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Monday, 09 November 2015

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Nuevos restos de plesiosaurio del Barremiense ibérico 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [23:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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Recientemente nuestros aragosaureros Jara Parrilla y José Ignacio Canudo acaban de publicar la descripción de los restos vertebrales y dientes pertenecientes a plesiosaurios del Barremiense español. Se ha publicado en la prestigiosa revista alemana Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen documentado la presencia de estos “reptiles” marinos en rocas de 129 millones de años de nuestro país y de Aragón.Los plesiosaurios fueron un grupo de “reptiles” acuáticos, [...]

Mt. Cook National Park, South Island New Zealand 

Earthly Musings [10:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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One of New Zealand's most iconic natural treasures is Mt. Cook National Park, located in the Southern Alps southwest of Christchurch. The area has been in the consciousness of the Kiwi's since the 1880's when the 12,214 foot peak was first climbed. The Hermitage Hotel was built a few years later and excursions to the park have continued since.Leaving Christchurch across the Canterbury Plains, the landscape soon gave way to our first view of the Southern Alps, still snow and ice clad in this [...]

The final days of sub-400 ppm carbon dioxide 

Mountain Beltway [21:44:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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This is probably the last week our planet's atmosphere will have less than 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide. When are we going to stop letting this heat-trapping waste gas pile up in our

Green infrastructure research featured on Kent Wired 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [22:44:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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Kent Wired, the electronic version of Kent State University’s student media, ran a story on Saturday about the work Kimm Jarden and I have been doing on the effectiveness of green infrastructure [...]

Erosion - questions you can ask at any rock face 

Earth Learning Idea [17:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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Today's new ELI is 'Question you can ask at any rock face 2: erosion'. Erosion is ‘The removal of solid material, by gravity, water, wind or ice’ and so is the beginning of transportation. Take your pupils [...]

Baby Dinosaurs Hatched Into a World of Danger 

Laelaps [13:00:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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Only the luckiest Maiasaura survived their first

It really hurts [comic] 

The Way of the Geophysicist [11:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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 Ordovician; CA
Reading Time: 1 minutes Everybody always says, “What’s the deal, man? It’s not like paper actually hurts you when you get beat.” But, it DOES hurt!. It does! The post It really hurts [...]

Mighty Bones: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [23:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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Berlin's a fascinating city and all, drawing people for its rich, tumultuous history as much as its present-day reputation for 'cool' (whatever that is. Like I'd know). But in the end, dinosaur enthusiasts [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Icy seasmoke 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:28:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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Today’s Imaggeo on Mondays image captures the eerie mood at Halifax Harbour, in Nova Scotia, Canada, on a sunny early morning. “The photograph captures rather unusual seasmoke surrounding a local commuter [...]

Carl Sagan Day 2015 

Mente et Malleo [01:00:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Heute hätte einer meiner Kindheitshelden, Carl Sagan, Geburtstag gehabt. Und aus diesem Grund und zu seinen Ehren wird auch dieses Jahr der Carl Sagan Tag begangen. Carl Sagan war nicht nur ein guter und vor [...]

Marginifera lasallensis Brachiopod Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [04:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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These pictures appear to be a Marginifera lasallensis brachiopod fossil. It was found in the Lenepah Formation of Nowata County, Oklahoma USA. It dates to the Pennsylvanian

Kunst & Geologie: Die Pracht der Steine 

Geschichte der Geologie [21:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
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Ursprünglich bezeichnete eine Daktyliothek eine Sammlung von Fingerringen, diese Bedeutung wurde aber vor allem in der Renaissance auch auf Sammlungen von geschnittenen Steinen, wie Gemmen und Kameen, [...]

It really hurts [comic] 

The Way of the Geophysicist [11:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (53 visits) info
Everybody always says, “What’s the deal, man? It’s not like paper actually hurts you when you get beat.” But, it DOES hurt!. It does!The post It really hurts [comic] appeared first on [...]

Paris 2015: The Starfish Mouth in Abstract 

Echinoblog [23:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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                           Bonjour and Greetings! My apologies for missing a post last week! I am currently on a research visit at the world famous Museum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris! [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 11/9-11/15 

BEYONDbones [03:00:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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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 – The Fastest Evolving Regions of the [...]

Tamu Massif: Closing thoughts from Chief Scientist Dr. William Sager 

AGU Meetings [16:52:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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This is the last post in a series of dispatches from scientists and education officers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor. The crew was on a 36-day research trip to study Tamu Massif, a massive [...]

Crowdsourcing GIS / VGIS – “The Big Pathwatch” 

Geography Postgrads [12:49:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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“Crowdsourcing” – using the combined power of lots of people doing little tasks to achieve a bigger task – is a word we hear a lot today. But it is not often we hear it in conjunction [...]

The 700 Year Old Weather Chart That Gives Me Butterflies 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:06:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
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A group of researchers (from over three dozen institutions!) has published a paper in SCIENCE ADVANCES that’s pretty amazing. They used tree ring analysis to reconstruct the summer rainfall maps on a [...]

New publication model for EGU journals 

James’ Empty Blog [16:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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There's been longstanding debate over the way in which manuscripts are handled by the EGU/Copernicus journals. The current system is that publication fees are charged for submitted manuscripts, which are [...]

Big news on the Tonzang landslide in Burma – probably the largest non-seismic landslide for a decade? 

The Landslide Blog [09:29:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Colin Stark & Goran Ekstrom have found the seismic record for the Tonzang landslide in Burma. At 395 million tonnes it may be the largest non-seismic landslide for a

Quote: Stephen Jay Gould On Paleontology 

Reporting on a Revolution [07:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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This study of periodicity of mass extinction was published last month- Periodic impact cratering and extinction events over the last 260 million years - Michael Rampino and Ken Caldiera.   The claims of [...]

Add a Burst of Flavor to a Regular Salad With Quality Herbs and Recipes 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [07:28:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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Many people do not have knowledge about the decoration flowers, herbs and spices. If you are looking for high quality products then you can take help of the service providers. Many service providers are [...]

Many Natural Natural remedy Suggestions Which Work Perfectly As Treatments 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [07:33:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
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Any time many of us think about natural remedies, we most think of these to often be risk-free and effective with little or no potential for dangerous side concerns. While it is true that almost all natural, [...]
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