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Thursday, 23 July 2015

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Stuck – in a Land of Flat Plants 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [16:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (231 visits) info
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 AU,US,GB
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Plant specimens waiting to be shelved for posterity.Lucy Corrander says it’s time for the next stuck-foot gathering already!  I was caught by surprise, but I knew I would be “stuck” in the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, with my camera, so I made it a dual-purpose visit.  I wasn’t “stuck” as in “be or remain in a specified place or location, typically one perceived as tedious or unpleasant” (New Oxford American Dictionary).  I like being in the herbarium.  Rather I [...]

Asylsuchende: Eingeschränkter Zugang zu medizinischer Versorgung ist teurer als die Regelversorgung 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [09:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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 UM
     Auswertung von 1994 bis 2013: Pro-Kopf-Ausgaben bei eingeschränktem Zugang zum Gesundheitssystem um circa 40 Prozent höher als bei Asylsuchenden mit medizinischer Regelversorgung / Wissenschaftler des Universitätsklinikums Heidelberg und der Universität Bielefeld veröffentlichen in der internationalen Fachzeitschrift PLOS ONE Asylsuchende haben in Deutschland nur

Mesodouvillina varistriata brachiopod from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (218 visits) info
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 Devonian; DE,US
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I recognized today's fossil very quickly due to it's similarity to specimens I have collected from the Givetian stage of the Devonian. This is Mesodouvillina varistriata from the Kalkberg formation of New [...]

Variadito XII 

Koprolitos [09:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
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Kepler spots potentially habitable planet like our Earth 

Geology in Motion [21:03:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (204 visits) info
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Temperature of the Earth under presentconditions with a solar flux of 341 W/m2,and just before the runaway greenhouse is triggeredfor a mean solar flux of 375 W/m2.From the Leconte et al. article referenced in [...]

A year of Tyrannosaurus rex artworks 

markwitton.com blog [19:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US,GB
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A minor milestone was reached this week at my print store - there's now 50 different bits of art in there. Given that I only started selling prints less than a year ago, I'm happy to see some substantial [...]

Continued risk of landslide in Ketilbjörg cliff in Skagafirði (North-West Iceland) 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [01:04:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (185 visits) info
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 IS
There is now a increased risk of landslide in Ketilbjörg cliff. The area that is about to fall of is extremely dangerous, tourist have been seen going out on the part of the cliff that is about to … [...]

July 23, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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Large Collection of Historic Mining Documents, Maps and Photos ReleasedArizona Geological Survey Business Risks Facing Mining and Metals ProjectsErnst & Young Only Permanent Supply Cuts Can Lift Metal [...]

Spontaneous Clumping of Tropical Clouds 

State of the Planet [23:41:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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If you take a look at nearly any satellite image of clouds in the tropics, you’ll notice that the clouds tend to be organized into clusters. One specific type of cloud organization called [...]

Impact Partnerships, with Return on Investment 

State of the Planet [14:46:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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Philanthropy has evolved dramatically in recent years, changing the way individuals, organizations and foundations support the causes that concern them most. One manifestation of this evolution includes an [...]

Ambunti, Papua New Guinea: an interesting riverbank landslide 

The Landslide Blog [08:35:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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 PG
On Saturday a landslide developed on a riverbank in Ambunti, Papua New Guinea, displacing 16 families. Reports that this is a sinkhole are probably

Torrential downpour  

EXPEDITION LIVE! [02:40:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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We took a hammering in camp last night. Heavy rains created a river through camp and some beautiful rainbows.    Filed under:

Stay Tuned for SUGAR 2!! 

SUGAR [03:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (214 visits) info
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In just a few short weeks a mass of students and scientists will descend on southern Georgia with work boots and sunscreen in hand to take part in the second portion of the SUGAR active source experiment. [...]

Strange Skies over the Great Valley Today 

Geotripper [09:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (208 visits) info
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Tell me this isn't one of the stranger looking skies you've ever seen. I would have been rather freaked seeing this without having known the origin. It's not clouds. We were driving home after our latest [...]

Geosonnet 30 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [16:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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The periodic dinner tables host A smorgasbord of elemental food. Without the nutrient that’s needed most, The spread of life’s substantially subdued. When goethite settled out of ancient seas The [...]

Bryce Canyon announces 6th annual Geology Festival on July 31 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:42:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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 US
kcsg.com Have you ever seen a living dinosaur? You might be surprised. If dinosaurs were ‘cold-blooded’ would you expect to find a dinosaur skeleton in Antarctica? Have you ever wondered how the [...]

Why Using El Nino to Forecast the Winter is Risky 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:09:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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The image above shows how very strong the developing El Nino in the Pacific, is compared to the 1997 event (which is the strongest on record). Since El Nino events usually peak in the later fall/winter, it [...]

Quale sarebbe oggi l'intelligenza dei dinosauri se non si fossero estinti? 

Theropoda [18:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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Il "Dinosauroide" di Russell è la più famosa risposta alla domanda su quale potrebbe essere oggi la capacità intellettiva dei dinosauri se non si fossero estinti alla fine del Mesozoico. Il Dinosauroide di [...]

A Disaster, or an Opportunity 

Rosetta Stones [06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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Recently, there was an all-day party at the new homestead, which featured Don Ehlen's outstanding collection of gorgeous and fascinating insects. I want to relate something Don said as we talked... -- Read [...]

Purcell Sill, layer-jumping 

Mountain Beltway [15:50:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
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 US
After reading the post last weekend about the discordant offshoot of the Purcell Sill, Rich Gashnig (post-doc at Georgia Tech) sent me a few photos he shot at Piegan Pass (at the head of a side-canyon adjacent [...]

Heidelberg University Launches Lake Erie Algae Website 

Lake Scientist [15:58:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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 DE,US
Officials at Heidelberg University’s National Center for Water Quality Research have launched a new website to communicate issues harming the health of Lake Erie to the public, according to The[...] The post [...]

A Quarry Is Born 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [18:05:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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Last year our best discovery came in a little package—Fortunate Son, the site of a new species of dinosaur. When a new dinosaur locality is found, our permits allow us to explore the extent of the bone [...]
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