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Monday, 24 August 2015

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The Terrorbird Gastornis edwardsii in comparison to a... 

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The Terrorbird Gastornis edwardsii in comparison to a

August 24, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (268 visits) info
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 US,
New Topographic and Orthoimage Maps for Wyoming – Free Downloads from USGSUnited States Geological Survey How Life and Luck Changed Earth’s MineralsWired Science Washington, D.C., Sinking Fast, Adding to Threat of Sea-Level RiseThe University of Vermont Antarctic Detector Confirms Observation of Cosmic NeutrinosNational Science Foundation Susquehanna River Basin Commission Finds No Impacts on Streams from

Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Controversial Stone People, Fire and Ice, and an Olympic Legacy 

Geotripper [05:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (231 visits) info
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 CA
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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 [...]

Oklahoma earthquakes rehash 

Ontario-geofish [02:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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 US
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. [...]

Holbrook basin potash valued as one of top 10 projects in North America 

Arizona Geology [04:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
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 CA,US,
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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 [...]

cultural and religious exposure to water on the basis of different social systems – Chennai, India 

Water and Megacities [19:53:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (184 visits) info
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 IN
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 [...]

‘Tagging’ water molecules – to explore the water cycle 

Earth Learning Idea [18:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
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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 [...]

Apply Now to Intern in the Executive Director’s Office 

State of the Planet [17:22:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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 CO
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 [...]

Photo Essay: The Mystery of North American Diamonds 

State of the Planet [16:01:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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 CA,US
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 [...]

Selbstheilende Landschaft: Hangrutschungen nach Erdbeben 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [19:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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     In Gebirgsregionen verursachen Erdbeben häufig starke Hangrutschungen, die durch starke Regenereignisse noch verstärkt werden können. Diese oft gewaltigen und gefährlichen Massenverlagerungen an [...]

Cracking Open Diamonds for Messages From the Deep Earth 

State of the Planet [16:00:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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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 [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 8/24-8/30 

BEYONDbones [03:00:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 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!  Behind-the-Scenes ToursTuesday, August 25 6:00 p.m.Enjoy the [...]

Hybodus from the Holzmaden-Schiefer - Jurassic (Lias) - ebook:... 

geo-ebooks [12:00:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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 Jurassic
Hybodus from the Holzmaden-Schiefer - Jurassic (Lias) - ebook:

Today I want to be Canadian 

The Way of the Geophysicist [11:33:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 Ordovician; GB,CA,
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... 

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The Terrorbird Gastornis edwardsii in comparison to a

Hybodus from Holzmaden-Schiefer -  Jurassic (Lias) 

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Hybodus from Holzmaden-Schiefer -  Jurassic

Andert, 1934. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 3 

kreidefossilien.de [23:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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, [...]

Paleschara or Leioclesma bryozoans from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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 Devonian; DE,US
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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 [...]

Andert, 1934. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 3 

kreidefossilien.de [23:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
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 DE
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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, [...]

Concierto de Carlos Sarduy Quarter en Salas de los Infantes (Burgos) 

Tierra de Dinosaurios [12:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
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 ES
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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 [...]

Andert, 1928. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 1 

kreidefossilien.de [23:00:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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 DE
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Hermann Andert, 1928. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 1: Das Elbsandsteingebirge östlich der Elbe. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt, Neue Folge [...]

First to arrive and last to leave… 

SUGAR [00:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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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 [...]

Awesome map style 

Digital Geography [13:43:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info

 IT
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:... 

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Hybodus from the Holzmaden-Schiefer - Jurassic (Lias) - ebook:

Fusilando sin piedad: Van Dongen after Knight 

Koprolitos [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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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 [...]

SVPCA 2015 

Green Tea and Velociraptors [16:45:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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 GB,US
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 [...]

Fossilized Poop is Rare, Fossilized Poop Inside a Fossilized Dinosaur is Even Rarer 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:03:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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 IN
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 [...]

My new paper: human losses from landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean 

The Landslide Blog [07:00:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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 US,
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 (Lias) 

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 Jurassic
Hybodus from Holzmaden-Schiefer -  Jurassic

Imaggeo on Mondays: Dragon Blood Tree 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:45:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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 Cretaceous,Neogene,Paleogene; NL,AE,RU,CN,SO,YE,FR,
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 [...]

Andert, 1928. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 1 

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Hermann Andert, 1928. Die Kreideablagerungen zwischen Elbe und Jeschken Teil 1: Das Elbsandsteingebirge östlich der Elbe. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt, Neue Folge [...]
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