It’s SuperBone! I knew that dinosaurs were large, but seeing Sauropod bones in person is still unbelievable. After a week and a half in the desserts of Utah, I have learned more than I thought was possible about digging up and protecting prehistoric bones. During my last few days here, I hope to experience … Continue reading It’s a vert! It’s on the sagittal plane!
We are in Georgia gearing up for the second phase of field work for the SUGAR project, which will involve collecting seismic refraction data along two profiles spanning eastern Georgia. In the coming weeks, we’ll deploy thousands of small seismometers along county and state roads across the region, which will record sound waves generated by a series of controlled blasts. We can use the sound waves to make pictures of geology beneath the surface. Geological structures beneath Georgia record [...]
We've just returned to the lab from a 2 week expedition to the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. The weather was very hot, the bugs were out in force, and I had a grand total of one shower during our stint [...]
Heyo, it's International Tiger Day! Yeah, I know, we don't do biology around here, but that's okay - I've got just the rock for the occasion: A raw bit of Tiger's Eye! I'll bet you've seen this...
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Louisville Area Fossils [06:54:00]
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This picture appears to show a Dasciocrinus sp. crinoid calyx fossil. It was found in the Big Clifty Formation of Crawford County, Indiana, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. It is quite [...]
Ten Things to Know About Thunderstorms That Strike at NightNational Science Foundation What Parts of the World Have the Most Lightning ?Geology.com Ocean Acidification May Cause Dramatic Changes to [...]
Das LBEG führt seine Untersuchungen nach möglichen Bodenbelastungen im Umfeld von Erdgasförderplätzen mit einer systematischen Kampagne fort. Das Programm startete am 27.07.2015 in Bothel und umfasst alle [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [10:26:00]
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Una de las piezas del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Zaragoza con más interés mediático y científico son dos lajas con icnitas del Triásico del Moncayo. Fue descrita inicialmente hace [...]
Len Wein (1948, New York) debutó en DC en 1968. Dos años después comienza también a colaborar con Marvel de la mano de Roy Thomas, el protagonista de nuestro anterior post, junto al que escribió una [...]
WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [07:53:06]
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In 2011, I spent barely 30 minutes crawling around a patch of outcrops on the road to Lulu Pass. In 2012, I took eight hours to drive the 64 miles across it, stopping to take a picture approximately every 30 [...]
Images of an unusually dusty comet have revealed strange streaming clumps that could hold the secrets to how comets create their beautiful, sweeping, striated tails.
Comet C/2011 L4 barged into the research [...]
Native Texan Mirta Tummino discovered her talent for jewelry design while working for a Fortune 500 company in Chicago. Her part-time design and metalsmithing studies at the Lillstreet Art Center quickly [...]
Volumen von bis zu EUR 2 Mio./Einziehung der 2014 zurückgekauften Aktien Heidelberg. Der Vorstand der Deutsche Rohstoff AG (ISIN DE000A0XYG76,
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(203 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; DE,RU,US
I have not found too many trilobite fossils in my limited searching of the Kalkberg formation but I did find pieces of two different species.The first are these free cheeks from Acidaspis tuberculatus. Note [...]
So, on August 1, the NOAA research vessel Okeanos Explorer begins its first livestream ROV dive as part of the 2015 Hohanu Moana Expedition to investigate the deep-sea habitats of the Hawaiian Islands region.
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I finally found the damage! Ok people, this was an M5, you're fooling yourself with M4.5. It was also a true Intensity 7, with the structural damage. The busgus got rid of that report, and [...]
This is a screen shot of the ocean currents. El Nino is fighting the prevailing currents. It could actually die right here, like last time. If it makes it, it will deflect up and down like the second [...]
Permitting delays have reduced the economic value of the proposed Rosemont copper mine by $3 billion according to a new study commissioned by the National Mining Association.NMA commissioned the study [...]
In the last 24 hours two tremendous new landslide videos have appeared online, one from Japan and one from
My friend Barbara am Ende sent along this lovely image of a dike in Colorado: Here’s the site. You can see the dike in Google Earth. Dikes are fractures, filled with molten rock, which then cools and [...]
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GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:24]
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Did you know that, the EGU, through Copernicus Publications, publishes 17 peer-reviewed open-access journals? The journals cover a range of topics within the Earth, planetary and space sciences: with [...]
scienzeedintorni [15:14:00]
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L'eruzione del Bardarbunga, iniziata alla fine di agosto del 2014 e conclusasi nel febbraio successivo, ha appassionato i vulcanologi all'inizio per gli eventi che l'hanno preparata, poi per le sue dimensioni, [...]