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Thursday, 25 June 2015

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Älteste Schildkröte der Welt in Deutschland entdeckt 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (208 visits) info
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 DE
     Ein neues Missing Link klärt den Ursprung der Schildkröten. Der Sensationsfund einer 240 Mio. Jahre alten Ur-Schildkröte in Baden-Württemberg (Vellberg) schließt eine weltweite Fundlücke. Stuttgart. Am Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart haben Forscher eine international bedeutende Entdeckung gemacht. Bei Grabungen des Museums in Vellberg (Baden-Württemberg)

Glacial Earthquakes May Help Forecast Sea-Level Rise 

State of the Planet [20:21:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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 GL
It is only recently that scientists learned of the existence of glacial earthquakes–seismic rumblings produced as massive ice chunks fall off the fronts of advancing glaciers into the ocean. In Greenland, where they have been extensively measured, such quakes have grown sevenfold over the last two decades and they are advancing northward. This suggests that ice loss is increasing

Il pigostilo di Balaur, il piede di Aurornis e l'occhio di David Peters 

Theropoda [19:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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 US,IN
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Inizialmente, avevo pensato ad una trilogia di post su questo tema, ma penso che uno, un po' corposo, basti ed avanzi. Finalmente, si fa per dire, anche David Peters sbarca su Theropoda! Per quelli di voi [...]

Red Fleet State Park – Good 4 Utah Road Tour 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:41:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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 US
good4utah.com Good 4 Utah’s Adam Carroll visited Red Fleet State Park, just seven miles north of Vernal in Uintah County. Called a “mini Lake Powell” by locals, the park’s lake winds [...]

New report indicates massive increase in uranium potential in northwest Arizona 

Arizona Geology [18:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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On Jurassic World and real 'raptors': Velociraptor, Deinonychus and Achillobator 

markwitton.com blog [15:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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 Cretaceous,Jurassic; US,MN
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The online palaeontological community has no shortage of words on the recently released Jurassic World movie – most of them concerning the deplorable disregard for the last two decades of dinosaur science. [...]

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION EFFORTS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [14:49:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION EFFORTS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Preserving the environment is a necessity that can not be postponed again and not just the responsibility of the government or the leader of any [...]

The Finback and the Shark: A Process Blog 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [14:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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 Permian; KR,US,AR
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I recently took a trip up to Seymour, Texas, in order to report on an intermittent, ongoing fossil dig happening up on the famous Early Permian deposits on the Craddock Ranch. My main source (and, admittedly, [...]

Wha daur say mass in ma lug? 

James’ Empty Blog [13:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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All this fawning over the pope leaves me rather depressed. So, maybe he happened to say something that was not completely stupid and backward. I suppose perhaps if you are feeling particularly optimistic, [...]

Daning River: a landslide-induced tsunami accident on a tributary of the Yangtze 

The Landslide Blog [09:18:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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 CN
A landslide on the Daning River in China yesterday triggered a series of tsunami waves that sank 13 vessels, mostly fishing

June 25, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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 US,CN
Breccia Pipes and Collapse Features on the Colorado Plateau, Northwestern ArizonaSome contain high-grade uranium ore in the Grand Canyon areaArizona Geological Survey NASA Mission to Saturn’s Moon, [...]

How To Detect A Secret Nuclear Test 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [19:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (216 visits) info
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Ist Ihr AckerFit? – Die 6 Schritte der Bodengefügeansprache 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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Seattle Map 14 – 1931 

New Stories in Stone [16:59:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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 US
Recently I came across an unusual map of Seattle–Frank McCaffrey’s New Dogwood Map of Seattle, published in 1931. The map is a cartoon-style with curious depictions of monuments and locations in [...]

Great Salt Lake May Influence Ozone Levels Nearby 

Lake Scientist [15:10:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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Utah’s Great Salt Lake covers an area around 1,700 square miles, making it the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. That expansiveness, however, is offset by the relatively shallow[...] The post [...]

7 Easy Tips to Eliminate Toxins In The Body 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [14:48:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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7 Easy Tips to Eliminate Toxins In The Body Various healthy lifestyle and healthy food consumption can improve the health of one’s body, but from a variety of unhealthy lifestyles and the various foods [...]

A Watering Hole Bites the Dust: Water Hole #1 

Looking for Detachment [13:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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 US
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Water Hole #1 in Golconda, Nevada — a bar made famous in the late 1970s by an industrious pig, Waterhole Ike — closed sometime within the last two to three years, before I had a chance to stop by and check [...]

Mr Mystic y la tabla sagrada de hace un millón de años 

Koprolitos [09:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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"¡Sooooooooooo bisho!"Mr Mystic, creación de Will Eisner que debutó en el suplemento The Spirit del 2 de junio de 1940, era el nombre artístico de un tal Ken que regresó del Tíbet con un "tatuaje arcano" [...]

Pholadella radiata pelecypod from the Ludlowville formation of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (202 visits) info
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 Devonian; RU,US,IN
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The diversity of pelecypods that are found within the Devonian aged (Givetian stage) Moscow formation is pretty amazing. At a time when brachiopods were still somewhat dominant, pelecypods had become a strong [...]

How I Wish I'd Known It Was Erupting At the Time... 

Rosetta Stones [00:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
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Now, a lot of you lately have been not-so-subtly nudging at me to get a book out about Mount St. Helens. So I have created a not-so-subtle meme for you. You can download it, print it, and hang it up... -- [...]
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