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Tuesday, 24 November 2015
In the past six months, there’s been a lot of news about California’s Mono Lake. From scene-setting travel pieces to more intense discussions about its changing water levels, the lake[...]
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Alifanov e Saveliev (2015) descrivono i
resti frammentari di un dinosauro di taglia medio-piccola dal
Giurassico Superiore di Kulinda (Siberia orientale), la medesima
località da cui proviene il neornithischio basale “squamato-piumato”
Kulindadromeus. I resti descritti includono la parte terminale
di un arto (metapodiali e falangi), che gli autori interpretano come
resti di una mano, ed
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [19:03:00]
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(159 visits) category→arts_entertainment Jurassic
Regular readers will know that I can't get enough of dinosaur pop-up books, having reviewed several over the years, and 1991's Dinosaur Skeletons is a worthy addition to the canon. Intriguingly, the book's [...]
The education officers for Expedition 360, Lucas, Marion, and I, have made our travel arrangements and we are set to board the JOIDES Resolution on [...]
State of the Planet [18:07:04]
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(137 visits) category→science_technology US,MX
On Hawaii, lava is a way of life. The whole island is made of the stuff. Eruptions from Kilauea volcano have been adding new land and wiping out old for all of human time, and far before. In recent decades, [...]
This is the latest in a series of dispatches from scientists and education officers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor. This November, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor will aim to [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:05:46]
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(166 visits) IT,CN
Some of the sessions scheduled for the upcoming EGU General Assembly are PICO only sessions. This means that, rather than being oral or poster format, they involve Presenting Interactive COntent (PICO). The [...]
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I finally have an Okie who reads my stuff. I can't feel so detached and call them dumb as dirt. They are living, breathing dumb people. :) So far all the big 6-ish earthquakes have had their [...]
Heidelberg. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG hat eine Medaille aus seltenem natürlichen Rheingold prägen lassen. Die Medaille greift die Nibelungensage auf
How is the drilling from the JOIDES Resolution?
the drill bit is lowered directly on the sea floor at the start of the drilling process: it's [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]
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(164 visits) category→recreation Jurassic; FR
This brachiopod fossil is known as Digonella digona (Sowerby). It was found in Calcaire de Langrune Horizon of Luc sur mer, Normandy, France. It dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (Upper
After we finally arrived at our chosen overlook part way up Glass Mountain, we milled about a bit (it was a geology field trip, after all), and then we gathered 'round a map that one of our tour leaders, Julie [...]
Just like those artsy fartsy "creatives", for scientists to write, they also need to find their muse mews. James seems to have found his. This one is an excellent sort of a muse, being far more [...]
Geological Society of London blog [17:53:33]
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(150 visits) category→recreation AU
The Journal of the Geological Society’s series of ‘Review Focus’ articles on fossil Lagerstätten continues with recently discovered fossils from Emu Bay, South Australia, which are casting new light on [...]
If just the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt, it would raise global sea level by 6 meters. That’s more than a theoretical problem. West Antarctica is losing ice mass, and scientists are
The Cockrell Butterfly Center (CBC) is most well known for its free-flying butterflies inhabiting a three-story indoor rainforest. But there are many other cool things to see and experience at the CBC! We [...]
This is the latest in a series of dispatches from scientists and education officers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor. This November, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor will aim to [...]
Heidelberg. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG hat eine Medaille aus seltenem natürlichen Rheingold prägen lassen. Die Medaille greift die Nibelungensage auf
The Burma jade mine landslide disaster on Friday was a massive flowslide that is now known to have killed over 110 people. The final toll may be about 200 people, most of them poor miners living in an [...]
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