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Monday, 14 December 2015

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"Brontosaurus está de volta" entre as 12 melhores histórias científicas de 2015, diz revista Discover

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [06:22:00]

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A revista americana Discover releva, todos os anos, as 100 descobertas científicas mais importantes de cada ano. Em 1997, já tinha colocado os ovos e embriões de dinossauro de Paimogo na lista. Importa salientar que estes 100 lugares refletem todos os domínios da ciência.Este ano salientou o caso da história da recuperação do Brontosaurus classificando-o como o 12ª "top story" da ciência em 2015. Recorde-se que esta investigação da FCT-Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Museu [...]

John McIntosh (1923-2015)

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [01:06:00]

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US,PT

A Paleontologia de dinossauros perdeu um dos seus dóceis gigantes: John "Jack" McIntosh.A notícia é-nos dada por Dan Chure:Daniel Chure6 hrs · Vernal, UT, United States · PASSING OF JACK McINTOSH. It is with deep regret that I report that John S. McIntosh passed away this morning. He was 92 years old at the time of his death. Funeral arrangements have not been announced, He was well known, respected, and loved by many and over the years he helped innumerable [...]

Guest blog by Marta Ferrater (Uni Barcelona): Lateral Offset Quality Rating along Low Slip Rate Faults

Paleoseismicity [23:10:41]

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Marta Ferrater from the Universitat de Barcelona did a lot of research on the Alhama de Murcia Fault. Her most recent paper deals with how good we can measure lateral offsets along faults which move only very [...]

Unforced Variations: Dec 2015

Real Climate [04:09:08]

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This is a belated open thread for this month, for anything non-COP21 and non-AGU

love story of two volcanoes - Disney Pixar Short Film

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:15:00]

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Died This Day: Louis Agassiz

Palaeoblog [15:31:00]

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DE,CH,

image May 28, 1807 - Dec. 14, 1873 (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz was a Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolutionary contributions to the study of natural science with landmark [...]

Cubiertas de prehistocómics VI

Koprolitos [08:56:00]

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Más cubiertas de prehistocómics aquí

Paleolatitude: Ibéria à deriva nunca esteve tão a Norte

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [07:14:00]

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Jurassic; MA,PT

Numerosos dados provam a tectónica de placas e mostra a sua influência na paleogeografia e distribuição das espécies. A tectónica de placas fez com que a latitude da Península Ibérica mudasse ao longo [...]

In praise of Jack McIntosh

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [10:13:00]

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A short one today, and a sad one. I heard last night on Twitter that Jack McIntosh died at the age of 92. It would be hard to overstate what an inspiration he’s been to me. As a professional in a [...]

AGU Fall Meeting 2015: Taking the Lead

Magma Cum Laude [18:05:54]

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This year, you may have noticed I didn’t do a Social Media Roundup, and I’m not using my usual Day 1, Day 2, etc. titles. Partially, that’s because AGU has been doing a fantastic job of [...]

Catch Up on the Latest in Earth Science with AGU Sessions Live Online

State of the Planet [07:30:00]

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US,IN

The American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting opens in San Francisco this week. Catch up on your interests through AGU's On-Demand live

Micro to Macro, Nature to Art

Fossils and Other Living Things [20:01:00]

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Triassic; FR,CN,US,IT,GB,AT,CZ,,DE

Scale. It’s an ongoing effort to strike a proper or, perhaps, comfortable balance. Walk along 10th Street toward the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and lurking on either side [...]

Fun in Guatemala

Ontario-geofish [15:20:00]

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Very inexpensive. Tourism seems down. But you really need a bus tour. We have a big luxury bus. Artistic earthquake

Waves on Titan

AGU Meetings [22:14:24]

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Stanford University's Miles Traer is, once again, cartooning from the AGU Fall Meeting in San

Braquiópodes mostram padrões palegeográficos do Jurássico Inferior

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [13:39:00]

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Jurassic; LV,ES

Os braquiópodes eram animais comuns nos mares do Jurássico Inferior nos quais se conhecem dezenas de espécies. Um novo estudo vêm esclarecer os padrões paleobiogeográficos da fauna de braquiópodes [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Cub Creek und Elster veröffentlichen erstes Reservengutachten

Rohstoff Blog [09:54:25]

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4,25 Millionen BOE sichere und 8,03 Millionen BOE wahrscheinliche Reserven/Produzierende Horizontalbohrungen mit weiterhin hohen Förderraten Denver/Heidelberg. Elster Oil & Gas,

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 12/14-12/20

BEYONDbones [03:00:12]

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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! Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty [...]

Door fourteen

Geological Society of London blog [17:47:28]

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Behind door 14, an entry to our photo competition which represents another geosite from the ‘Human Habitation’ category… GSL staff member Maxine Smith took this beautiful photograph of the [...]

Observing evolution in real time

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:27:00]

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HIV mutates rapidly and forms countless virus variants in the patient. A collaboration of scientists from the group of Dr. Richard Neher, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, and [...]

Bringing a fossil 'back to life'

Earth Learning Idea [18:14:00]

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An activity that is great fun for the end of term:- 'Running the fossilisation film backwards; bringing a fossil ‘back to life’' Your pupils will have great fun pretending to be fossils which gradually [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Flying Rocks

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:03]

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CH,US,CN,KM,NL

The picture was taken at a hillslope close to the glacier tongue of the Great Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier in the Alps. With a length of 23 km it is located in the eastern Bernese Alps of Switzerland [...]

Update on Prestahnúkur earthquake swarm

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:37:38]

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The earthquake swarm in Prestahnúkur volcano is ongoing with breaks. The fault that is moving is around 5 to 15 km long at the moment (based on the map). The largest earthquake so far has had the magnitude [...]

When Lions Abound, Hyenas Pick a New Menu

Laelaps [13:00:02]

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Spotted hyenas in Zimbabwe started feasting on bigger animals to avoid competition with

#AGU15

Real Climate [04:07:22]

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So this week it’s the biggest Earth Science meeting on the planet… There is a lot of great science that will be freely streamed via AGU On-Demand (registration required), and there’ll be a lot of [...]

Fort McPherson: a catastrophic mudflow in Canada

The Landslide Blog [18:10:26]

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In the summer a permafrost mudslide caused the partial breach, caught on video, of a small lake near Fort McPherson in

EGU 2016: Registration open & short courses, townhall and splinter meeting requests

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [15:00:08]

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AT,CN

The EGU General Assembly brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting that covers all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The conference is taking place in Vienna on [...]

Früher Bergbau in den Alpen: Der Stahl der Steinzeit

Geschichte der Geologie [19:01:00]

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US,AU,AT

Bereits vor 9.000-9.100 Jahren wurde Silex im Bereich der Alpe Schneiderküren (1.540m SH) im Kleinwalsertal in Vorarlberg bearbeitet. Der Silex oder Feuerstein stammt von dem 15km entfernten Widderstein, wo [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Cub Creek und Elster veröffentlichen erstes Reservengutachten

Rohstoff Blog [09:54:25]

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DE,US

4,25 Millionen BOE sichere und 8,03 Millionen BOE wahrscheinliche Reserven/Produzierende Horizontalbohrungen mit weiterhin hohen Förderraten Denver/Heidelberg. Elster Oil & Gas,

Torfmoore und Klimawandel - Tief eingebrannt

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:22:00]

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Lasergestützte Messungen ermöglichen detaillierte Analysen, wie viel klimaschädliches Kohlendioxid von brennenden tropischen Torfmooren freigesetzt wird – und zeigen, dass es einen Unterschied [...]

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2015-12-13→

Geobulletin alpha

News from the Geoblogosphere

Monday, 14 December 2015

"Brontosaurus está de volta" entre as 12 melhores histórias científicas de 2015, diz revista Discover

John McIntosh (1923-2015)

Guest blog by Marta Ferrater (Uni Barcelona): Lateral Offset Quality Rating along Low Slip Rate Faults

Unforced Variations: Dec 2015

love story of two volcanoes - Disney Pixar Short Film

Died This Day: Louis Agassiz

Cubiertas de prehistocómics VI

Paleolatitude: Ibéria à deriva nunca esteve tão a Norte

In praise of Jack McIntosh

AGU Fall Meeting 2015: Taking the Lead

Catch Up on the Latest in Earth Science with AGU Sessions Live Online

Micro to Macro, Nature to Art

Fun in Guatemala

Waves on Titan

Braquiópodes mostram padrões palegeográficos do Jurássico Inferior

Deutsche Rohstoff: Cub Creek und Elster veröffentlichen erstes Reservengutachten

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 12/14-12/20

Door fourteen

Observing evolution in real time

Bringing a fossil 'back to life'

Imaggeo on Mondays: Flying Rocks

Update on Prestahnúkur earthquake swarm

When Lions Abound, Hyenas Pick a New Menu

#AGU15

Fort McPherson: a catastrophic mudflow in Canada

EGU 2016: Registration open & short courses, townhall and splinter meeting requests

Früher Bergbau in den Alpen: Der Stahl der Steinzeit

Deutsche Rohstoff: Cub Creek und Elster veröffentlichen erstes Reservengutachten

Torfmoore und Klimawandel - Tief eingebrannt

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