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
markwitton.com blog [23:35:00]
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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 [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:20:49]
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Earth Science Week is in full swing at the Utah Geological Survey this week. Who else has Earth Science Week
Zusammen mit Physikerinnen und Physikern der Deutschen
Physikalischen Gesellschaft verfolgten zahlreiche Medienvertreter im
Magnus-Haus Berlin live die Bekanntgabe aus Stockholm.Die Deutsche [...]
Die Röntgenkristallographie enthüllt die komplexen
dreidimensionalen Strukturen winziger Proteinmoleküle. So ermöglicht sie
Forschern, die Funktionsweise der Proteine zu verstehen – eine wichtige
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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 [...]
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 [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [17:42:00]
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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 [...]
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; [...]
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....
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [19:58:30]
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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 [...]
Geology in the West Country [18:51:00]
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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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Another in the series of excellent videos by Terracon. This video addresses the field exploration techniques they use. [Source: Terracon YouTube Channel. Image:
Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:33:06]
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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 [...]