Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [23:32:00]
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May the 1980s bonanza continue (please do check out part 1 for background, amusing spinosaurs etc.) Having exclusively featured theropods in the first post, let's turn now to their fellow saurischian dinosaurs - you know, the often staggeringly huge ones with the long necks, long tails, and tendency to appear far more loveable than a reptilian behemoth the size of a house probably should. But we haven't just got sauropods - we've got Gregory S Paul™ sauropods!When placed in the context of a [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [23:26:00]
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Este ano estamos a participar nos trabalhos de campo da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), na cidade de Uberlândia, no Triângulo Mineiro, no estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil, a convite do paleontólogo Douglas Riff (UFU).Prospectámos e escavámos na Formação Adamantina e Formação Marília, membro Echaporã, do Cretácico Superior (Campaniano-Maastrichtiano), onde recolhemos ossos de saurópodes titanossauros, um crânio de crocodilo baurussuquídeo Pissarrachampsa sera e ovos [...]
The next up on my tour of the geology of the National Parks in pictures is:Rocky Mountain National ParkFor our travels through Rocky Mountain NP, I have a lot of scenery photos, but not much in the way of [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [22:51:00]
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Este ano (2 a 12 de Agosto de 2015) o Projecto PaleoAngola contou com mais uma expedição de campo. Os trabalhos de campo concentraram-se no N'Zeto (província de Zaire), Barra do Cuanza, Miradouro da Lua e [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:21:56]
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phys.org Much of what we understand about earthquakes is based on plate tectonics. But for residents of Utah’s seismically restless Wasatch Front, a 120-mile-long metropolitan region anchored by Salt [...]
Palaeoblog [22:17:00]
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(175 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous; BR,CA,DE
A stem acrodontan lizard in the Cretaceous of Brazil revises early lizard evolution in Gondwana. 2015. Nature Communications
University of Alberta paleontologists have discovered a new species of lizard, [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [20:39:55]
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The annual UGA Field Trip registration is open, and we would love to have you join us! This year Michael Vanden Berg and Doug Sprinkel will guide us through the spectacular geology of the Uinta Basin and the [...]
We've finished the Triceratops dig that I announced in my last blog post. We got pretty much everything from the rear of the neck to the back of the hips, minus the limbs. It looks like the specimen was well [...]
Ontario-geofish [16:11:00]
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(201 visits) category→science_technology Ordovician; CA
Here's where I make a bold statement: Plop down your house anywhere in the world, on solid rock, and your seismic risk of death is zero. Said with 95% confidence, a reasonable house, and 'solid rock' [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:26:31]
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After announcing earlier this week that we are sadly saying goodbye to the EGU network blog Between a Rock and Hard Place, the time has come to find a new blog to take their place. If you are an Earth, [...]
Reading Time: 1 minutesThe European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) interviewed me. It appears in the 2015 edition of their student newsletter. My fellow students already asked me about it [...]
Geology for Global Development [12:34:09]
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Our 3rd Annual Conference, with the theme Fighting Global Poverty – Geology and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) takes place on Friday 30th October, hosted by the Geological Society of London. [...]
Actinocrinites decadactylus TANNENBERG (Goldfuss, 1839: Tab. XXXI, Fig.
Neue JORC Schätzung bestätigt 1,77 Mio. Tonnen Erz mit 1,2% Kupfergehalt Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), deren größter
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(222 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; DE,US,PL
This is the last fossil that I am profiling from the Kalkberg formation for now. I'm very surprised at the number of species that I found from this formation considering that I have only visited it once and [...]
Cassini’s Final Breathtaking Close Views of DioneNASA Australia Shifts Investment From Wind to Other RenewablesEnergy Information Administration Drilling Deeper Water Wells Contributes To [...]
Acanthocrinus rex JÄKEL from the lower devonian Hunsrückschiefer of Caub am Rhein,
For those of you who have not been following our location through our interactive map (why not??!!?!), we’ve moved to our “expected 3rd” site [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:08:14]
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Kerlingafjöll volcano (no GVP profile) did have a earthquake today (25-August-2015). This was just one earthquake. Not of any special magnitude. Earthquakes are rare in Kerlingafjöll volcano and they [...]
In der Provinz Artvin im Nordosten der Türkei mit ihrer gleichnamigen Provinzhauptstadt ereigneten in den letzten Tagen extrem ergiebige Regenfälle. Die lokale Presse berichtet von mindestens 8 Todesopfern, [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:24:54]
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kuer.org Northern Utah is due for a major earthquake. Seismologists can’t predict exactly when the Big One might happen, but they have been looking at the hazards Utah is likely to face. READ
Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:17:50]
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(164 visits) category→science_technology Ordovician; US,CA
smithsonianmag.com The Book Cliffs in eastern Utah are named for caps of Cretaceous sandstone that look like shelves of books. The remote area is also rich in mineral, oil and gas deposits — a fact that has [...]
Scientists studied terraced craters on Mars and found an underground chunk of ice the size of California and Texas
Some evidence suggests that the glaciers on Mt. Shasta might have something to do with the location of a newly-spotted wolf pack in northern
The JOIDES Resolution is like some sort of elite dream-team, brought together with a single purpose: plundering the watery grave of time. But [...]
Commuters and others traveling in and around Nairobi often rely on an unofficial network of minibuses and minivans, called matatus, that have no centrally controlled schedules, fares or route plans. But a new [...]
Green Tea and Velociraptors [13:56:40]
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When you think about fossils, lizards might be not be one of the first groups that springs to mind. However, they do have a pretty neat fossil record, stretching back over 150 million years. One group of [...]
Barring a great big wall of water (tsunami), what will kill you is something falling on your head. The odds of getting killed in an earthquake are probably below that of getting hit by a bus, while drinking [...]
Actinocrinites decadactylus TANNENBERG (Goldfuss, 1839: Tab. XXXI, Fig.
Terminamos la entrada anterior con un ejemplo de la presencia de dinosaurios en las oníricas aventuras de Little Nemo. Sería precisamente esta serie el objeto del primer experimento animado (¡a todo color!) [...]
Neue JORC Schätzung bestätigt 1,77 Mio. Tonnen Erz mit 1,2% Kupfergehalt Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), deren größter
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [08:47:50]
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I really love the fact that physicists are sharing physics so widely online. There are some fabulous videos that will blow your mind, and teachers, you really consider spending some time in class watching [...]
Landslides in the Artvin area of NE Turkey have killed eight people and left two missing. One of the slides was captured in a dramatic
Acanthocrinus rex JÄKEL from the lower devonian Hunsrückschiefer of Caub am Rhein,
Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:51:14]
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onlyinyourstate.com We get pretty jaded here in Utah, surrounded by all these mountains. Go off to the midwest for awhile, then fly back into the state and you might have a newfound appreciation for just how [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:04:45]
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The image above shows the smoke from the wildfires burning across Washington, Oregon and Northern California. It is possible this smoke will reach the Eastern Seaboard, behind a late summer cool front that is [...]