Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:58:09]
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Raging wildfires in Western Canada have spread smoke over much of the northern/central U.S. this evening. The plume of smoke now extends over 2000 km, and it will likely move into the Eastern U.S. over the next few days, with the summer blue skies turning a milky white. You can see what the smoke looks like from Fargo, ND here. Very dry conditions coupled with recent extreme heat have caused
Central Arizona Geology Club [21:48:00]
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The Jerome Jail slide is on the move again.Jerome Jail SlideHarry
Ray would have been 95 today.
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Huxley (May, 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895) was born in Ealing, near London, the seventh of eight children in a family that was none too affluent. At 21, Huxley signed on as assistant [...]
I spent 25 days in England, Scotland and Wales this month, 12 of them with these two happy Senior Independent Study students, Mae Kemsley (’16) and Meredith Mann (’16) — dubbed “Team [...]
A new study shows that Beijing quadrupled in physical extent between 2000 and 2009. The new buildings alone -- not including the impacts of additional city dwellers and their cars -- increased heat and changed [...]
While renowned for the penguins, Antarctica is perhaps equally well known for what it doesn’t have: basically, anything else. But scientist Steven Chown says the view that the icy continent lacks life is [...]
I am furiously writing my Ph.D thesis at the moment. I am close to submitting. I swear! Although, everyone I know says I sound like a broken record when I say this. Anyway, while I have been doing...
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BRISTOL, ENGLAND (June 26, 2015) — Tim Palmer has a professional interest in building stones, and a passion for sorting out their characteristics and historical uses. He thus has many contacts in the [...]
BRIDGEND, WALES (June 25, 2015) — On our last day in Wales, Tim had an errand at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff. We took the opportunity to visit their new dinosaur exhibit with the skeleton that [...]
BRIDGEND, WALES (June 23, 2015) — My train journey yesterday was successful. It was close, but I made the four tight connections and arrived in Aberystwyth, Wales, from Thurso, Scotland, on schedule. It [...]
STROMNESS, SCOTLAND (June 21, 2015) — I intended to explore the region around Stromness today as I waited for the late afternoon ferry to Thurso, but it rained continuously. Since I can’t afford to [...]
THURSO, SCOTLAND (June 19, 2015) — After meeting in the morning for our 2015 Larwood Symposium, most of the participants then went on a field trip in the region around Thurso in the Caithness district, [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [10:56:19]
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I just read this on The Scholarly Kitchen and nearly fell out of my seat: In an era with more access given to less qualified people (laypeople and an increasingly unqualified blogging corps presenting [...]
Adventures in the world of Geology [09:25:00]
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This weekend I did a little hike out in the Ka'u Desert in Volcanoes National Park and I thought I would share some photos. But first, a map courtesy of bigislandhikesMore information about the footprints ash [...]
Aunque la espectacular sensualidad y la absoluta desinhibición de los dibujos de Richard Corben (1940) bastarían para hacerle destacar en las librerías, su afán por dotarles de una atmósfera a un tiempo [...]
Visitor Finds 8.5 Carat Diamond at Arkansas ParkCNN The Only Diamond Mine in the World Where You Can Be the MinerGeology.com Diamond Mines in the United StatesGeology.com World Class Cave Diving in [...]
So, you know those disaster movies where volcanoes explode like Mount St. Helens, but also spew fountains of really runny lava like Kilauea on laxatives?
I have really bad news for them, courtesy of...
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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! Lecture – Climate And The Demise Of Maya Civilization By [...]
For your summer reading edification, this is a wonderful book to take to the beach. Or, if you can’t make the trip, it’s a vicarious journey to beaches around the globe, and an invitation to [...]
Der BDG hat am 10. Juni 2015 die Ergebnisse seiner Gehaltsumfrage veröffentlicht. Mit, wie ich finde, erschütternden Ergebnissen. Insgesamt haben sich 443 Mitglieder des BDG an der anonymen Umfrage [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:57:07]
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ksl.com Authorities are looking for a vandal after a set of dinosaur tracks northeast of Moab, Utah was found filled with plaster. READ
Have you tried the ELI 'Mini-world water cycle; a water cycle demonstration model in a box'?
Make a sandy ‘beach’ in the box and add the shallow ‘sea’. Switch on the lamp (‘Sun’) and wait for a [...]
The earth observation satellite Sentinel-2 with Sentinel-2A and Sentinel 2B was launched on July 23rd 2015 from space centre Kourou in French Guiana. The mission is part of the Copernicus mission by ESA. The [...]
Fossils and Other Living Things [16:34:00]
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I recently visited the Calvert Marine Museum (CMM) in Solomons, Maryland, and the word that I’ve been contemplating since that visit is balance, in various of its manifestations.At a fundamental level, [...]
Wow, just got to see the book jacket for my new book, Too High and Too Steep. Pretty exciting. Thanks kindly to the UW Press for a fabulous design and for all of their support. The book will be out in [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:52:32]
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Ruby skies and calm waters are the backdrop for this week’s Imaggeo image – one of the ten finalist images in this year’s EGU Photo contest. “I took the picture while on a scientific cruise in West [...]
Wooster Geologists [12:25:30]
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BRISTOL, ENGLAND (June 25, 2015) — Our little geological exploration of southern Britain now passes into England. Tim Palmer and I crossed the River Severn and drove to the Cotswolds to examine old [...]
Wooster Geologists [12:24:17]
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BRIDGEND, WALES (June 24, 2015) — Today Tim Palmer and I visited a famous unconformable rock plane in South Wales. I last saw it thirty years ago, when I knew a lot less about eroded, bored and encrusted [...]
THURSO, SCOTLAND (June 22, 2015) — Back to the trains today as I leave for a long journey south through Scotland and central England and then west to Aberystwyth, Wales, to spend some quality field time [...]
Wooster Geologists [12:20:21]
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STROMNESS, SCOTLAND (June 20, 2015) — After our last sessions of talks in the 2015 Larwood Symposium, we had a guided tour of some spectacular Neolithic sites on the island of Mainland in Orkney. (I [...]
THURSO, SCOTLAND (June 18, 2015) — My long train trip from Scarborough was successful yesterday. I arrived in the dark (or what passes for darkness this far north) and had a long walk from the train [...]
The INQUA 2015 congress in Nagoya will not only be the place to catch up with latest science news, but also to elect new commissions and project leaders and to plan and co-ordinate the ongoing activities for [...]
CCTV has uploaded a video onto Youtube that reportedly shows the Daning River landslide in China last week as failure
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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I'm going to kick off a series of posts that all feature fossils from the Kalkberg formation of New York with this specimen of Trematospira multistriata. It is a rounded, rectangular shaped shell with both [...]
Thunderstorm near Bandelier National Monument
No, it's not a volcanic eruption, but with the light show that followed that evening, it might as well have been. We were in the high desert of New Mexico at [...]
In the 1930s a landslide in the center of the city of Jerome is credited with moving the jail house hundreds of feet downslope. In fact, the building was moved to get it on more stable ground. But this [...]
Cover Art, © Mary Mattingly, House and Universe, 2013 We are pleased to announce the release of a book that we’ve been anticipating — Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, [...]