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Saturday, 06 February 2016

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Field Photos- Deccan Volcanics- Buttes And Rubbly Flow Tops

Reporting on a Revolution [11:02:00]

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where and when

IN,US,KM

Last Sunday I went for a short trek to Tail Baila, a basalt rock feature about 80 km west of Pune on the Mulshi dam backwaters road from Nive village to Lonavala. Take a look. This is a "butte". It was once an extensive lava flow (s), but weathering and erosion has removed much of the extensive volcanic plateau to leave behind remnants like this , poking up like skyscrapers. This is

New On-line Classes and Models

Real Climate [14:50:03]

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category→recreation

My free online class on Coursera.org entitled Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change has already served 45,000 people (started, not finished) in the four times that it’s run. Now it’s set up in a new format, called “on demand mode”, which allows people to start, progress, and finish on their own

The Story of Western Science, by Susan Wise Bauer

Mountain Beltway [13:20:04]

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category→arts_entertainment

I have a great book to recommend today – a book that takes a “Great Books” approach to tracking the advance of western science through history. The book is called, straightforwardly, The [...]

Born This Day: Mary Leakey

Palaeoblog [14:00:00]

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where and when

GB,TZ

Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (Feb. 6, 1913 – Dec. 9, 1996) was in London, England. She meet her future husband, Louis Leakey, when he asked her to illustrate his book, 'Adam’s Ancestors'. Mary and Louis spent [...]

10 Important Applications of Hyperspectral Image

Grindgis [05:40:18]

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The Bois d'Arc formation of Oklahoma

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]

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Devonian; BE,US

While the majority of my vacation last fall was to Utah and Wyoming, I did a quick couple of days in Texas and Oklahoma. Texas was kind of a bonus for the visit as my primary [...]

Shallow thrust earthquake hits Taiwan

Ontario-geofish [12:36:00]

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category→business
where and when

Reference M6.4, very small in this region, but location makes the difference. In general, nobody builds better than Taiwan, but this has spaghetti rebar, and weak concrete. We'll have to see what the [...]