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Thursday, 03 September 2015
Canada’s Last Epishelf Lake
When meltwater flowing off a glacier is trapped behind a floating ice shelf, it forms what are called epishelf lakes. These are mostly found in Antarctica nowadays, as the ones[...] The post Canada’s Last Epishelf Lake appeared first on LakeHitching Posts and Stepping Stones
Back in the day when horsepower referred to equine engines, many homes around Seattle had hitching posts and stepping stones. Very few of these remain. In fact, I know of only one stepping stone, the place where you would step out of your carriage and onto a raised block of stone. That one is on … Continue reading Hitching Posts and SteppingBack to Seymour, Back in Time: Part Two — Bringing back a city
The visit to our active digs at the Craddock Ranch red beds exhausted Kelly and I, but it was fascinating to learn how the Houston Museum of Natural Science discovers, jackets and moves its Permian fossils to [...]Join the Club – How Ankylosaurs Evolved Their Formidable Tails
Everyone knows Ankylosaurus. It’s the epitome of the titular group of highly-armored herbivores to which it belonged, and1964 NY World's Fair Mold-a-Rama Dinosaurs
El Nino still stuck
Li'l Ghost meets Droppy
What Dr Shepherd Said…
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [08:13:12]
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Meteorologists, and climate researchers, meet a lot of folks who live on the left side of the diagram above. Click the image below to read this “spot on” commentary by Dr. Marshal Shepherd, who is [...]
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Mining and ag industries in Arizona file suit over EPA rule on 'waters of the United States'
expired sunscreen use
As I mentioned a while back, I use a ton of sunscreen. I am also a bit scatterbrained and tend to lose things like sunscreen, so over the years, I have bought and squirreled away innumerable bottles of both [...]Dramatic videos of Gold King Mine spill released by EPA
GPX overview: An R function to create an overview of your .gpx files (using leaflet and RgoogleMaps)
Why GPX? For what? It's convenient to record tracks of your hiking/field trips with the GPS of your smartphone, tablet or just GPS as .gpx files. You can use them to georeference your pictures (for example [...]New research calls for rethinking of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault
New research could prompt a shift in thinking about New Zealand's AlpinePlacopecten clintonius pelecypod from the Yorktown formation of Virginia
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Just write the Archbishop description already!
Here I am at SVPCA in 2015. I am haunted by the fact that ten years ago at SVPCA 2005, I gave a talk about the NHM’s Tendaguru brachiosaurid, NHMUK R5937. And the description is still not done and [...]September 3, 2015
NASA’s Next Horizon in SpaceThe New York Times Why Many Native Alaskans Support Arctic DrillingBloomberg Business Wind Power in Alaska is Taking OffEnergy Information Administration Hawaii Governor Dumps Oil [...]Devonian Sponge Fossil
Louisville Area Fossils [03:00:00]
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