The couple owning a house up-slope from a massive 2014 landslide is accused of overwatering their lawn, leading to the landslide in a lawsuit filed by the developer. The developer also blames a natural gas company, and some other nearby construction, but had denied any responsibility for the slide. In a countersuit, the two homeowners say they are being scapegoated and blame a natural gas company that owns and operates two pipelines near the slide, two geotech firms that studied the land [...]
Crescent City Harbor from the south
In the far northwestern corner of California beyond Eureka and Arcata, the coast is lonely and wild, but there is one outpost of civilization, the small village of Crescent City. There are around 7,000 people, a small harbor with a fishing fleet, and a beautiful lighthouse, constructed in 1856 for pretty good reasons. The region around the harbor is
Four geoscience faculty members from University of Arizona have been elected Fellows of the American Geophysical Union. George E. Gehrels, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Jay Quade, and Peter A. Troch, will all be [...]
markwitton.com blog [17:11:00]
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(216 visits) category→arts_entertainment Jurassic
Which creative direction would you take one of the most successful movie franchises of all time? Apparently, I would start by desaturating it of all colour. Read on to find out more.To the surprise of no-one, [...]
We are using sound waves to image the subsurface of Georgia along two long transects. It is like creating a huge x-ray of the geology in the region. Thousands of instruments (termed “Texans”) will [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [22:16:00]
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(180 visits) category→recreation US,GB
They say natural history is dying. Support is in steep decline. There are fewer academic programs, staff are cut, museums and herbaria are shuttered. What a huge mistake! This is [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(174 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; DE,US
These little Edriocrinus policiformis crinoid cups are somewhat common in the Kalkberg formation of New York. They are a pretty good indicator that the rocks are lower Devonian in age. These fossils are just [...]
Heavy rainfall triggered landslides on Wednesday night in Central Nepal, killing at least 35 people. Worst affected were Kaski and Myagdi
The year is 2015. The world of paleoseismology is occupied by scientists traveling to Nagoya. Well, not entirely… One small number of unflinching scientists stay at their desks and hold out against the [...]
Fortunate Son’s luck has not run out! After digging through nearly a meter of nothing, Haviv came across a long bone that we think may be the tibia, or lower leg bone. Then as we were clearing out the [...]
This summer I’ve been updating some of the photos I placed in the Wikipedia system (check them out here, if you like; free to use for any purpose). I was especially anxious to replace a low-resolution [...]
One of the most distinctive and easily recognizable insects in the Cockrell Butterfly Center is the rice paper butterfly (Idea leuconoe), also known as the paper kite and the large tree nymph. All these common [...]
Fortunate Son’s luck has not run out! After digging through nearly a meter of nothing, Haviv came across a long bone that we think may be the tibia, or lower leg bone. Then as we were clearing out the [...]
The Hansen paper (submitted manuscript!) has provoked me into mentioning that the EGU are in the process of revamping the discussion phase of their on-line open access publications. There have been a number of [...]
Mountain Beltway [14:07:23]
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(199 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous; US
Some time ago, I featured as Friday fold the extraordinarily complex duplex structure to be seen in the Cretaceous “gastropod limestone” member of the Kootenai Formation at Sandy Hollow, Montana. [...]
The Arizona [Tucson] Daily Star ran a page-2 story on the passing of Bill Dickinson last week, calling him "a leader in the plate
tectonics revolution that re-formed our view of how geological forces
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Koprolitos [10:43:00]
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(176 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic; US
La nueva novela de Victor Milán, prolífico autor de ciencia ficción estadounidense, se llama "The Dinosaur Lords". De ella, George R. R. Martin ha dicho que es "un cruce entre Jurassic Park y Juego de [...]
Check out this proposed bridge in China's Zhangjiajie National Forest. It has a span of 1,200 feet and is over 1,300 feet off the ground. The majestic landscape was reportedly the inspiration for the [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:05:58]
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The most recent issue (Winter/Spring 2015) of the Teachers Clearinghouse for Science and Society Education Newsletter includes a piece, by Earth Science Correspondent, Michael J. Passow, on the 2015 General [...]
GroundProbe has released a new slope stability monitoring radar for use in pit. The SSR-FX is designed to aid in increasing safety and productivity in mines. According to GroundProbe CEO John Beevers:"The [...]
EXPEDITION LIVE! [05:16:24]
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With things going great at our main Mussentuchit localities this year, and an abundance of crew, we decided to carve off a handful of our team and hunt for new dinosaur sites in southern Utah for three days. [...]
10% of Gold Mines Are Operating at a LossMining.com What Regulates Methane Emissions in Freshwater Wetlands?University of Georgia Today Developing a Mission Statement at the Oregon Deparment of Geology and [...]
Hi everyone, Many thanks for your support over the years. We have decided to discontinue this blog due to re-organisations within CGS and the School of Earth and Environment. Ekbal will continue to blog about [...]