Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:11:53]
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(142 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic; US
natureworldnews.com It’s hard to imagine the last Ice Age without thinking of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits, which trapped a number of prehistoric monsters in resin: giant sloths and smilodons so well-preserved that parasites in their fur could be analyzed to determine the time of year in which they died. The Jurassic period —
A bomb threat to the Attorney General's office prompted evacuation this morning just after 10 am, of the State Office Complex in Tucson where AZGS is housed. Police just gave us clearance to return to our offices after 3 and a half hours. They brought in bomb-sniffing dogs and a robot from the Tucson Police Bomb Squad [right, robot rolling off the ramp. bottom, robot on its way
After days of clearing rock at Fortunate Son without a bone to be found anywhere, the crew was exuberant to radio me that they had uncovered three bones, including another limb element of this new species. [...]
The Geological Evolution of the NW USA.Leader: Dr Doug RobinsonSaturday 28 May - Sunday June 12th 2016 The trip will occupy 14 nights, flying into Seattle in Washington State and out of Denver in Colorado.The [...]
Geology in the West Country [18:17:00]
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Research Geology In Action!Please help support this project to show other STEM research opportunities!Click here "I'm a female research geologist with a love of lego- this is a sample of my career. The scene [...]
New Stories in Stone [16:44:39]
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Over the past few weeks as I have been wandering the Seattle streets for my new book of urban walks, I have noticed a feature that I had previously noted but not thought too much about. It’s the handful [...]
After a summer sampling trip to Michigan’s Lake of the Clouds, students at the University of Michigan’s Biological Station have uncovered three new species of diatoms, according to a release[...]
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The Way of the Geophysicist [13:16:24]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesRecent advances in technology have made drones available to the general public. And as nerds go, they have found brilliant ways to use these. Flying a drone with a camera into a volcano [...]
Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [11:32:00]
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The next Inqua Peribaltic meeting will
be in the Netherlands 2-8 November, 2015.
The Meeting of the Working Group will
start and end in Utrecht. In between we will [...]
“Aeroplane is a vehicle which travels through the air from one country to another country, from one continent to another continent, and from one planet to another planet.”
...was the timely explanation [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [03:36:39]
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For the past few days there has been summer earthquake activity in Katla volcano. None of the earthquake have reached magnitude 2,0 so far. Earthquake activity in Katla volcano. Copyright of this image belongs [...]
Suicide Hill is turned out to be an interesting site. Lots of skull bones here, which is quite unusual. Also there’s this……we thought we had a single animal here but it seems as if we gave at [...]
BRLSI collections - remarkable fossils from Strawberry Bank, Ilminster,
In 2013, a MW7.7 earthquake struck Balochistan, caused a huge surface offset and triggered a small tsunami in the Arabian Sea. Immediately, the apparently strange fault behaviour caused the attention of [...]
Flip through any fashionable design annual, and you’ll read of something called “Human Centered Design.” The practice of HCD places emphasis on user testing, interviews, field research and high-touch [...]
Another site from the GMU sedimentology field trip in April: An outcrop on Route 33 in Brandywine, West Virginia, showing the Millboro Formation. It’s mostly shale, with some intriguing sandstones, too. [...]
This study in blues and greys and browns, this combination of fuzziness and sharp edges, where is it? It’s where land and ocean meet and mingle. A place where mud and silt and sand pause half way along [...]
The next Inqua Peribaltic meeting will
be in the Netherlands 2-8 November, 2015.
The Meeting of the Working Group will
start and end in Utrecht. In between we will visit [...]
Climate Change Reduces Coral Reefs’ Ability to Protect CoastsUnited States Geological Survey A Rare Breakthrough in Groundwater ModelingUniversity of Wyoming Federal Funding for Science and Engineering Drops [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [06:29:00]
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These pictures appear to show Paladin chesterensis (Weller and Weller, 1936) trilobite fossils. They were found in the Big Clifty Formation of Crawford County, Indiana, USA. The fossils date to the [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [02:54:08]
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Earthquake swarm started on TFZ on 27-July-2015. At the moment this earthquake swarm is minor with no earthquake reaching the magnitude of 3,0. That might change without warning. The earthquake swarm on [...]