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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

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Seismologists See Salt Lake City Future Disaster by Reading the Dirt 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:05:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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If you missed it a couple of weeks ago, here is an article outlining the paleoseismic study some of our UGS geologists helped with on a trench. nextcity.org Not far from I-215 in Salt Lake City, near the airport, a deep trench cuts through the earth. Though it looks like a sewer repair project, there’s

Fighting apatosaur art #6: the ones that got away 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [10:14:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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Here’s the last post (at least for now) in the Fighting Apatosaur Art series — and we’re back to Brian Engh, who we started with. Early in the process of putting together artwork to illustrate our apatosaur neck combat hypothesis, Brian tried out a whole bunch of outlandish concepts. Here are two that he showed

Gulf Stream ring water intrudes onto continental shelf Like “Pinocchio’s Nose” 

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Ocean robots installed off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters of the continental shelf exchange. The [...]

Research Abstract: Metagenomic Investigation Of Viral Communities In Ballast Water 

Lake Scientist [19:56:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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Ballast water is one of the most important vectors for the transport of non-native species to new aquatic environments. Due to the development of new ballast water quality standards for[...] The post Research [...]

GfGD Annual Conference – Speaker Introductions (Session 3) 

Geology for Global Development [11:37:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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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 [...]

New duck-billed, plant eating dinosaur 

Geology in the West Country [12:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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Born This Day: Charles Lapworth 

Palaeoblog [15:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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Lapworth (Sept. 30, 1842 - March 13, 1920) was an English geologist who proposed what came to be called the Ordovician period (505 to 438 million years old) of geologic strata. Lapworth is famous for his work [...]

La dura vida laboral de los tiranosaurios 

Koprolitos [08:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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My Neighbour T-Rex (Briana "eightbreeze")Ser un tiranosaurio en nuestros días no debe ser fácil. Dejando a un lado la constante mofa relacionada con el pequeño tamaño de sus brazos, estos enormes [...]

Pterosaur From The Valley of Gwangi 

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Joaquin? There’s No Perfect Forecast, So Stay Tuned 

State of the Planet [19:02:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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What will Hurricane Joaquin do? The science of predicting that is getting better, but still uncertain. The debate today is over whether there will be a U.S. landfall now in five or more days’ time or not; 30 [...]

Legend of the Peg Elves: Boy Scout Overnights offer a glimpse into museum folklore 

BEYONDbones [13:00:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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The lights in the Morian Hall of Paleontology brighten and illuminate the Tyrannosaurus rex. The immersive soundscape in The Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife comes to life. The periodic table powers on in the [...]

“Spiral disaster”. Kebakaran Gambut – Bencana yg berulang 

Dogeng Geology [04:28:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
“Spiral disaster” Kalau dirunut awalnya ada usaha mulia untuk mengkonversi lahan gambut yg tidak bernilai ekonomis untuk diubah menjadi lahan pertanian/perkebunan. Salah satunya dg membuat [...]

Finding a Thesis: Klondyke District 

Looking for Detachment [19:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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Some of you might remember, back in the distant past of this blog, a time when I was on my seemingly endless thesis-hunting journey, and I was just about to leave Belmont, the silver mining district and [...]

A journey into the Cordon Caulle volcano 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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There is no escaping the fact that one of the perks of being an Earth scientist is the opportunity to visit incredible places while on field work. There is also no doubt that, geologist or not, walking on an [...]

Good lectures - October 1st and October 7th 

Geology in the West Country [12:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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October 1stA Bug’s Life: The role of micropalaeontology in industrial problem solvingProfessor Malcolm Hart, Emeritus Professor of Micropalaeontology at the University of PlymouthMicropalaeontology is the [...]

POTD September 29, 2015: Chocolate Drops, Maze District of Canyonlands National Park, Wayne County, Utah 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:08:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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Fall is upon us and October is just around the corner. If there were a Pumpkin Spice Geology, maybe it would look a little like this photo. What do you think? We’re in the Fall spirit here at the UGS! [...]

Build a Common Reflection Surface Workflow in 6 easy steps 

The Way of the Geophysicist [20:22:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article aims to be an in-depth article about building a workflow suited for proper use of the Common Reflection Surface. This resource is aimed at a specialist audience, however [...]

VIEJOS AMIGOS 

episcophagus [00:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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El sol es abrasador. Como siempre. Los pasos del anciano levantan polvo. Arrastra los pies y ellos arrastran su corpachón. Una vez fue robusto pero ahora, aunque grande, no lo parece, hasta tal punto camina [...]

Rockfall and landslide damage in the Port Hills from the Christchurch earthquake sequence 

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Demolition has started of properties damaged by landslides in the Port Hills area of Christchurch during the 2010-2011 earthquakes. This post shows some of the photographs that I took shortly

Erloschene Tiefseevulkane als Erdbebenstopper 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [23:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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     Im Norden Chiles erwarten Experten schon länger eines der nächsten Mega-Erdbeben. Doch als im Frühjahr 2014 in der nordchilenischen Stadt Iquique die Erde schwankte, waren Stärke und räumliche [...]

Debuted This Day (1960): The Flintstones 

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Read about Alan Reed, the voice of Fred
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