On September 24, 2015, the federal Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) published a Notice of Proposed Withdrawal (“BLM notice”), proposing to withdraw from mineral location and entry federal lands identified as “sagebrush focal areas” in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. The BLM notice commences a two-year temporary segregation period, prohibiting location and entry … Continue
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [22:43:00]
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(150 visits) category→arts_entertainment SE,BE,GB
Not for the first time, here's a fantastic 1970s book on prehistoric animals from Purnell, purveyors of fine model photography and anachronistic pop-up battles. Find Out About Prehistoric Animals is [...]
Name: Kimbetopsalis simmonsae Meaning: “Simmon’s cutting shears of Kimbeto Wash” in recognition of mammal paleontologist Nancy Simmons, the
ALT-SOCIEDADE DE HISTÓRIA NATURAL [19:19:00]
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(155 visits) category→recreation Jurassic
Decorreu de 23 a 27 de setembro, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal em Lisboa, o I Congresso Internacional "As Aves na História Natural, na Pré-História e na História (Origem, Evolução e [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:00:42]
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(269 visits) category→recreation US,CN,ES,IT
In this week’s Imaggeo on Monday’s image an almost Martian looking landscape, with ombre coloured soils, gives way to gently rolling hills, covered in luscious woods and vegetation. Were it not for the [...]
'Playground planets' models the relative sizes of the planets and their distances from the Sun.
One of our readers has sent us a video clip which puts the distances into perspective. Click here to view.
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JOIDES Resolution blogs [12:47:02]
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ça y est ! le Joides a pris la mer à midi.
Tout le monde sur le pont pour voir Darwin s'éloigner. Grand moment !!
Vers 1h retour vers les [...]
Duplicty: a tool providing encrypted backupPaul Roshchin es un diseñador gráfico de San Petersburgo (Rusia) que trabaja para la compañía de telecomunicaciones Selectel. En los últimos años ha venido [...]
Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! Lecture – American Intelligence, The History And [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [01:50:45]
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This is going to be a short article since I don’t have a time to write a long one. The glacier flood from Skaftárkatlar cauldrons is mostly over. There continues to be a lot of water in rivers … [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [20:00:00]
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Decorreu de 23 a 27 de setembro, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal em Lisboa, o I Congresso Internacional "As Aves na História Natural, na Pré-História e na História (Origem, Evolução e [...]
Tutankhamun has been in the news again, following online publication of Nicholas Reeves’s article that suggests that Tut’s tomb may still be keeping a very big secret: the burial of the king who ruled [...]
From October 6-16, 2015, the Atomic Photographers Guild will stage an exhibition at the Old Bank of Japan, Hiroshima Branch. The building survived the atomic bombing in 1945 and is presently the site of an [...]
Mountain Beltway [14:12:22]
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(145 visits) category→science_technology Silurian,Ordovician; US
Route 33 in Pendleton County, West Virginia cuts across the lower Paleozoic stratigraphic section. I went there this past spring on a sedimentology and stratigraphy field trip with the GMU sed/strat class. The [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [13:59:00]
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) seeks an Assistant Collections Manager (ACM) in Invertebrate Paleontology for 2 years of an NSF-awarded multi-institutional collections digitization [...]
The main thing that keeps us Northern people warm are the giant oceanic plumes like the Gulf Stream.
We are lucky by plate tectonics that there is a perfect ramp with South America deflecting the warm [...]
In a just published paper, Zhang et al. 2015 describe the emergency works undertaken to mitigate the seismically triggered landslide dam at Honshiyan, Yunnan in China in
It's a beautiful place, really. It was one of the most serene places I've been in my travels, away from busy roads, cities, tourist traps, and most of all, crowds. We were only 10 miles from Yosemite National [...]
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Here at the way of the geophysicist. We love neologisms. How do you like this one? The Story of Sisyphus Sisyphus is a figure from Greek mythology. He was a pretty smart fellow, [...]