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Sunday, 24 January 2016

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Geocoding using Microsoft Excel 2013 and Google Maps API 

Grindgis [20:29:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
Geocoding is the process of converting addresses to the x and y coordinate or longitude and latitude. There are various option available in the market to perform geocoding, some are paid and some are free. You can use The Google Maps Geocoding API to retrieve the longitude and latitude for free. Later you can convert

Mexico's Popocatépetl Volcano Causes High Alert 

Volcano Science And News Blog [19:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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There is a lot of bad reporting going on about Popocatépetl in Mexico lately, so I thought it might be a good idea to set everything nice and straight. Some reports are suggesting Popo hasn't erupted since the year 2000. False, it has been in a continuous state of unrest with occasional ash emissions since 2005. That's upwards of 11 years. The volcano has been having more frequent and more powerful ash emissions, with multiple dome building/collapse events and small pyroclastic flows [...]

The JOIDES... a wonderful way to do "Content and Language Integrated Learning" CLIL 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [18:54:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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You can find many good definitions and explanations about CLIL ! For example on the British council website [...]

Papers- Geochemistry Of Carbonate Diagenesis 

Reporting on a Revolution [17:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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Aladin's cave has opened up! (behind pay wall) This is for students and researchers in sedimentary geology and particularly those studying carbonate sediments. The journal Sedimentology has compiled a virtual [...]

Latest Toronto seismicity 

Ontario-geofish [13:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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Lest we forget.  Alaska just had an M7.1 that woke everybody up, but no damage.  That's the trouble with preparing for earthquakes in this neck of the woods -- those in power say we're no Alaska or [...]

The greatest ever debris flow video? Aconcagua in Argentina 

The Landslide Blog [09:00:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (646 visits) info
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 AR
An amazing video has appeared on youtube showing a debris flow on the flanks of Aconcagua in Argentina. It came very close to killing a group of

Paleoseismology & active tectonics sessions at the IASPEI-LACSC meeting 20-22 June, 2016, San Jose, Costa Rica 

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From 20-22 June, 2016, the IASPEI – Regional Assembly of the Latin-American and Caribbean Seismological Commission – LACSC will  be held in San Jose, Costa Rica. There will be some very [...]

The JOIDES... a wonderful way to do "Content and Language Integrated Learning" CLIL 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [18:54:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
You can find many good definitions and explanations about CLIL ! For example on the British council website [...]

The Penguin’s Palette 

March of the Fossil Penguins [17:00:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (316 visits) info
I’ve written an article on color in penguins, highlighting some of the remarkable discoveries my colleagues in the modern penguin world have made about pigments, structural color, and more (plus of [...]

Premiered This Day (1956): The Animal World 

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“2 Billion Years in the Making!” Produced and directed by Irwin Allen, whose long career included such TV hits as Lost In Space and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, and movies like The Poseidon Adventure [...]

A Storm That Will Be Remembered for Generations 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:12:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (652 visits) info
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Some are calling it Snowzilla, and having experienced it, the name fits! From DC to Baltimore, and up to New York have over 2 feet. Here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, it varies but a foot is common in [...]
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