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Wednesday, 26 August 2015

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs! The 1987 Childcraft Annual - Part 2 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [23:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info
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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 [...]

Expedição 2015 no Triângulo Mineiro, Brasil 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [23:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (220 visits) info
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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 [...]

Geology of the National Parks in Pictures - Rocky Mountain NP 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [23:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (273 visits) info
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 IN
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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 [...]

Expedição 2015 a Angola 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [22:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (228 visits) info
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 AO,CD
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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 [...]

Rolling in the deep: Mantle flow stress best indicator of US intermountain seismicity 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:21:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Gueragama sulamericana, New Lizard from the Cretaceous of Brazil 

Palaeoblog [22:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; BR,CA,DE
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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, [...]

2015 Annual UGA Field Trip announced!! 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [20:39:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Digging the middle half of a Triceratops 

RMDRC paleo lab [19:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (230 visits) info
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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 [...]

Earthquake Primers - What kills you - Part 2 

Ontario-geofish [16:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info
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 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' [...]

Join the EGU Blog Network! 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:26:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (218 visits) info
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 GB,
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, [...]

My Interview with the EAGE about the Way of the Geophysicist 

The Way of the Geophysicist [13:52:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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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 [...]

GfGD Annual Conference 2015 – Speaker Introductions (Session 1) 

Geology for Global Development [12:34:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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 GB
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.... 

geo-ebooks [12:00:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info

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Actinocrinites decadactylus TANNENBERG (Goldfuss, 1839: Tab. XXXI, Fig.

Deutsche Rohstoff AG: Hammer Metals erhöht Kupferressource des Teilgebietes „Overlander“ um 53% 

Rohstoff Blog [09:04:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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Neue JORC Schätzung bestätigt 1,77 Mio. Tonnen Erz mit 1,2% Kupfergehalt Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), deren größter

Coelospira concava or Atrypina imbricata brachiopod from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (222 visits) info
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 Devonian; DE,US,PL
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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 [...]

August 26, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
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 PT,AU
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... 

geo-ebooks [06:00:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (195 visits) info
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Acanthocrinus rex JÄKEL from the lower devonian Hunsrückschiefer of Caub am Rhein,

Location, location, location. 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [05:00:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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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 [...]

Earthquake in Kerlingafjöll volcano 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:08:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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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 [...]

Erdrutsche in der Provinz Artvin, Türkei (Video) 

Mente et Malleo [23:02:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
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 TR
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, [...]

Earthquake Scenario Aimed at Promoting Preparedness 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:24:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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 US
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 Has the First Tar Sands Mine in the U.S. 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:17:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Terraced craters: Windows into Mars’ icy past 

AGU Meetings [20:47:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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 US
Scientists studied terraced craters on Mars and found an underground chunk of ice the size of California and Texas

How Climate Influences Wolf Recovery in California 

State of the Planet [20:06:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (204 visits) info
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 US
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

Forams for Discussion 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [18:31:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (688 visits) info
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 US
The JOIDES Resolution is like some sort of elite  dream-team, brought together with a single purpose: plundering the watery grave of time. But [...]

Map App Helps People Track Transit in Nairobi 

State of the Planet [15:39:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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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 [...]

Lizard lizard on the wall 

Green Tea and Velociraptors [13:56:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; BR,MG,
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 [...]

Earthquake Primers - What kills you - Part 1 

Ontario-geofish [13:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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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.... 

geo-ebooks [12:00:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
Actinocrinites decadactylus TANNENBERG (Goldfuss, 1839: Tab. XXXI, Fig.

Windsor McCay: Resucitando a los dinosaurios (y II) 

Koprolitos [10:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
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 GB,US,MX,FI
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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!) [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff AG: Hammer Metals erhöht Kupferressource des Teilgebietes „Overlander“ um 53% 

Rohstoff Blog [09:04:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
Neue JORC Schätzung bestätigt 1,77 Mio. Tonnen Erz mit 1,2% Kupfergehalt Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), deren größter

Four Physics Videos Everyone Should Watch 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [08:47:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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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 [...]

Artvin, Turkey: an excellent video of a landslide in action 

The Landslide Blog [08:00:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (184 visits) info
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 TR,NE
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... 

geo-ebooks [06:00:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
Acanthocrinus rex JÄKEL from the lower devonian Hunsrückschiefer of Caub am Rhein,

These 20 Epic Mountains in Utah Will Drop Your Jaw 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:51:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Smoke From Western Fires Spreads Across the U.S. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:04:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
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 CA,US
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 [...]
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