New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Wednesday, 02 March 2016
Geological Society of America opposes de-licensing of geologists in Arizona
Guest blog by Bastian Schneider (RWTH Aachen University): Tsunami hazard in Muscat, Oman
Tsunamis are a very real threat in the Indian Ocean. Most people will immediately think of the 2004 tsunami and the Sumatra subduction zone, but the Arabian Sea has seen strong tsunamis in the past, too. In 1945, a major earthquake at the Makran Subduction Zone caused a large tsunami (Hoffmann et al., 2013a). In 2013, the on-shore Balochistan earthquake caused a submarine slide which in turn triggered a tsunami that reached the coast of Oman (Heidarzadeh & Satake,Scott Kelly is Home- He Deserves A Pulitzer Prize
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:36:56]
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..and that’s just to start. Scott Kelly landed inKazakhstan, after 340 days in space early Wednesday. He deserves the thanks of the nation and of the World for taking us along. His photos of our [...]
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Palaeoblog Now At Facebook.com/Palaeoblog
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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [19:33:00]
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Old School "T-Rex"
Further work for my upcoming project.The T-Rex for myPlease remember to support my work (donations for March specially needed)
I put a lot of work into this website. It mostly happens when something is going on in Iceland, earthquake swarm or an eruption. But between those times things are quiet in Iceland the traffic to this website [...]Climate May Make Some Regions ‘Uninhabitable’ by End of Century
The global trend toward hotter summers could make parts of the Middle East and tropics “practically uninhabitable” by the end of the century, new research published this weekPuesto de trabajo en IGME para trabajar en Angola
El IGME va a facilitar a la UTE de la que forma parte, constituida por IGME-LNEG-IMPULSO, un proceso de selección para contratación de personal que la UTE precisa para el desarrollo del Plan de Cartografía [...]Perfect Pixelations: Fine art with building blocks
If you’re like me, you’re not a grown-up, despite all indicators to the contrary, and as such, you like playing with toys. I like the challenge of a good puzzle, and I like the sense of completion [...]Sedimentology
As I mentioned two days ago (internet failure yesterday, sorry), when the whole round core gets split, the working half goes to the sampling table, [...]The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, by Andrea Wulf
This is the second Andrea Wulf book I’ve read in the past month. It’s a biography of a great naturalist and popularizer of science and travel writing, who at the same time is largely forgotten in [...]Animated Victorian Dinosaur
Echinoderms with Spines for Walkin'
Unforced Variations: Mar 2016
This month’s open thread. Pros and cons of celebrity awareness-raising on climate? The end of the cherry-picking of ‘pauses’ in the satellite data? Continuing impacts of El Niño? Your choice [...]Nature and Cairns
Wow, a first for me. A book of mine (Cairns: Messengers in Stone) was referenced in an article in Nature. The article is titled “Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing” and was written by a team of [...]The Impacts of Climate Change on Global Groundwater Resources (Part 1 of 4)
Geology for Global Development [09:30:55]
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US,BF,GB
Christopher Barry is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. He has written for the GfGD Blog in the past – detailing his contribution to water projects in Burkina Faso and fundraising [...]
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Mammals March Madness – Friends of the Watershed Hydrology Lab pool
Come one, come all to the internet phenom, the most nerdy fun alternative march madness event ever: Mammals March Madness 2016! http://mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2016/02/mammal-march-madness-2016.html?m=1 Will [...]biomodel: generic gorgonopsid
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So I’m modeling a gorgonopsid for Christian Kammerer. A bunch of them, actually. And I’ve started with a biomechanical model. Not a skeleton. Skeletons are a lot of work, but there are more [...]
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Cubiertas de prehistocómics IX
Gempa Samodra Hindia 2 Maret 2016
Play with VertFigure online
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:28:43]
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A while back, I mentioned that I’d written and released VertFigure, a program for drawing schematic comparative diagrams of vertebral columns. Matt and I used it in our vertebral bifurcation paper to [...]
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