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Tuesday, 28 July 2015

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Cleveland Lloyd Quarry and Photogammetry: New Look at Jurassic Predators 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:11:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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 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 —

Bomb threat empties state office complex 

Arizona Geology [22:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
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 US
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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

More Bone at Fortunate Son 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [18:50:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info
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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. 

Geology in the West Country [18:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (245 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Lego Geology 

Geology in the West Country [18:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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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 [...]

Name that Street 

New Stories in Stone [16:44:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 US
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 [...]

Three New Diatom Species Found In Lake Of The Clouds 

Lake Scientist [15:52:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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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[...] The post [...]

Melting drones on Vanuatu – Amazing footage from an active volcano 

The Way of the Geophysicist [13:16:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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 VU
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 [...]

INQUA Peribaltic Meeting - Ankündigung 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [11:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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 NL,EE,
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 [...]

Escultosaurios VII: Saurópodos 

Koprolitos [08:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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Those Magnificent Vedic Men In Their Flying Machines 

Reporting on a Revolution [07:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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 IN
“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 [...]

Summer earthquake activity in Katla volcano 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [03:36:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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 IS
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 [...]

Great Things Come In Small Packages 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [18:43:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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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 - Strawberry Bank Fossils 

Geology in the West Country [18:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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 GB
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BRLSI collections  - remarkable fossils from Strawberry Bank, Ilminster,

Guest blog by Yu Zhou (Oxford): The 2013 Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake in Pakistan: NOT SO UNUSUAL 

Paleoseismicity [18:03:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (684 visits) info
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 GB,PK,
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 [...]

Educated Girls Uncover Unmet Design Needs 

State of the Planet [16:12:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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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 [...]

Millboro Formation shale in outcrop and in hand sample 

Mountain Beltway [14:08:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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 US
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. [...]

Sediment and sea: from the heights to the depths 

Metageologist [11:51:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (714 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

INQUA Peribaltic Meeting - Ankündigung 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [11:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
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 [...]

July 28, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Paladin chesterensis Trilobite Fossils 

Louisville Area Fossils [06:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (693 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
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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 [...]

Earthquake swarm on TFZ (Tjörnes fracture zone) 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [02:54:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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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 [...]
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