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Friday, 26 June 2015
Hallucigenia’s Head
Shikotan Island Tree Ring Chronology
Guest blogger: Xiangyu Li As one of the most militarized islands, because of the dispute between Japan and Russia (the Kuril Islands dispute), Shikotan Island has remained a mystery to the world of tree rings and climate studies until now. Figure 1. Deserted Russian tank on Shikotan island (from http://www.altercorecrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1447443_original.jpg). Shikotan Island directly on the margin betweenExcepcional Biodiversidad de cocodrilos en el Cretácico Inferior de Teruel
WeBlog Aragosaurus [18:34:00]
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Cretaceous; PT,ES
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Finding Pluto
Far away, a beloved dot Arcs through cold and shrouded spaces, Not lonely, as we had once thought, But circled by more rockyValley of the Angry Fingers (& a geo-challenge)
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [15:53:00]
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Permian; US
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Friday fold: Subvertical carbonates
Another Friday, another Friday fold from Howard Allen: Folds in near-vertical beds, north side of Grizzly Creek, Opal Range, Alberta. Beds are Carboniferous carbonates, Mount Head and Etherington formations. [...]Because Work is Ruff: Take Your Dog to Work Day at the Museum
by Victoria Smith, HMNS Executive Assistant Here at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, we love all animals, not just extinct ones. When we heard it was Take Your Dog to Work Day, we thought that [...]
Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: An encrusted bivalve external mold from the Upper Ordovician of Indiana
Wooster Geologists [06:46:59]
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Ordovician; US
I love this kind of fossil, which explains why you’ve seen so many examples on this blog. We are looking at an encrusted external mold of the bivalve Anomalodonta gigantea found in the Waynesville [...]
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Desolation in Hayden Valley
WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [17:51:50]
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The Jurassic Shield
Some dinosaurs are better at hiding than others. There’s no single reason for their edge. Some were rare.What’s up? The Friday links (83)
New reports (on why geology matters), papers (on Nepal and Chile), a video (on Martian debris flows), some tweets and even more. Today is Friday and here are your links! Vertical deformation through a complete [...]Los dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos) en El Viajero, la guía de viajes de El País
GeoTalk: Meet Andi Rudersdorf, winner of I’m a Geoscientist 2015!
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:02]
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DE,MN,CN
Earlier this year we ran the second I’m a Geoscientist event, an online chat-based game show in which school kids vote for their favourite geoscience communicators. In this week’s GeoTalk, Laura Roberts [...]
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June 26, 2015
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