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Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Links: Field Tests for Gold and Silver (or other Elements or Metals, and Sometimes Minerals)
After reviewing links on my 2009 blowpipe tests post (spurred on by this recent comment on another post), I decided to do a little more research concerning field tests for gold, silver, and other metals (primarily; some of these links are for minerals in general, though I haven't included links for the usual hardness, scratch, and other well-known tests and characteristics). The articles
Earthquake Geology sessions at the 16 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Chile, 2017
The 16 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering will be held from 9-13 January, 2017, in Santiago de Chile. Note that the deadline for short abstracts submission is 23 November, 2015! Abstracts can be [...]So what is really happening in Antarctica?
The recent paper by Zwally et al. in the Journal of Glaciology has been widely reported as evidence that Antarctic is gaining mass, and hence lowering sea level. Is it? Expert Jonathan Bamber weighs in. Guest [...]Died This Day: Gideon Mantell
Mantell (Feb. 3, 1790 – Nov. 10, 1852), a physician of Lewes in Sussex in southern England, had for years been collecting fossils in the sandstone of Tilgate forest, and he had discovered bones belonging to [...]Concavenator en la nueva revista científica para niños "Principia Kids"
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [11:11:00]
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A Symbol of Culture: Francs Guinéens Paint a Picture of Life in Guinea
by Kaylee Gund During a recent visit to the Museum’s offsite collections storage, one carving in particular caught my eye — the Nimba (D’mba). After living in Guinea for over a year, I [...]Digonella digona Brachiopod Fossil
Louisville Area Fossils [03:00:00]
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Flugsaurier 2015 Volume of Papers announced
I’m putting this up here as I do still get a fair number of visitors and obviously this site is still very pterosaur centric. Pterosaur enthusiasts will know there have been a series of volumes of [...]Polar Ice, Penguin Tracks and Phytoplankton
Jeff Bowman, a postdoctoral research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is in Antarctica for the field season studying how phytoplankton and bacteria interact. Follow his reports from Palmer [...]Neue Erkenntnisse zum Schadstoffabbau nach Ölkatastrophen
Wissenschaftler simulieren für eine Untersuchung das Deepwater Horizon-Unglück in Tiefenwässern des Golfs von MexikoNach Ölunfällen im Meer, etwa durch Tankerunglücke oder auslaufende Pipelines und [...]Scientist Highlight: Q & A with Craig Sloss
Display on Kids page readÈ USCITO IL MIO LIBRO: Il meteorite ed il vulcano: come si estinsero i dinosauri (Edizioni Altravista, € 23)
scienzeedintorni [10:43:00]
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Global temperatures go high
International Conference on El Niño, Nov. 17-18
A live-streamed international conference on El Niño takes place on Nov. 17 and 18 at the International Research Institute for Climate andOklahoma earthquakes back on track
DEUQUA-Tagung 2016 in Dresden
25.09. bis 30.09.2016 Unter dem Motto "Übergänge im Quartär" findet vom 25.09. bis 30.09.2016 die Deutsche Quartärtagung (DEUQUA) in Dresden statt. Informationen [...]The Karst Topography...of California? California has Natural Bridges, and not Just in Santa Cruz
Geotripper [07:28:00]
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Permian,Carboniferous; US,
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The history of the Fundao Dam near Bento Rodriguez
It is likely that the Bento Rodriguez disaster was triggered by the collapse of the Fundao Dam. Google Earth reveals the history of theDEUQUA-Tagung 2016 in Dresden
25.09. bis 30.09.2016 Unter dem Motto "Übergänge im Quartär" findet vom 25.09. bis 30.09.2016 die Deutsche Quartärtagung (DEUQUA) in Dresden statt. [...]The central irony of life in academia
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [12:19:32]
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One thing that always bemuses me is the near-absolute serendipity of the academic job market. To get into research careers takes at least a decade of very deliberate, directed work, and then at the end you [...]
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Cubiertas de prehistocómics V
El Niño Effects On Great Lakes Water Levels
In recent decades, the effects of El Niño on Great Lakes water levels have varied. In one that spanned from 1982 to 1983, levels of some lakes (Michigan-Huron) went down.[...] The post El Niño Effects On [...]Top concepts:
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