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Wednesday, 29 July 2015

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It’s a vert! It’s on the sagittal plane! 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [02:53:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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 US
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!

Ramping up for bigger, badder SUGAR Part 2 

SUGAR [05:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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 US,
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 [...]

Hell Creek: What I found on my summer "vacation" 

RMDRC paleo lab [18:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US
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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 [...]

Was ist im Inneren von Pluto? 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info
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Tiger's Eye: A Deceptive Delight 

Rosetta Stones [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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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... -- Read [...]

Small Dasciocrinus Crinoid Calyx Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [06:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
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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 [...]

July 29, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

LBEG startet Untersuchungskampagne zu möglichen Bodenbelastungen im Umfeld von Erdgasförderplätzen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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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 [...]

Icnitas de hace 250 millones de años en el Moncayo 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [10:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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 Triassic; ES,US,,MX
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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 [...]

Superhéroes y dinosaurios II: Len Wein 

Koprolitos [09:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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 BR,IT,US
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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 [...]

Beyond the Caldera – Back to the Beartooths 

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [07:53:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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 CI,US
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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 [...]

Dusty comet releases mysterious clumps 

AGU Meetings [15:29:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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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 [...]

Handpicked gems meet gold vermeil at Tummino’s Trunk Show 

BEYONDbones [13:00:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff AG: Weiterer Aktienrückkauf beschlossen 

Rohstoff Blog [13:33:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (24 visits) info
Volumen von bis zu EUR 2 Mio./Einziehung der 2014 zurückgekauften Aktien Heidelberg. Der Vorstand der Deutsche Rohstoff AG (ISIN DE000A0XYG76,

Trilobites from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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 Devonian; DE,RU,US
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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 [...]

SYMPHONY OF SCIENCE - WAVES OF LIGHT 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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Deep-Sea Citizen Science??? Okeanos Begins August 1 in the Hawaiian Islands! 

Echinoblog [15:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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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. [...]

Oklahoma earthquake damage confirmed 

Ontario-geofish [17:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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 US
Reference 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 [...]

El Nino fights the good fight 

Ontario-geofish [14:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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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 [...]

Study: Rosemont Copper mine has lost $3 billion in value due to permitting delays 

Arizona Geology [04:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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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 [...]

Two wonderful new landslide videos, one from Taiwan and one from Japan 

The Landslide Blog [09:32:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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 JP,TW
In the last 24 hours two tremendous new landslide videos have appeared online, one from Japan and one from

Positively-weathering volcanic dike near Granby, Colorado 

Mountain Beltway [14:50:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff AG: Weiterer Aktienrückkauf beschlossen 

Rohstoff Blog [13:33:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
category→business
Volumen von bis zu EUR 2 Mio./Einziehung der 2014 zurückgekauften Aktien Heidelberg. Der Vorstand der Deutsche Rohstoff AG (ISIN DE000A0XYG76,

All you ever wanted to know about EGU publications 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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 DE,CN,NO,CH,
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 [...]

Le emissioni gassose dell'eruzione del Bardarbunga 

scienzeedintorni [15:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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 BO,DE,LV,SE,IS,US,IT,KM,FR,PH,CH,BR,RU
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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, [...]
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