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Monday, 29 June 2015

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Smoke From Canada Fires Turns Skies Orange Across the Plains 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:58:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US,CA,KM
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

Monday Geology Picture: The Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, Australia 

Georneys [23:35:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
category→science_technology
 AU
This week’s Monday Geology Picture was taken during my recent vacation in Australia. One day my husband and I drove outside of Sydney to spend some time exploring the Blue Mountains. One of the tourist attractions that we visited is a lovely rock formation known as The Three Sisters. This rock formation was carved (by erosion) out of ~250 million year old

Arizona Geology talks about Jerome Slide movement 

Central Arizona Geology Club [21:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (218 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
The Jerome Jail slide is on the move again.Jerome Jail SlideHarry

Born This Day: Ray Harryhausen 

Palaeoblog [20:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
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Ray would have been 95 today. Visit Ray's official

Died This Day: Thomas Huxley 

Palaeoblog [18:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 GB,,AU
From the UC Berkeley Page: 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 [...]

Link to posts from Wooster Geologists in the United Kingdom in June 2015 

Wooster Geologists [17:52:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info

 GB
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 [...]

Beijing quadrupled in size in a decade, new study finds 

AGU Meetings [16:50:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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 CN
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 [...]

The Otherworldly and Elusive Life Beneath Antarctica’s Ice 

State of the Planet [16:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
category→science_technology
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 [...]

Photo of the Week # 41 

GeoSphere [14:45:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
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... [[ This [...]

Last day of fieldwork in England: A working quarry and another great unconformity 

Wooster Geologists [12:26:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (707 visits) info
category→business
 GB
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 [...]

National Museum Wales and its new dinosaur 

Wooster Geologists [12:25:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (219 visits) info
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 GB
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 [...]

Wooster Geologist in Wales 

Wooster Geologists [12:23:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
category→sports
 GB,US
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 [...]

A Day in Stromness 

Wooster Geologists [12:21:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
category→recreation
 GB
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 [...]

Exploring Caithness, Scotland 

Wooster Geologists [12:19:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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 GB,US
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, [...]

Arrogance, elitism, paternalism 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [10:56:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
category→recreation
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 [...]

Keonehelelei - Footprints Ash Volcanoes National Park 

Adventures in the world of Geology [09:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
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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 [...]

Los mundos prehistóricos de Richard Corben 

Koprolitos [09:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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 ES,US
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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 [...]

June 29, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
category→recreation
 US,,MX
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 [...]

Bad News for Hollywood 

Rosetta Stones [06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
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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... -- [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 6/29-7/5 

BEYONDbones [03:00:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
category→recreation
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 [...]

The World’s Beaches (Book Review) 

Terra Central [01:58:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
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 [...]

Ein paar Gedanken zur Gehaltssituation in den Geobüros 

Mente et Malleo [21:35:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 US,AT
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 [...]

Moab dinosaur tracks found vandalized 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:57:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
ksl.com Authorities are looking for a vandal after a set of dinosaur tracks northeast of Moab, Utah was found filled with plaster. READ

Make your own rain 

Earth Learning Idea [18:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (210 visits) info
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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 [...]

First images from recently launched Sentinel 2 satellite 

Digital Geography [17:08:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
category→science_technology
 GF
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 [...]

Calvert Marine Museum ~ Striking A Balance 

Fossils and Other Living Things [16:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Neogene; US,GB
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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, [...]

Too High and Too Steep – Book Jacket 

New Stories in Stone [16:17:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
category→recreation
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 [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Sunset over the Labrador Sea 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:52:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
category→recreation
 Quaternary,Ordovician; GL,US,CN,SE,CA,DK,
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 Geologist in England (again) 

Wooster Geologists [12:25:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (600 visits) info
category→recreation
 Jurassic; GB,US
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 [...]

A great unconformity in South Wales 

Wooster Geologists [12:24:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (654 visits) info
category→recreation
 Carboniferous; GB,US
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 [...]

Another long train journey through Great Britain 

Wooster Geologists [12:22:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
category→recreation
 GB
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 [...]

Neolithic Orkney 

Wooster Geologists [12:20:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info
category→science_technology
 GB,US
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 [...]

Wooster Geologist in Scotland 

Wooster Geologists [12:18:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
category→recreation
 CA,GB,US,VN
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 [...]

TERPRO business meeting at the INQUA2015 congress in Nagoya 

Paleoseismicity [10:54:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
category→science_technology
 JP
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 [...]

Daning River landslide: a video that is purported to show the failure event 

The Landslide Blog [09:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
category→recreation
 CN
CCTV has uploaded a video onto Youtube that reportedly shows the Daning River landslide in China last week as failure

Trematospira multistriata brachiopod from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (249 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Devonian; US
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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 [...]

Home From the Back of Beyond: Some Images of Strange and Wonderful Places 

Geotripper [07:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
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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 [...]

Jerome's Sliding Jail landslide is moving 

Arizona Geology [03:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (217 visits) info
category→business
 PH
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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 [...]

Art in the Anthropocene 

Friends of the Pleistocene [02:05:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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, [...]
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