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Friday, 31 July 2015

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Controversy and Finger Pointing in 2014 Landslide in North Salt Lake 

GeoPrac.net [09:24:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (252 visits) info
category→business
 US
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 [...]

Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Northern California's Tsunami Central 

Geotripper [09:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (248 visits) info
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 US
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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

Arizonans elected as AGU Fellows 

Arizona Geology [18:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (243 visits) info
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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 [...]

Where next for the Jurassic Park movies? 

markwitton.com blog [17:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (216 visits) info
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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, [...]

Drill, Baby Drill! Drilling and filling for the SUGAR seismic shots 

SUGAR [18:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
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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 [...]

I, Naturalist .... You, Naturalist? 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [22:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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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 [...]

Edriocrinus policiformis crinoid "cup" from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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 Devonian; DE,US
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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 [...]

Nepal landslides: over 30 killed yesterday in Kaski and Myagdi 

The Landslide Blog [10:31:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info
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 NP
Heavy rainfall triggered landslides on Wednesday night in Central Nepal, killing at least 35 people. Worst affected were Kaski and Myagdi

What’s up? The Friday links (87) 

paleoseismicity.org [10:51:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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 JP
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 [...]

The quarry that won’t quit 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [04:26:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A conulariid revisited (Lower Carboniferous of Indiana) 

Wooster Geologists [06:04:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

A Staple for Butterfly Exhibits: The Rice Paper 

BEYONDbones [11:00:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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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 [...]

The quarry that won’t quit 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [04:26:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (51 visits) info
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 [...]

EGU Open discussions 

James’ Empty Blog [16:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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 CN
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 [...]

Friday fold: a return to the duplex structure in the Gastropod Limestone 

Mountain Beltway [14:07:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info
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 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. [...]

Remembering Bill Dickinson 

Arizona Geology [04:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (195 visits) info
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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 [...]

El arte de The Dinosaur Lords por Richard Anderson 

Koprolitos [10:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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 Jurassic; US
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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 [...]

The World's Longest (and Scariest) Glass Pedestrian Bridge 

GeoPrac.net [10:15:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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 CN,SG
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 [...]

GeoEd: EGU General Assembly and GIFT 2015 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:05:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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 AT,US,CN,,CA
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 Releases New In Pit Radar 

GeoPrac.net [10:14:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
category→recreation
 AU
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 [...]

Southern Utah Team Split Off 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [05:16:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US
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. [...]

July 31, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

This blog will now be discontinued 

Climate and Geohazards [11:21:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
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 [...]
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