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A stone person stands on an outcrop up in Callaghan Creek a few kilometers west of Whistler in British Columbia. It has been called an inuksuk, although inunnguaq may be the more proper name (it's the [...]
Just a little summary for those of you who don't want to trudge through all my stuff. It's like digging up the potatoes, which I did this weekend, you go through a lot of dirt before something good pops up.
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A new report on proposed potash projects in North America says 9 of the top ten in value are in Saskatchewan, Canada. The other one is Passport Potash's $1.9 billion project in Arizona's Holbrook basin.
A [...]
Many cities in India are expected to reach dimensions of megacities within the next years. Vital urban services such as water supply and water removal have to be expanded to serve larger areas and growing [...]
Have you tried this thought experiment to investigate the water cycle? "‘Tagging’ water molecules – to explore the water cycle" is one of a series of ELIs about the water cycle.
Pupils [...]
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student at Columbia or Barnard interested in sustainability and the environment? Are you looking for a paid internship for the fall? Apply by this Friday, August 28th, to [...]
State of the Planet [16:01:47]
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People have been finding loose diamonds across the United States and Canada since the early 1800s, but for the most part, no one knows where they came from. It was not until the 1990s that geologists tracked [...]
In Gebirgsregionen verursachen Erdbeben häufig starke
Hangrutschungen, die durch starke Regenereignisse noch verstärkt werden
können. Diese oft gewaltigen und gefährlichen Massenverlagerungen an
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“After a diamond captures something, from that moment until millions of years later in my lab, that material stays the same. We can look at diamonds as time capsules, as messengers from a place we have no [...]
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! Behind-the-Scenes ToursTuesday, August 25 6:00 p.m.Enjoy the [...]
Hybodus from the Holzmaden-Schiefer - Jurassic (Lias) - ebook:
The Way of the Geophysicist [11:33:14]
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Reading Time: 1 minutesI love travelling. Collecting stamps in my passport is a souvenir that is precious to me and so far I have kept my passports and the memories it contains. But today I more than ever I [...]
The Terrorbird Gastornis edwardsii in comparison to a
Hybodus from Holzmaden-Schiefer - Jurassic
Hermann Andert, 1934. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 3: Die Fauna der obersten Kreide in Sachsen, Böhmen und Schlesien. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt, [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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These little bryozoan "chips"were interesting to find and I'm trying to figure out what genera they are. They bear a resemblance to Paleschara sp. but they are not encrusting a shell, which is how I find them [...]
Hermann Andert, 1934. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 3: Die Fauna der obersten Kreide in Sachsen, Böhmen und Schlesien. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt, [...]
Tierra de Dinosaurios [12:32:00]
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Dentro de los actos de celebración del 40º aniversario del Colectivo Arqueológico-Paleontológico Salense (C.A.S.) se organiza un concierto de Carlos Sarduy Quartet. El evento será el 30 de agosto, a las [...]
Hermann Andert, 1928. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 1: Das Elbsandsteingebirge östlich der Elbe. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt, Neue Folge [...]
It is hard to believe that just a few days ago, the hotel had 30+ college studentsroaming the hallways and the parking lot was full of SUV’s washed in clay, sand andmud. When most of the second phase of the [...]
Are you back from holiday? Maybe you switched from Casale Monferrato, Piedmont and have used the map of Monferrato Landscapes. If you were lucky, you see a new update, I’ve made ten days ago, otherwise I [...]
Hybodus from the Holzmaden-Schiefer - Jurassic (Lias) - ebook:
Arriba cubierta de Analog Science Fiction Vol. 66 #6 (1960) ilustrada por Henry Richard Van Dongen; abajo una reconstrucción de un Brontosaurus pintada por Charles Knight en 1898 que ya vimos versionada por [...]
Green Tea and Velociraptors [16:45:23]
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This year, the 63rd Symposium for Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy is taking place alongside the 24th Symposium of Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation with the Geological [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:03:24]
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smithsonianmag.com Paleontologists get really excited when they find poop — or at least, fossilized feces, called coprolites. They are not alone in the research world in this regard. Finding coprolites still [...]
In my latest paper, written with Sergio Sepulveda, Regional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean, we look at ten years of human losses from landslides across [...]
Hybodus from Holzmaden-Schiefer - Jurassic
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:45:15]
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On a small and isolated island in the Indian Ocean you’ll find an endemic population of Dragon Blood Trees (Dracaena cinnabari). Burly, with an interesting umbrella-shaped fractal canopy, these unique trees [...]
Hermann Andert, 1928. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 1: Das Elbsandsteingebirge östlich der Elbe. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt, Neue Folge [...]