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Tuesday, 24 November 2015

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Photos: California’s Mono Lake 

Lake Scientist [21:22:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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 US
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[...] The post Photos: California’s Mono Lake appeared first on Lake

Cosa è Lepidocheirosaurus? 

Theropoda [19:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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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

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaur Skeletons 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [19:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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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 [...]

Preparations are Underway for Expedition 360! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [18:44:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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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 [...]

Photo Essay: Land, Lava, People 

State of the Planet [18:07:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
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 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, [...]

Mariana: The Tectonic Neighborhood 

AGU Meetings [17:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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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 [...]

There are even more benefits to choosing a PICO session at EGU 2016! 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:05:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info

 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 [...]

Fear Finally Feasts on Oklahoma 

Ontario-geofish [12:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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Reference 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 [...]

Stepping Into Dinosaurs 

Palaeoblog [09:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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Deutsche Rohstoff verkauft außergewöhnliche Medaille aus natürlichem Rheingold in limitierter Auflage 

Rohstoff Blog [08:53:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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Heidelberg. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG hat eine Medaille aus seltenem natürlichen Rheingold prägen lassen. Die Medaille greift die Nibelungensage auf

Exp359. Drilling from the JOIDES... 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [07:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Jurassic Digonella digona Brachiopod Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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 Jurassic; FR
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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

Views from Glass Mountain 

Looking for Detachment [19:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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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 [...]

The Muse 

James’ Empty Blog [18:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (195 visits) info
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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 [...]

Eye opening fossil deposits 

Geological Society of London blog [17:53:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Exploring Beneath Earth’s Changing Ice Sheets 

State of the Planet [14:06:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info
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 ,US
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

Staff Picks: Best of the Cockrell Butterfly Center 

BEYONDbones [13:00:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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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 [...]

More about the Mariana Hydrothermal Hunt 

AGU Meetings [11:00:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (185 visits) info
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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 [...]

Variadito XV 

Koprolitos [08:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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Deutsche Rohstoff verkauft außergewöhnliche Medaille aus natürlichem Rheingold in limitierter Auflage 

Rohstoff Blog [08:53:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
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 

The Landslide Blog [07:26:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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 MM
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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