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Tuesday, 11 August 2015

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August 11, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (607 visits) info
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 IN,US
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Built a 200 Acre Model of the Mississippi River Basin in 1948Atlas Obscura The Natural Gas Price Volatility Season ArrivesBloomberg Gemfields: Auctioning Colored Gemstone Deposits in India is Not ViableBusiness Standard Video: Cave Divers Explore Pandora CaveCaving News The New $8B Suez CanalThe Washington Post Map Shows Content and Origins

Welcome... To Waterloo Station 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [22:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (238 visits) info
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The dust of Jurassic World may have settled too long to warrant sharing these pictures now, but I was in the throes of moving house, followed by a lengthy period without home internet, and lacked the opportunity previously. Still, I felt I couldn’t have these pictures on my hands without posting them on the blog. During the first week of Jurassic World’s release, London’s Waterloo Station took part in what can only be described as a promotional extravaganza with a display featuring [...]

Kooperation TU Clausthal – Weltkulturerbe Rammelsberg trägt Früchte 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (221 visits) info
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 DE
Es bewährt sich, das Weltkulturerbe Rammelsberg als Lehr- und Forschungsbergwerk in die akademische Ausbildung an der TU Clausthal zu integrieren. Dies ist bei der Ergebnispräsentation des Lehrprojektes [...]

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week 

Highly Allochthonous [03:18:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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Owl pellets from West Desert cave yield more insight into impact of human settlement 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:40:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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sltrib.com Researchers sifting through deposits of owl pellets in Utah’s Homestead Cave have discovered that small-mammal communities scurrying around the West Desert remained stable through millennia of [...]

Evolution afrikanischer Säugetiere – kontinuierlich, nicht sprunghaft 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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     Aufgrund der wissenschaftlichen Theorie des Punktualismus gibt es in der Fachwelt die verbreitete Auffassung, dass große Entwicklungen bei afrikanischen Säugetieren (einschließlich Mensch) stets [...]

The Bipolar Attitude of Nuclear Plants and Earthquakes 

Ontario-geofish [13:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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 JP
Reference So, a pitiful Japanese nuclear reactor got hit by a 1 in 500 seismic event.  Big mess.  The reactor beside it wasn't bothered.  Now they are restarting, and this probably puts less lives at risk [...]

From site U1459C we have a core that shouldn't be 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [10:14:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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Sometimes when we’re trying to get a core, we end up with  just an empty liner. We expect that to happen. What we don't expect is getting a [...]

Field Geology in Pembrokeshire (Part 1) 

Geology in the West Country [18:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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 Ordovician,Cambrian; GB,IN
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Lifelong Learning 4 day course Field Geology in Pembrokeshire (Part 1)  Two weekends in October: 10th, 11th and 24th, 25th10.00 am – 5.00 pm each dayThe Pembrokeshire landscape differs from much of [...]

Hiking Till Death Do Us Part 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [19:32:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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One of our goals this expedition is to find new dinosaur sites to excavate next year. After four unsuccessful days of hiking around southern Utah looking for sites, the team spent four days prospecting the [...]

Mississippian Period Bryozoan Fossil with Holdfasts 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
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This picture shows what appears to be a Fenestella bryozoan fossil. While a common fossil to find in the Louisville area when looking a Mississippian age rock, finding one with narrow tube like holdfasts is [...]

Los dinosaurios skaters de Vinicius Gut 

Koprolitos [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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El ilustrador Vinicius Gut, residente en Junidiaí (São Paulo, Brasil), es un apasionado del skate y muestra de ello es la recurrencia de este elemento en sus diseños. Animales patinando, calaveras y [...]

Died This Day: Lorenz Oken 

Palaeoblog [15:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
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Lorenz Oken (Aug. 1, 1779 - Aug. 11, 1851) was a German naturalist who offered early evolutionary ideas and stimulated comparative anatomy. He theorized (incorrectly) that the skull was a modified vertebra, [...]

Geognostische Profile 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [12:41:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
Geognostische Profile, aus Tauber, 1799 - () - Ort: Plauenscher

Diplodocid sacra of the AMNH (and indeed the Carnegie Museum) 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [11:33:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (208 visits) info
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 US
Back in 2012, when Matt and I were at the American Museum of Natural History to work on “Apatosaurus” minimus, we also photographed some other sacra for comparative purposes. One of them [...]

Bio-mediated geotechnics center established at ASU 

Arizona Geology [17:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
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Arizona State University says they were awarded its second Engineering Research Center from the National Science Foundation, making it one of only two universities in the nation to lead two of the prestigious [...]

Tying the cost of flood insurance to the level of risk 

Arizona Geology [22:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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Two new reports from the National Research Council look at the issue of tying the cost of flood insurance to the level of risk associated with the structures being insured. It turns out about 1/5 of the 5.5 [...]

Dennis E. Hayes, Mapper of the World’s Ocean Beds 

State of the Planet [16:45:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
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 US
Dennis E. Hayes, a marine geophysicist who advanced mapping of the world’s ocean floors, died at his home in New York City on Aug. 6. He was

Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Into the Rainforest, Seeing Something Strange...Rain 

Geotripper [07:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info
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So, after a Dismal day of Disappointment, the vagabonders hit the road, going north onto the Olympic Peninsula. It was my first time on the west side of the peninsula, and my first foray into the Hoh [...]

Inside Discovery Guides: Why you should consider a museum tour with a concierge 

BEYONDbones [23:54:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
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 US
by “Cretaceous” Chris Wells The Houston Museum of Natural Science started small. Back in 1909, when the museum was founded, you could probably see everything we had to offer in 30 minutes. But [...]

Gold King mine waste water heading to Lake Powell 

Arizona Geology [16:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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Officials in New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona are analyzing the potential impacts of 3 million gallons of waste water from the  abandoned Gold King mine in Colorado [right, credit US EPA], as it moves down the [...]

Flying Saucers at Mt. Rainier 

New Stories in Stone [15:18:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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There’s a nice little story in the New York Times today about flying saucers. Sixty eight years ago the world learned them, or at least the term originated then. It was in reference to objects that [...]

Canada’s Abraham Lake A Frozen Beauty 

Lake Scientist [15:52:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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During the summer time, Canada’s Abraham Lake looks like many of its neighboring water bodies. Nestled in a section of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, the lake is dwarfed by towering peaks[...] The post [...]

What do you see here? 

Mountain Beltway [13:01:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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Click to enlarge Noodle on that for a minute. I’ll post my answer later. No hints for now. Just examine what you see in the

The Real Reason U.S. Weather Models Missed The Forecast on Hurricane Sandy 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:40:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
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 US
Among my fellow meteorologists, the talk after Hurricane Sandy was how accurate the european ECMWF model was compared to the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS) model. Fortunately, most of us who were [...]

Geognostische Profile 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [12:41:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
Geognostische Profile, aus Tauber, 1799 - () - Ort: Plauenscher
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