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Sunday, 28 February 2016

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Short overview of earthquake activity in Iceland 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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This is a short update of earthquake activity in Iceland on 28-February-2016. Bárðarbunga volcano Over the past 48 hours there has been earthquake activity and dyke activity in Bárðarbunga volcano. Some of this earthquake activity has been on … Continue reading

Elephant’s Eye Cave Hike in Pictures 

Georneys [21:15:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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On Monday I shared one picture from a recent hike to Elephant’s Eye cave in Silvermine Nature Reserve here in the Cape Town region of South Africa. Today I’m sharing some more pictures from that hike, which took place last weekend. I really enjoy hiking to Elephant’s Eye.The hike consists of a fairly easy 3 hour round trip route that takes you through some beautiful fynbos vegetation and past some lovely rock

Downloading Sentinel satellite imagery 

Digital Geography [20:26:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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Sentinel is the buzzword for a series of Earth observation missions like Sentinel-1 (Land and Ocean monitoring,launched in April 2014), Sentinel-2 (land monitoring, launched in June 2015) and Sentinel-3 [...]

Trials & Tribulations of Coring the Agulhas Plateau 

State of the Planet [20:03:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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Trying to drill sediment cores while the ship rides large ocean swells off the coast of Africa isn't easy, but it's paying off for science, writes Sidney

Stratigraphic Correlation 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [19:27:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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Since there is a working plan for filling the gaps, the stratigraphic correlators are doing a bit better today, so continuing on our path following [...]

It’s Hypermobility Awareness Week! 

Cambriangirl - Science! Geology! Writing! [13:57:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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The Hypermobility Syndrome Association is running an awareness week, so I thought I’d contribute. To be hypermobile, at the core definition of the word, is to have a range of motion that exceeds [...]

Death Valley National Park and an Early Spring Wildflower Season 

Earthly Musings [02:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (630 visits) info
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Helen and I were recently able to visit Death Valley National Park in California and it turned out to be a fantastic trip with early spring season wildflowers. This is one called Desert Gold - a member of the [...]

El amianto y sus fantasmas 

Geosfera [20:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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Realmente el amianto no es un único mineral, sino que la palabra se utiliza para describir a diversos minerales fibrosos que son utilizados industrialmente. También es habitual escuchar la palabra asbestos, [...]

Linux - End of the line for accelerometer project - Raspberry Pi Repeated Starts 

Ontario-geofish [19:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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I wanted to build a cheap accelerometer that met my dreams.  It had to be under $20, and do the following things: Interface with Internet by directly uploading into a buffer, so things were not lost when the [...]

Living the Dream, Day 4 – The Grand Canyon Supergroup 

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [18:35:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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It staggers anyone’s sense of time and space. I am compelled to read about it over and over and over again after I get home from my May 2015 raft trip down the Colorado River. It takes quite a bit of [...]

What is Alexandra Elbakyan’s motivation for creating and running Sci-Hub? 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [11:00:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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I’ve been a bit nonplussed recently to see some strange claims about Alexander Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub. For example, this from Angela Cochrane in an article at the Scholarly Kitchen: She [...]
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