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Saturday, 29 August 2015
It's a little hard to tell how smoky it is from this picture, until you realize that Lassen Peak, the central feature of the Lassen Volcanic Center and Lassen Volcanic National Park, should be easily visible just to the left of the distant part of the highway. Here's what this same view looks like on Google Street View (or see the next-to-last photo of this post).
Yes, it's been very smoky
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [19:42:43]
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(203 visits) category→recreation DK
I did notice that older code that I had been using for regular donations into my Danish Paypal account was not correctly set-up. It was suppose to expire after 12 months, due to my mistake it was set … [...]
Look at this. As an abstract pattern, it looks like something Gustav Klimt might paint. View Larger Map But drill down into it in more detail and it changes into an uncomfortably close view of a reptiles skin. [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [14:57:00]
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(202 visits) category→science_technology
Un nuevo artículo, que acaba de ser publicado en la revista Comptes Rendus Palevol, presenta un caparazón de tortuga procedente del Jurásico Superior (Kimmeridgiense) de la localidad inglesa de Abingfon [...]
I have a mystery for you today: These are samples of Tonoloway Formation carbonate (not sure if it’s limestone or dolostone in retrospect), with bedding more or less horizontal in these images, and a few [...]
On Thursday a significant rockfall occurred on the Tour Ronde in the Mont Blanc region. It was captured in a dramatic video by Gianluca Marra, a local climbing
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Louisville Area Fossils [00:01:00]
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(282 visits) category→recreation Carboniferous; US
These pictures show a crinoid stem fossil partially covered by bryozoan. What makes it interesting are the small tube like holdfasts that the bryozoans used to anchor to the crinoid stem. It was found in the [...]
Gyrations of a topsy-turvy world
Could spur migration of the cryosphere
No snowball Earth, just poles and tropics whorled
The data which support this are unclear.
Precambrian magnetic fields suggest
That [...]
Name: Pulanesaura eocollum Meaning: Pulanesaura is a combination of Sesotho and Latin meaning “rain-maker lizard”, while eocollum means
Palaeodiversity and formation counts: redundancy or bias?. 2015. M. Benton, Palaeontology.
In a new study published this week, Professor Mike Benton has explored how knowledge about dinosaurs has accumulated [...]
JOIDES Resolution blogs [08:52:30]
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(256 visits) category→science_technology AU
It takes an incredible amount of money and effort to retrieve a sediment core from below the sea. So we make sure we squeeze them for every last drop [...]
Readers with short attention spans who waste too much time on social media may have noticed that Brian Romans
has been complaining over on twitter about the hardrock/ softrock divide. This
being a blog, I will [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:17:07]
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(277 visits) category→recreation Jurassic; US,BR
Another weekend already?? Well we’re not complaining! Who’s got plans to get out into Utah geology this weekend? Capitol Reef National Park, Wayne County, Utah Photographer: Adam McKean Erosion [...]
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