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Thursday, 21 January 2016

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How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been? 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [17:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (750 visits) info
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The other half of the CO2 problem - with the eyes of a geologist 

Geology in the West Country [16:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (250 visits) info
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The other half of the CO2 problem - with the eyes of a geologist Inaugural lecture - Professor Daniela SchmidtProfessor of Paleobiology,  School of Earth Sciences, University of BristolTuesday 23 February 2016 at 6.15 pmThe ocean serves us in many ways from regulating climate to providing food, livelihood and recreation. The increase of atmospheric CO2 over the last century has led to a measurable warming and decrease in surface ocean pH, a process termed ocean acidification. [...]

Landslides in Chile Part 3: the Meson Alto rock avalanche 

The Landslide Blog [10:03:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (229 visits) info
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The Meson Alto rock avalanche is a 4.5 cubic kilometre landslide located in a tributary of the Maipo Valley high in the Andes of

Hippos in Britain - 130,000 years ago 

Geology in the West Country [16:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (226 visits) info
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It’s official: 2015 was the warmest year on record. But those global temperature records only date back to 1850 and become increasingly uncertain the further back you go. Beyond then, we’re reliant on [...]

ResearchGate? 

Accidental Remediation [01:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info
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I've been getting the odd invitation to join ResearchGate ever since my journal article* was published. My paper is not going to set the world on fire, but more than 5 years after publication, I'm still [...]

2015 Temperatures 

Real Climate [14:29:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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To no-one’s great surprise, 2015 was clearly a record year in all the surface temperature analyses (GISTEMP, NOAA, HadCRUT4, Cowtan&Way, JMA + Berkeley Earth). There is a lot of discussion of this [...]

Very cool cairn photo 

New Stories in Stone [16:41:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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I was recently contacted by Todd Ellis, a photographer based in southern Utah, who sent me this unusual, and I think subtly striking photo of a cairn from his neck of the

A Brief Word from the Atlantic 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [13:41:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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It's an exciting time for earth science, not only in the Indian Ocean but in the Atlantic as well. At the same time as we are drilling deep into [...]

Being Natural: Michelle Connor 

BEYONDbones [13:00:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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She’s been a Girl Scout, a troop leader, a cookie mom, and now she’s ready to go even further. Michelle Connor is excited and ready to be the next Scout Programs Manager at the Houston Museum [...]

South Georgia Island and Farewell to the Deep South 

Earthly Musings [15:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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The two voyages have come to an end and only South Georgia is left to report on. After four glorious weeks of sunshine in Antarctica, we were bound to pay the price with rain and snow. Oh well, some good shots [...]

Historic Storm Aims for the Mid-Atlantic. Why it’s so hard to predict it! 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:05:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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There is little doubt that a major and perhaps historic blizzard will hit DC, Baltimore, and up toward Philadelphia Friday afternoon, lingering into late Saturday night. Winds will be very high along the [...]

A Brief Word from the Atlantic 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [13:41:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
It's an exciting time for earth science, not only in the Indian Ocean but in the Atlantic as well. At the same time as we are drilling deep into [...]

Tweaks to Geotripper 

Geotripper [03:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (228 visits) info

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So I look at my blog today, and a bunch of stuff looked different. I don't know how or why because I haven't touched the "layout" button in a long time, but since the arrangement looked terrible, I [...]

Update 3 on Tjörnes Fracture Zone earthquake swarm 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:40:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (205 visits) info

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Today (21-January-2016) the earthquake swarm on Tjörnes Fracture Zone continued after a little stop. This type it was the earthquake swarm on the south end (next to Kópasker village) that started to [...]

Año nuevo, museo nuevo 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
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Un año más, y como manda la tradición y el turismo, FITUR abrió sus puertas. Contó para ello con la presencia de la Reina y de muchos políticos deseosos de hacerse una foto frente a los stands de sus [...]

Rapid warming over the Indian Ocean reduces marine productivity 

AGU Meetings [17:19:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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Increasing water temperatures in the Indian Ocean are taking a toll on the marine ecosystem, according to our new

The Rains Come and the Snow Falls: Normal in California Doesn't Feel Normal 

Geotripper [07:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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Normal just doesn't feel normal. In 2014, researchers were declaring the California drought the worst in 1,000 years. And then we had a year, 2015, that was in many ways much worse. We actually had near [...]

Dracoraptor hanigani, 200 Million Year Old Theropod from Wales 

Palaeoblog [13:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
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The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145713. Art by Credit Bob Nicholls Dracoraptor hanigani from south of Wales is possibly the oldest [...]

El orgullo dinosauriano por R. A. Faller 

Koprolitos [08:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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La joven ilustradora norteamericana R. A. Faller reside en Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) y se ha graduado recientemente en el Columbus College of Art & Design. Hace un año puso en marcha el Tumblr "Pride [...]

Sitting with Time 

Friends of the Pleistocene [17:55:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
the times of all things and beings pass around and through us 9 minutes, 44 seconds, one continuous line, 1-5-002016, smudge When we first arrived at our residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI),* we [...]

Northern Lake Methane Emissions 

Lake Scientist [21:22:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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In the United States, the largest contributor to methane emissions is oil and gas exploration. This is followed by those added from herds of livestock, landfills and coal mining. About[...] The post Northern [...]
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