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Monday, 10 August 2015

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CSV to HTML 101 webmap 

Digital Geography [23:52:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
Alright, away from python scripting, I want to share a small tool CSV to HTML 101 with you, guys. I used VB.NET to develop it in order to help non-GIS experts from converting a CSV file to a web page using leaflet.JS library. Honestly, it’s not that complicated tool, but it gives them that push to start a web map especially if they have not dug that deep in web development, javascript and leaflet. However, I’m one of these people, so  please don’t judge my ugly code 😳 [...]

New maps of world's ocean floor -- ScienceDaily 

Central Arizona Geology Club [21:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info
category→recreation
 Link for new ocean mapsBig data maps world's ocean floor -- ScienceDailyHarry

Rockhounding: Digging for buried treasure in Utah’s west desert 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [20:46:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
heraldextra.com I’m pretty sure most of us had a rock collection when we were kids. Nothing very impressive, but personally I enjoyed finding cool looking rocks and trying to find out how they were made. [...]

Why Don’t Balancing Boulders Fall During Earthquakes? 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [20:37:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
category→science_technology
 NZ,US
smithsonianmag.com Some boulders defy gravity. Despite balancing on other rocks in the midst of fault lines, they stay precariously perched — thanks in part to those fault lines brushing up against each [...]

Praktikums-Angebot 

Projektblog - Geozon Science Media [17:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
category→business
 PL,DE
Wir sind: ein junges Verlagsprojekt, das aus einer universitären Ausgründung hervorgegangen ist. Wir erstellen Veröffentlichungen für die Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften in [...]

Bath Geological Society - CHANGES 

Geology in the West Country [17:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
category→recreation
 Neogene,Paleogene; US,CA,KM,CO,
Please note the following changes to our lecture and field trip programmeSeptember 3rdGeological evolution of N American cordilleraDr Doug RobinsonThe North American Cordilleran mountain chain runs N-S along [...]

Premiered This Day: Dinosaurus! (1960) 

Palaeoblog [16:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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Dinosaurus! (1960) was directed by Irvin Yeaworth and produced by Jack H. Harris. The movie poster is pretty bland so I’m presenting the cover for the comic adaptation instead. The film is most notable for [...]

The Disaster Profiteers 

State of the Planet [14:35:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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 US,MM
  In his new book The Disaster Profiteers, Earth Institute professor John Mutter argues that natural disasters are bad for the poor–and can be great for the rich, who often seize resources meant [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Mesopotamia, the ancient land between rivers 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
category→recreation
 Quaternary; US,CN,IR,IQ,KW,SY,TR,GB,IN
Mesopotamia, an area rich in history and considered as the cradle of civilisation, with the first populations establishing themselves in the region some 6000 years ago,lies between two great rivers: the [...]

Understanding Aquifers For Sustainable Groundwater Management 

Reporting on a Revolution [08:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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 IN,PK
This essay  (open access) is a timely reminder from Rajiv Sinha from IIT Kanpur on the role basic geology plays in sustainable groundwater management plans. He gives the example of the Haryana and Punjab [...]

August 10, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
category→recreation
 US,NZ
Simulations of New Madrid Earthquakes Show Strong Ground Shaking in Memphis and Little RockUnited States Geological Survey What Will Kickstart The Northwest’s Earthquake Preparations?Emergency Management How [...]

Wooster Geologist at Niagara Falls 

Wooster Geologists [06:10:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Silurian; DE,US
LOCKPORT, NEW YORK (August 10, 2015) — I know, such a cliché image, but you know it had to happen on this trip. This morning Andrej Ernst and I packed up 78 pounds of bryozoan-rich Silurian rocks and [...]

Sade Village is One of Interest Lombok Attractions 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [05:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
category→recreation
 NL
Vacation with the family to Lombok, certainly will make you and your family will enjoy this holiday time. This charming island has a variety of interesting sights to visit. You can relax by white sandy beaches [...]

Unidentified Horn Coral Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [04:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
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This picture shows an unidentified horn coral fossil. The small bumps on across the fossil might be the remains of some type of holdfast the creature used to anchor itself to the seabed. It was found in the [...]

Quite week 32 in Iceland 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [01:43:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
category→science_technology
 IS
It has been a quiet week 32 in Iceland. With only minimal earthquake activity taking place in the usual places, with just minor earthquakes taking place and no earthquakes with magnitude 3,0 or larger [...]

Sandstone Arches and National Parks: Testing for Collapse Likelihood 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [20:42:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
category→science_technology
 FR,US
natureworldnews.com Things are humming right along at Arches National Park. That is, scientists who wondered about possible internal damage in the 88-foot-long Mesa Arch at Canyonlands National Park-one of [...]

Geology of the National Parks in Pictures - Zion National Park: Take 2 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [20:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (234 visits) info
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 US
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The next up on my tour of the National Parks is a revisited park. You can see part one HERE.Zion National ParkObligatory entrance sign View down the Lower Fork Virgin River from the bridge that leads to [...]

Praktikums-Angebot 

Projektblog - Geozon Science Media [17:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
Wir sind: ein junges Verlagsprojekt, das aus einer universitären Ausgründung hervorgegangen ist. Wir erstellen Veröffentlichungen für die Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften in digitaler und [...]

Bouldgers and mud close US891A north of Grand Canyon 

Arizona Geology [17:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (205 visits) info
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 US
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Losing Ernie 

Mountain Beltway [16:11:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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 US
I got horrible news yesterday. One of my favorite students committed suicide Saturday night. Ernie was a participant in last year’s Border to Beltway field exchange. He was a student at El Paso Community [...]

Fossilise! A game about fossils 

Earth Learning Idea [12:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (229 visits) info
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A rainy day in the holidays? Try 'Fossilise!' This ELI is a game about how fossils form and survive. You collect cards as you play the game and, of course, everyone wants to win to collect the Gold Nugget [...]

Favosites heldebergiae coral from the Kalkberg formartion of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (248 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Devonian; DE,US,IN
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Corals are not terribly common in the section of the Kalkberg formation that I have collected and most of what I have found are small examples. Such is the case with Favosites heldergeriae as seen in these two [...]

First Record of a Lagerpetid Dinosauromorph from the Late Triassic of Argentina 

Chinleana [08:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (643 visits) info
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 Triassic; AR
Martínez, R. N., Apaldetti, C., Correa, G. A., and D. Abelín. 2015. A Norian lagerpetid dinosauromorph from the Quebrada del Barro Formation, northwestern Argentina. Ameghiniana (future [...]

Prehistoric Porn, de David Martingale 

Koprolitos [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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Más David Martingale

Living in the Lower Volcanic Cloud 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [05:37:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
category→recreation
 ID
Volcanic eruption not just stated the lives of humans, but additionally transformed the face area of character. Earth takes 100s of many years to get over the results of volcanic eruptions. The eruption of [...]

Bad Science Is Always Fair Game 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [05:17:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
category→religion
When Daily Show host John Stewart said goodbye last week he gave his fans some advice that I thought was excellent- If you see B.S., then say something. So, with that in mind, this is fair notice that while I [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 8/10-8/16 

BEYONDbones [03:00:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week!  Last Week of Xplorations Summer Camp Monday, August 10 [...]
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