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Wednesday, 14 October 2015

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Jupiter's Red Spot is shrinking!! 

Geology in Motion [23:45:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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Comparison of Jupiter's Red Spotwith Earth. Image fromhttp://startswithabang.com/?p=1553After a 2-month hiatus, I'm going to work my way back into regular posting. But will start in a very lazy way by referring you to a really cool video here, a new NASA time-lapse portrait of Jupiter!      Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System with an equatorial radius of about 11 times that of the Earth, and about 1/10 of the radius of the sun.  It is a gassy planet, and [...]

Field work in Kyrgyzstan 

Earthquakes without Frontiers [23:42:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (41 visits) info
In June 2015 an EwF team of UK and Kyrgyz scientists went to Kyrgyzstan to conduct field work in the Suusamyr valley. An earthquake of magnitude MS7.3 happened there in 1992, leaving more than 70 people dead. Several aftershocks exceeded magnitude 6. This thrust earthquake is interesting because it ... The post Field work in Kyrgyzstan appeared first on Earthquakes without Frontiers.

National Monument bill aimed at preventing mining in northern Arizona 

Arizona Geology [23:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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 Tucson congressman Raul Grijalva introduced legislation to put 1.7 million acres in northern Arizona off limit to mineral exploration and mining by creating the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National [...]

Seismic hazards of Santa Rita fault in southeast Arizona 

Arizona Geology [23:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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Dr. Phil Pearthree and Dr. Mike Conway at AZGS describe the Santa Rita Fault below the western flank of the Santa Rita Mountains, south of Tucson, Arizona in this short documentary film posted on YouTube. [...]

Körpertemperatur von Dinosauriern mit neuem chemischen Thermometer an Eischalen gemessen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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     Körpertemperatur bei dem vogelähnlichen Oviraptor betrug 32 Grad Celsius – Hinweis auf andere Strategie zur Thermoregulation als bei heutigen Vögeln Vögel und Säugetiere sind in der Lage, [...]

Invitation to participate in a PhD research project on climate blogging 

James’ Empty Blog [21:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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Posted at the request of Giorgos. Seems sane enough to me and I've already participated as a blogger. Further enquiries direct to him please. ---  My name is Giorgos Zoukas and I am a second-year PhD [...]

Sports Science: Pitching! 

BEYONDbones [18:33:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
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We, as a nation, love applied physics. If anything, that’s all that sports are. With the Houston Astros on the brink of advancing further in the 2015 Major League Baseball playoffs, take a look at this [...]

Exp 359. 14thOct. Toujours en transit vers les Maldives 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [17:32:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info

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14 Octobre : Surprise !! A  rainy day !juste une petite couverture nuageuse, une lumière crue et des petites gouttes sur un fond de [...]

New research shows impacts from comets or asteroids could have created Europa’s chaos terrain 

AGU Meetings [16:18:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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What began as Williams College students requesting a new course on planets and moons nearly 12 years ago has now culminated in a new research paper showing that impactors, such as comets or asteroids, can [...]

Three virtues of a Geophysicist 

The Way of the Geophysicist [14:00:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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Reading Time: 1 minutes Don’t forget the three virtues of a geophysicist. True love True friendship True amplitudes See the full article here The post Three virtues of a Geophysicist appeared first on [...]

Pani, Pani everywhere 

State of the Planet [13:46:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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Heading out our field area we discovered that the abandoned river valley we planned to study was completely flooded. There was pani – the Bangla word for water – everywhere. The abandoned valley is still [...]

Investigadores da SHN apresentam novos restos de Dryosauridae no XIII Annual Meeting da European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologist (EAVP) em Opole (Polónia) 

ALT-SOCIEDADE DE HISTÓRIA NATURAL [10:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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Já vão alguns meses, mas não poderíamos deixar de dar constância à presença do investigador da Sociedade de História Natural e do Grupo Biología Evolutiva, Fernando Escaso, no XIII Annual Meeting da [...]

Petrified Wood Fossil Suiseki 水石 

Louisville Area Fossils [04:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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Suiseki is the Japanese technique of rock appreciation. This specimen is a piece of a fossil wood on a Daizan (wood base).  Learn more on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suiseki Here are some more [...]

National Fossil Day is Tomorrow! Do You Know the Paleontological Heritage of Your Region? 

Geotripper [01:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
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A hadrosaur skull similar to Saurolophus, the first dinosaur ever found in California Tomorrow is National Fossil Day, which if anything, is of far greater interest than a holiday concerning an Italian [...]

The Hubble Telescope View of Jupiter is Amazing 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:32:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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From NASA: New imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter. High-resolution maps and spinning globes (rendered in the 4k Ultra HD format) are the first [...]

Duck, cover, and hold on during Great Arizona Shakeout 

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Research Summary: High Abundances Of Potentially Active Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria And Archaea In Oligotrophic, High-Altitude Lakes Of The Sierra Nevada 

Lake Scientist [21:41:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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1Life and Environmental Sciences and Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America Abstract Nitrification plays a central role in the nitrogen [...]

Born This Day: Jack Arnold 

Palaeoblog [18:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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Jack Arnold (Oct. 14, 1916 - March 17, 1992) directed a number of classic SF films including The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and It Came From Outer [...]

The Dark Universe - with Adam Riess 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
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UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 

Geology for Global Development [16:39:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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GfGD has been invited to join as an organising partner for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015-2030. This very [...]

Exp 359. 14thOct. always in transit. 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [15:53:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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Equator is no more very far; we have had the first "rainy" morning and a  hot and humid day. read

Three virtues of a Geophysicist 

The Way of the Geophysicist [14:00:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
Don’t forget the three virtues of a geophysicist. True love True friendship True amplitudes See the full article hereThe post Three virtues of a Geophysicist appeared first on The Way of the [...]

Cruising the Mediterranean: a first-hand account of a month at sea – Part 1 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:30:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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Simona Aracri, a PhD student at University of Southampton, spent a month aboard the research vessel, R/V Minerva Uno, cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Simona and the team of scientists aboard the boat [...]

La Prehistoria según Brad Albright 

Koprolitos [09:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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El estadounidense Brad Albright es un artista multidisciplinar que ha trabajado para multitud de compañías relacionadas con el mundo de la música, la publicidad y el entretenimiento. Obtuvo su Master de [...]

Denny Hill Humor 

New Stories in Stone [01:44:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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During my research on Denny Hill, I was delighted to find several cartoons about the hill. The first two were in the Seattle Times. The third one, I found in a folder with no information on its original [...]

Born This Day: Sir John William Dawson 

Palaeoblog [01:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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Dawson (Oct. 13, 1820 - Nov. 20, 1899>) was a Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowledge of Canadian geology. Dawson was born and raised in Pictou, Nova [...]
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