to the NOAA NCEI (née NCDC) global temperature series. The two updates are: 1) the adoption of for the ocean temperatures [...]

Wyoming, Colorado Seek To Halt BLM’s Fracking Regulations; Environmental Groups Intervene 

Mineral Law Blog [19:00:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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 US
On the heels of a preliminary injunction motion filed in the action by two industry groups challenging the federal Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final rule regulating hydraulic fracturing on public [...]

Newly-Named Horned Dinosaur was a Copycat 

Laelaps [18:00:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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 Cretaceous
Everyone knows Triceratops. The herbivore’s a Cretaceous celebrity. Over the past ten years, however, old “three horned face”

How Supraglacial Greenland Lakes Suddenly Vanish 

Lake Scientist [16:46:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 US,GL
Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington have discovered that the icy bottoms of supraglacial lakes in Greenland can crack open suddenly to drain them, [...]

The Histomap of Evolution (1931) 

Palaeoblog [15:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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See the large, readable version via Open

What thrusting does to porous sandstones (surprisingly little) 

Structural Geology Blog [12:07:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
To many of us, thrust nappes and thrusting are things related to metamorphic rocks or shale-limestone sequences in places such as the Alps, the Caledonides or the Canadian Rockies, while rifts are more [...]

An Online Course Every High School Science Student Should Take 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [08:03:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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 AU
John Cook at the University of Queensland (along with others) has produced a very good course about climate change and its denial. He also covers the consensus among scientists, and why the claims by the [...]

What Have I been doing in South Africa?? 

Echinoblog [03:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (254 visits) info
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Greetings to everyone from Cape Town where I've been for the last two weeks! One more left to go! Sorry if I've been a bit quiet and off Twitter. What have I been up to? What have I been learning? 1. [...]

Learning to Compromise 

State of the Planet [00:57:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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After countless hours of workshopping, brainstorming, writing, and rewriting, I thought that a consensus between parties would not be so far off. However, with 220 opinions boiled down into 42 delegations, it [...]

"Steam plume" from Sunset Crater is likely just smoke from forest fire 

Arizona Geology [20:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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[jules' pics] Our garden 

James’ Empty Blog [20:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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Almost everything in our garden is doing flowering at the moment. It is the British way, to bloom in May and June and hibernate the rest of the year. -- Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at [...]

Free Download- Cartosat 1 India 1 Arc Sec Digital Elevation Model 

Reporting on a Revolution [19:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info
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 IN
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I've been writing periodic updates on Bhuvan and have been critical about some of its features before. Today I sing its praise. Bhuvan is the Indian Space Research Organization's web mapping portal. It was  [...]

Insektenfossilien aus dem Rotliegenden Thüringens , Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2015, 17:30 Uhr 

Fachgruppe Mineralogie & Geologie Dresden [18:59:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (54 visits) info
Der Referent Stephan Brauner ist Spezialist für

OpenCon 2015 Applications are Open! 

Green Tea and Velociraptors [17:07:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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 BE,US
See this post about Open Con 2014 for more information Applications to attend OpenCon 2015 on November 14-16 in Brussels, Belgium are now open! The application is available on the OpenCon website at [...]

Ganadores del XII Concurso de Postales del Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos) 

Tierra de Dinosaurios [15:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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 ES
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<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]-->El Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes ha organizado la duodécima edición del Concurso de Ilustraciones para Postales del Museo de Dinosaurios. El [...]

Recalibrating the First Eukaryotes 

Palaeoblog [14:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (220 visits) info
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Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks. 2015. PNAS Contaminated samples have evidently created some confusion in the timetable of life. On the basis of ultra-clean analyses, an [...]

June 4, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 CA,ZA,
Arctic Ocean Seafloor Features MapGeology.com Oil and Natural Gas Basins of the Arctic OceanGeology.com A Shortage of Steam Coal in South Africa ?Mining.com Conoco Starts Steam Injection at Alberta Oil Sands [...]

"Pyrite Is Not Born to Fool" 

Rosetta Stones [06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info
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When last we spoke on the subject of fool's gold, I introduced you to several famous people who'd mistaken it for real gold. Imagine how they'd feel if we yanked them out of their respective eras and... -- [...]

Abertas Inscrições para Mestrado em Paleontologia 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [01:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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 ES,PT
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Abertas as inscrições para o MESTRADO EM PALEONTOLOGIA. Para candidatos estrangeiros, foi recentemente criado o estatuto de "ESTUDANTE INTERNACIONAL", ao abrigo do qual estudantes não portugueses poderão [...]
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