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Monday, 11 January 2016

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Happy 2016 from LITC 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [23:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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LITC 2016Ink on hot pressed watercolour paper, 150 x 150 mm.A little late, but not yet too late. Happy New Year to our readers from David (Anatotitan/Edmontosaurus), Asher (Dilophosaurus), Marc (Deinonychus), and me (Diplodocus). I made very few contributions to the blog in 2015, owing largely to moving house and a number of rather personal issues, but I very much hope that this piece is a good beginning to a more fruitful year ahead (opening the image out in a new tab for a closer view is [...]

Advice from an Alum: Start Connecting on Twitter 

State of the Planet [22:51:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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Mason Benyair is an alumnus of the Undergraduate Sustainable Development Program. Earth Institute Intern Chandler Precht asked him for thoughts about the program; he also spoke about how he found his current job and offered advice for current

Carl von Linné und sein schwieriges Verhältnis zu Fossilien 

Geschichte der Geologie [21:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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Carl von Linné  (1707-1778) ist berühmt für die Einführung der binäre Nomenklatur und Klassifizierung alles irdischen Lebens. Weniger ist bekannt das er auch Mineralien als Regnum lapideum in [...]

Monday Geology Picture: Granitoid Beach Rocks, Langebaan, South Africa 

Georneys [19:59:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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For this week’s Monday Geology Picture, here are some lovely granitoid beach rocks along the Atlantic Ocean at Langebaan, South Africa. I visited Langebaan again this past weekend with some family. Stay [...]

Machimosaurus rex, Giant Marine Crocodile from Tunisia 

Palaeoblog [19:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
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Brian Switek covers some nice work by our colleague, Federico Fanti: The biggest sea-dwelling crocodile ever found has turned up in the Tunisian desert. The whopper of a prehistoric predator grew to over 30 [...]

2016 International Year of Earth Science Educator Stories 

Earth Learning Idea [17:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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Welcome to 2016, our International Year of Earth Science Educator stories. The stories of those who influence Earth Science education locally and across the world will appear every Thursday on the IGEO [...]

Blueshist Facies And An Exam Written Long Ago 

Reporting on a Revolution [17:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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Bear with me. Abstract: Emergence of blueschists on Earth linked to secular changes in oceanic crust composition - Richard M. Palin and Richard W. White The oldest blueschists—metamorphic rocks formed [...]

11/1/1693: Sicily is devastated by an earthquake and its related tsunami 

Stephane on Blogger Earthquakes, geology and related topics... but not only [13:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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Finding out an earthquake geological source is an issue that we have to address to improve seismic hazard and then earthquake preparedness. It is often a problem for historical events, even for the big ones [...]

Morelladon beltrani en los medios 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [13:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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Pasadas las fechas de excesos navideños, volvemos al blog con un resumen de las noticias más destacadas sobre Morelladon beltrani, la nueva especie de dinosaurio descrita en las últimas semanas del año que [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Man-made landscape 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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 GB,BS,US,ES,CN
The landscape of the Mersey Estuary in Liverpool Bay is ever changing; it offers the opportunity to observe the changing geomorphology of a river estuary which is closely linked to a very urban and man-made [...]

Il Re dei Sauri Battaglieri – Morfologia di un Gigante 

Theropoda [09:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
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Nel precedente post, ho raccontato l'epica giornata del 6 dicembre 2014, in cui scoprimmo lo scheletro articolato di un enorme coccodrillo fossile nella località di Touil el Mhahir, nel sud del Governatorato [...]

Max Fleischer, el gran olvidado del mundo de la animación 

Koprolitos [08:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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Si alguien viene a la mente cuando se menciona la palabra “animación” es, fuera de toda duda, Walt Disney. Pero nadie se acuerda ya de quienes fueron sus principales rivales hasta que la Guerra terminó [...]

Paying It Forward At The AMS Annual Meeting 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [05:19:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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I’m in New Orleans to attend the 96th annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, and today I spent some time talking with students and young professionals about what awaits them as [...]

Art in the rock ... What do you see in these thin sections ? EPISODE 2 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [03:07:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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Answer episode 1 : A horse giving birth ... by Jiansong Zhang our poetry-geologist ! Can you guess this one ? Courtesy of Bill Crawford, IODP Imaging specialist

Everyone loves a little tail 

RMDRC paleo lab [00:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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Or even a huge one. Just wanted to share some cool pics we took of Pete III's 5.1m long (17 foot) tail. Caudal 1 is missing from this layout (it was still in the pelvis jacket), so add on another 18cm or [...]

The glorious world of Google Plus collections 

Ontario-geofish [20:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (224 visits) info
My 'Earthquakes' collection has become so huge that people think it's a public thing, like the old Usenet Earthquakes group, or something on Facebook.  All those groups died an ugly death, buried under porn [...]

Fresh earthquake activity in Hekla volcano 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [19:17:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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During the night (11-January-2016) few minor earthquakes took place in Hekla volcano. None of the earthquakes did go over magnitude 2,0. The earthquake activity in Hekla volcano (right). Copyright of this [...]

Ash fall in Indonesia 

Geology in the West Country [18:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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Villagers ride through a landscape rendered in monochrome by volcanic ash from Mount Bromo in east Java, Indonesia. The volcano has been erupting for a month.Source

Student E-lecture - Petrographic coded correlations in petrophysics by Nina Gegenhuber 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [17:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
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We found the cone! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [16:05:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info
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In our last blog post you read about our recent cone troubles. No, not that kind of cone. read

Forcing the old guys into retirement -earthquakes 

Ontario-geofish [13:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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I have a great joy in hearing from the young people who are getting into one of the million things that I write about.  The worst thing about science and engineering right now is the chokehold by old guys. [...]

AUV Shows What Great White Sharks Do All Day 

Laelaps [13:00:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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No creature has a reputation more fearsome than the great white shark. Despite all we’ve learned about them, including how they really don’t have much interest at in all eating us, movies and basic [...]

Il Re dei Sauri Battaglieri - La Fine del Regno dei Teleosauridi 

Theropoda [09:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (621 visits) info
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Il Re dei Sauri Battaglieri – Prologo 

Theropoda [08:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
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Foto scattata da Aldo Bacchetta il 6 dicembre 2014 a Touil el Mhahir. A sinistra, il vostro blogger assieme a Germano Mignani. A destra, Fawsi Mnasri. Un'ora dopo questa foto, saremmo stati tutti nello [...]

The weirdness of Mass Ejection Landslides in China 

The Landslide Blog [08:00:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, a small number of mass ejection landslides have been described. Strangely, these have never been observed

Aulocystis Encrusting a Favosites Coral Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (219 visits) info
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This fossil is on display at the Falls of the Ohio State Park Interpretive Center. It is thought to be an Aulocystis (?) procumbens tube coral growing on top of a Favosites turbinatus tabulate coral fossil. [...]

Dreams of Summer: The Bad Star Strikes! What happened at Canyon Diablo 50,000 Years Ago 

Geotripper [02:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
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It might be heresy for me to say it, but there are some places where the geology appears to be kind of...monotonous. Flatlands covered by soils are sometimes not all that interesting. I can even be accused of [...]
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