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Wednesday, 24 June 2015

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Guest posting on the Traveling Geologist 

The Lost Geologist [15:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (691 visits) info
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Today I have a guest post about my doctoral research on Bavarian bentonite on the Traveling Geologist blog! Go take a look at their interesting and informative blog. It is host to a large collection of geologist's impressions. Thanks a lot for the

2015 Seed Lecture - Peter Robertson on Liquefaction 

GeoPrac.net [07:49:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (298 visits) info
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 US,CA
Peter K. Robertson, Ph.D., P.Eng, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Technical Advisor, Gregg Drilling & Testing Inc. is the 2015 recipient of the H. Bolton Seed Medal for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, or practice in geotechnical engineering. He presented his keynote lecture at the 2015 IFCEE Conference in San Antonio. The title of the presentation was Evaluation of Soil Liquefaction - How Far Have We Come in the Past 30 Years? [Source: Don't forget to [...]

King Craptor's "Jur-Ass-Kick World" Review 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (252 visits) info
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In the interest of providing another opinion on Jurassic World, which is something the world sorely needs, we at LITC are giving a guest post to one "King Craptor."I liked that movie so much I gave it the [...]

Hallucigenia 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (224 visits) info
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Controversy Over Rafting Trip Through Site of Oso Landslide 

GeoPrac.net [07:48:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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 US
A professional river guide came under fire for a rafting trip through the site of the Oso landslide. Families of the victims issued a cease and desist order, but the trip happened anyway. Opponents of the [...]

Self portrait 

Seismos [22:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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The newspaper up here in Arkansas did a lengthy profile on me.  As part of the process they sent out a self portrait set of questions.  Thought my readers beyond the Ozarks would like to see the [...]

BREAKING: Wyoming Federal Court Delays Implementation Of BLM’s Final Fracking Rule 

Mineral Law Blog [20:46:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (204 visits) info
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 US
On the heels of yesterday’s day-long hearing on several preliminary injunction motions in litigation challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) new final rule regulating hydraulic fracturing [...]

Destroying the Most Persistent Scientific Myth In America 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:40:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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 US
If anyone tells you that the warming we’ve seen over the past century is just a natural swing in Earth’s temperature, they are wrong. Absolutely and totally wrong.This widespread myth is a favorite [...]

Better know The Asterinidae: Familiar & Unfamiliar! 

Echinoblog [15:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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A lot of times on the blog, I talk about weird and often unfamiliar groups of echinoderms. But today I thought I would talk a little bit about a family of sea stars, the Asterinidae, which its most likely that [...]

Mini ice age? 

Geology in the West Country [14:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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Mini Ice Age may be heading our way! Met Office issues warning that temperatures could plummet as Sun enters cooler phase. The last big chill was felt hundreds of years ago when Frost Fairs were held on the [...]

Boden im Juli - Der Boden lebt! 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [19:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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Discover the impact of meteors with Dr. Kring on Asteroid Day 

BEYONDbones [19:00:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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 RU,FR
On Feb. 15, 2013, with no warning, an asteroid 20 meters in diameter and weighing more than the Eiffel Tower plunged into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk at speeds in excess [...]

Studying an active volcano – in pictures 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [17:07:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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 GT,MX,US,CN,GB,,IN
Santiaguito volcano in Guatemala is one of the most active volcanoes in Central America: currently erupting every 45-90 mintues, from its active lava dome Agua de Caliente, while at the same time sending a [...]

New Breccia pipe Maps from the Geologic Survey 

Central Arizona Geology Club [20:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (244 visits) info
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The AZGS just put out a new map that shows a partial listing of the Breccia pipes in Northern Arizona.MapThe high density areas with many black features are the areas that have been mapped in detail. This [...]

You Need To Go For The Next Beach Vacation To Africa 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [05:11:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (215 visits) info
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Africa possibly doesn’t spring in your thoughts when planning for a seaside vacation whilst the first location you’d select, but there are lots of excellent reasons. Cape Area in Africa has up to [...]

Died This Day: William Crawford Williamson - Father of Paleobotany 

Palaeoblog [00:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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Williamson (Nov. 24, 1816-June 23, 1895) was an English naturalist who founded modern paleobotany. His father, John Williamson, was a Yorkshire geologist and the friend of William Smith, the father of English [...]

Desert mayhem – Mad Max “Fury Road” 

Through the Sandglass [18:22:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (211 visits) info
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Our planet’s deserts are sweeping landscapes of variety and diversity, human and otherwise. But if you are looking for imagery of the desert as desolate and threatening, then the new Mad Max movie will do [...]

July 2nd - Global greenhouse event 55 million years ago 

Geology in the West Country [14:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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 Paleogene; GB
The Paleocene - Eocene thermal maximum: a geological insight into what is to come?Dr. Stephen Grimes, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth UniversityJuly 2nd, 7.30p.m. The Paleocene [...]

Escultosaurios IV 

Koprolitos [09:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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New exhibit of historical mining maps opens in Tucson 

Arizona Geology [04:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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 The Arizona Historical Society has opened a new exhibit in Tucson of the map collection of Robert Lenon. Robert Lenon was a surveyor and mining engineer from Patagonia, Arizona. In addition to creating a [...]

June 24, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
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Big Dinosaurs Steered Clear of the TropicsNational Science Foundation Fracking: On Its Way to the UK ?CNBC Non-Stick Frying Pan Coating Contains Tiny Diamonds ?How It’s Made video on Geek.com Mexico [...]

Research Summary: Dreissenid Mussel Impacts On Plankton Dynamics In Western Lake Erie 

Lake Scientist [14:00:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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A Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, USA B Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, [...]

June 27th - Bicentenary celebration of William Smith and local history, Timsbury 

Geology in the West Country [15:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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