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Tuesday, 17 November 2015
I’ve Never Seen Hail Like This Before
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:49:50]
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Rain drops and hail stones need something to form around, and we refer to this as condensation nuclei. The image below shows something else though. A tornado in the Texas panhandle last night picked up stalks of corn, and lifted them high into the atmosphere, where water froze on it, turning it into a hail stone. The picture was taken by Johnny Goodson of Pampa,Texas. That was one powerful updraft,
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Dammbruch und Schlammflut in Brasilien
Schlammströme stellen eine große Gefahr in bergigen Gebieten dar. Das gilt natürlich ganz besonders, wenn die Hänge durch menschliche Aktivitäten noch zusätzlich geschwächt sind. Oder, wenn sie, wie am 5. November im Südosten Brasiliens geschehen, durch menschliche Aktivitäten überhaupt erst entstehen. Hier hatte ein Damm eines Beckens mit Abraum und Abwasser eines Eisenerzbergwerkes nachgegeben und einen Schlammstrom zu Tal geschickt. Insgesamt sollen rund 60 Millionen Kubikmeter [...]4th small quake in northwestern Arizona this week
Not a speck of added power with the Niagara Tunnel
Reference This person prices it as 1.5 billion, but I know it had to be more than that. They have great capacity to hide costs, and this is why I was always hoping for a change in gov't. He attributes the [...]Volcanoes of the Ethiopian Rift Valley
The great Rift Valley of Ethiopia is not only the cradle of humankind, but also the place on Earth where humans have lived with volcanoes, and exploited their resources, for the longest period of time. Perhaps [...]Did Rogue Waves Sink Edmund Fitzgerald?
There are many theories on the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the freighter that went down in Lake Superior in November of 1975. Some of these include that faulty[...] The post Did Rogue Waves Sink [...]Mesozoic Miscellany 80
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [20:49:00]
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Cretaceous; GB,CA,ZA,IN,AR
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What Everyone Should Know About Climate Change
Young scientists sum it up: The climate is changing. We’re causing it. It’s going affect everyone, and be expensive. But we can do something about it. Watch theHitting a nerve with popular posts
I blog here a few times a week, when I can manage it. Mostly I focus on new things I discover on field trips, advances in geologic imagery, and structural geology. I get about 500 readers per day. But [...]Showcase your film at Geocinema at the 2016 General Assembly!
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:09]
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Every year, we showcase a great selection of geoscience films at the EGU General Assembly and after six successful years we will again be running Geocinema in 2016. If you’ve shadowed a scientist in the lab, [...]
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Los mundos prehistóricos de Alex Toth
The Karst Topography...of California? A Look at California Caverns
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Geology calendar highlights ‘must-see’ Utah places
Another highlight on the 2016 Calendar of Utah Geology—get yours in time before they’re all gone! Get them in store at the Utah Natural Resources Map & Bookstore, or online HERE. deseretnews.com [...]POTD November 17, 2015: Dark Canyon Primitive Area, San Juan County, Utah
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Permian,Carboniferous; US
Dark Canyon Primitive Area, San Juan County, Utah Photographer: Diane Menuz; © 2015 The stream in the lower section of Dark Canyon runs reddish brown following heavy morning rain. Sandstone of the Permian-age [...]
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Volcanoes of the Ethiopian Rift Valley
The great Rift Valley of Ethiopia is not only the cradle of humankind, but also the place on Earth where humans have lived with volcanoes, and exploited their resources, for the longest period of time. Perhaps [...]How to Feed Everyone—and Protect the Environment
More than 500 leaders in agricultural research and organizations from 67 countries came together for the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security to discuss how we can achieve global food security [...]Rotation an important factor in Earth’s evolution
Around 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after the solar system was formed, an object roughly the size of Mars smashed into Earth. The energy of this impact sheared off enough material to create the Moon and melt [...]Let Them Squeeze Cake!: contributor Rachael Gray
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Remember the forecast of a temporary global cooling which made headlines around the world in 2008? We didn’t think it was reliable and offered a bet. The forecast period is now over: we were right, the [...]High resolution imagery of the Bento Rodrigues dam failures
Airbus Defence and Space have released high resolution SPOT 6/7 satellite imagery of the Bento Rodrigues dam failures inCyclothyris vespertilio Brachiopod Fossil
Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]
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Cretaceous; FR
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Fresh earthquake activity in Bárðarbunga volcano
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At 12:39 UTC (16-November-2015) a magnitude 3,2 earthquake took place in Bárðarbunga volcano. The depth of this earthquake was only 0,5 km so it was not created by magma movement, rather stress changes in [...]
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El Nino Warms Equatorial Pacific To Record Levels
The 2015 El Nino continues to be one of the strongest ever measured and the weekly temperatures this week have passed the 1997 event, which was the strongest on record. The El Nino index is based on a running [...]Top concepts:
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