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Tuesday, 06 October 2015

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New paper: Evolution of dilatant faults in the Canyonlands NP, Utah 

Paleoseismicity [23:54:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (232 visits) info
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 US,GB
The Canyonlands National Park, Utah, is famous for its beautiful landscape and spectacular landforms. For many geoscientists it is also well-known as a sandstone reservoir analogue and as a tourist you’ll often run into groups of geologists on field trips. It’s a matter of debate how and how fast the beautiful grabens in the Needles Fault zone formed – these are large arcuate canyons several tens of kilometres in length, paralleling the Colorado River. In a new paper we

New sauropodoramas: Stormy brachiosaurs! Apatosaurine brontosmash! 

markwitton.com blog [23:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
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 Cretaceous,Jurassic
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Realising that Recreating an Age of Reptiles was a bit light on sauropod art, I've been beavering away on two additional sauropodoramas* to pad things out a bit. I thought I'd share them here.*Sauropods are such special animals that they deserve their own nomenclature for most things, including artwork. See, for another example, 'shards of excellence'.The first is a reworking of a 2013 image of the Wealden (probable) brachiosaur Pelorosaurus conybeari in hammering wind and rain. We know that [...]

Earth Science Week 2015 in full swing! 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:20:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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 US
Earth Science Week is in full swing at the Utah Geological Survey this week. Who else has Earth Science Week

DPG gratuliert Takaaki Kajita und Arthur B. McDonald zum Physik-Nobelpreis 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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 AU,CA,JP
     Zusammen mit Physikerinnen und Physikern der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft verfolgten zahlreiche Medienvertreter im Magnus-Haus Berlin live die Bekanntgabe aus Stockholm.Die Deutsche [...]

Rütteln am Kristallgitter: Forscher messen erstmals schwache Restbewegung in Proteinkristallen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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Die Röntgenkristallographie enthüllt die komplexen dreidimensionalen Strukturen winziger Proteinmoleküle. So ermöglicht sie Forschern, die Funktionsweise der Proteine zu verstehen – eine wichtige [...]

More Pictures of Dinosaur Sculptures Amongst the Cycads in Kirstenbosch Gardens 

Georneys [22:01:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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 ZA
For my “Monday Geology Picture” post yesterday I shared a picture of  a dinosaur sculpture that is currently on display at Kirstenbosch Gardens here in Cape Town, South Africa. This sculpture is [...]

From Rittman to Apple Creek 

Wooster Geologists [20:45:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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 US
Geomorphology (Geology 300) has been taking advantage of the good weather this Fall traveling in the area. Above the full class stands on a point bar of the Apple Creek. Waves go out to Brian Merritt who [...]

Neutrino Nobel Prize - Sixty Symbols 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [19:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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Allodaposuchus hulki, un nuevo "cocodrilo" del final del Cretácico 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [17:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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Un equipo de investigadores del Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont y la Universidad de Barcelona describen en un trabajo publicado en la revista PeerJ una nueva especie de cocodrilo del [...]

Can you spot the contact? 

Mountain Beltway [15:29:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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There’s a formational contact in this photo, and for many years, I misplaced it completely. Let’s see how well you do: can you spot it? Submit your answers by downloading the photo (right click; [...]

Geology Photo of the Week #48 

GeoSphere [13:44:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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This edition of the photo of the approximate week (plus or minus 1 – sorry for my tardiness) is very cool in that it shows when earth processes that are invisible suddenly become very visible.... [[ [...]

Climate change is coming to a place near you 

Real Climate [10:51:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
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What are the local consequences of a continued global warming? And what kind of future climate can you expect for you children? Do we expect more extreme events, and will a global warming affect the statistics [...]

Variadito XIV 

Koprolitos [09:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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Protestors Cause Geotechnical Work to Shutdown for Sydney WestConnex Project 

GeoPrac.net [08:34:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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 AU
Police were called out to one geotechnical investigation site in metro Sydney, Australia last week after residents unhappy with the proposed WestConnex project entered the work site. The crew abandoned [...]

Incredible Rainfall In South Carolina, and Yes Climate Played A Role 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:25:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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 Ordovician; US,CA
Make no mistake, this was a flood event unlike any other in South Carolina and while Hurricane Joaquin never hit the coast, it holds a smoking gun. This flood was the result of several factors, an upper level [...]

Monday Geology Picture: A Dinosaur in a Botanical Garden 

Georneys [00:19:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
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 ZA
This week’s Monday Geology Picture features a dinosaur in a botanical garden. Specifically, it features a giant metal sculpture of a dinosaur that is part of an exhibit in Kirstenbosch Gardens here in [...]

Data From Alaska’s Lake Peters Will Inform Climate Models 

Lake Scientist [22:33:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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Climate modeling is hard. But perhaps more daunting is work to make the models more accurate. From deep-sea expeditions to high-altitude flights, scientists can go almost anywhere, gather data and[...] The [...]

34 Kilometer Neuland - neuer Meteoritenkrater in Saudi-Arabien entdeckt 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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 SA
     Der Geologe Thomas Kenkmann hat zusammen mit einer Erdölfirma einen Meteoritenkrater in Saudi-Arabien entdeckt Neuland in der Wüste: Der Freiburger Geologe Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann und [...]

Two Incredible Images 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:06:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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 FI
These two images speak for themselves. One is from the Suomi satellite, which can take images of the Earth lit by moonlight alone. and the second image needs little or no

Visit Savage Garden for a glimpse at some of nature’s nastiest plants 

BEYONDbones [21:42:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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In case you thought plants were not much more alive than a rock, think again! As David Attenborough pointed out in his wonderful series, The Private Life of Plants, plants have many behaviors as complex and [...]

My most depressing paper 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [19:58:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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I have a new preprint up at PeerJ (Taylor 2015), and have also submitted it simultaneously for peer review. In a sense, it’s not a paper I am happy about, as its title explains: “Almost all known [...]

Mystery object found on the Bath GS Manor Farm trip 

Geology in the West Country [18:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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 Triassic; GB
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The object above was found at Borrow Pit, Manor Farm, Aust - a Triassic mystery.  An expert's opinion is as follows:-"My interpretation of this is that it lacks the symmetry and detail to be a fossil [...]

Rock slab stabilized at Glen Canyon Dam 

Arizona Geology [17:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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 Jurassic; US
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The 250-ton slab of Navajo Sandstone peeling off the south wall of the canyon at Glen Canyon dam has been bolted into place to prevent it from falling on to power plant facilities immediately below (bottom [...]

Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, a multidisciplinary soil scientist 

G-Soil [14:43:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
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 DE,FR,US
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Chair of Soil Science Technical University of Munich The 2015 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to Ingrid Kögel-Knabner for her fundamental and ground-breaking work on the dynamics [...]

Ozone destroyer drops mysteriously 

AGU Meetings [11:05:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
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By Larry O’Hanlon Something strange has happened to the atmospheric concentration of a newly discovered, human-made, ozone-destroying gas: it has suddenly dropped and nobody knows why. The gas, [...]

Conferencia y gymkana entre las actividades de la IV Marcha Demandasaurus (Salas de los Infantes) 

Tierra de Dinosaurios [09:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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Con motivo de la IV Marcha Demandasaurus y el I Trail por etapas Tierra de Dinosaurios se han organizado un par de actividades paleontológicas.  -Domingo 11 octubre. Gymkana. Edad 6-12 años. Plazas 20. [...]

Faulting, Volcanism, and Life in Northernmost California: the Tulelake Graben 

Geotripper [09:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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 CH,US
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Gillem's Bluff at Lava Beds National Monument Lava Beds National Monument at the extreme north end of California is a fascinating place. It preserves hundreds of lava tubes and lava flows only a few thousand [...]

Site Characterization Services: Step 3 Field Exploration 

GeoPrac.net [08:32:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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Another in the series of excellent videos by Terracon. This video addresses the field exploration techniques they use. [Source: Terracon YouTube Channel. Image:

Spectacular Geology: Amazing Photos of the American Southwest 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:33:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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 US,
A spectacular look at the geology in southern Utah—a lasting display of nature’s effect on rock. livescience.com Southwest of Moab, Utah, is an area of the American Southwest that is truly a showcase [...]
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