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Tuesday, 15 March 2016

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A Far Too Rare Scene in These Parts in Recent Years: Flooding on Dry Creek 

Geotripper [23:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (658 visits) info
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The latest storm to pass through Central California dropped 1.28 inches of rain in my backyard gauge, giving us 4.26 inches for the month of March, and about a third of a normal year's precipitation in the space of just ten days or so. By the time this last storm arrived, the watershed was saturated, and so Dry Creek...was not dry. It reached a peak flow of about 3,000 cubic feet per

Bergstürze (Videos) 

Mente et Malleo [21:53:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (633 visits) info
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Videos über diverse Erdrutsche und Bergstürze habe ich hier ja schon ein paar mal eingestellt. Ich bin der Meinung, dass gerade diese bewegten Bilder uns sehr viel über diese doch sehr rasch ablaufende Geologie erzählen können. Und das auch noch vergleichsweise gefahrlos. Denn Erdrutsche sind oftmals in ihren Abmessungen und ihrem zeitlichen Ablauf her nur sehr schwer einzuschätzen. Lange Minuten der Langeweile können sehr rasch in kurze Momente des Terrors übergehen, wenn einem klar [...]

Geology Photo of the Week #52 – Looking from the past to the future 

GeoSphere [12:45:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (237 visits) info
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This weeks photo is a beautiful yet sad reminder that Arctic research and work is still a dangerous undertaking just as it was for the early Arctic explorers. The following text is by Vladislav... [[ This is [...]

Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made the Earth Habitable 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [19:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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Where Will Sea-Level Rise Hurt the Most? 

State of the Planet [16:27:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
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 US
First, the bad news: a study out yesterday says that the lives of up to 13 million people in the United States may be disrupted by sea-level rise in the next century–more than  three times most previous [...]

A rough ride down the Oregon coast 

AGU Meetings [18:35:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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When you plan a research cruise in the winter in Oregon, there’s a good chance the weather will change your plans. That’s what happened to us this

The Time of the Last Drop 

Friends of the Pleistocene [15:28:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
 the time of the last drop, FOP 2016 It has been a record breaking, warm winter on planet Earth, and New York has been no exception. After many recent warm days, it’s hard to believe that Sunday, March [...]

Back at Palmer Station 

polar soils blog [16:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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We traveled to Cape Evensen, which is an extra site that we added to our trip. Because we were so far ahead of schedule, we got permission to go even farther south to sample in a small gap in our overall [...]

Timberville 

Mountain Beltway [14:03:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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Join Callan for a virtual field trip, as he shares dozens of photos from a recent 'field review' of a new geological map in Virginia's Valley & Ridge province. Highlights: graptolites, trace fossils, [...]

Death Valley Trip, Part 3: Northward, and over Daylight Pass 

Looking for Detachment [17:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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We're still on the road in Death Valley and have stopped between the turnoff to Natural Bridge and the southern entrance to the one-way Artist's Drive to look northeastward toward the Black Mountains. [...]

Sedimentation Patterns Bay Of Bengal: How Old Is The River Ganga 

Reporting on a Revolution [17:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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...In our legends it is said that the goddess Ganga's descent from the heavens would have split the earth had Lord Shiva not tamed here torrent by tying it into his ash-smeared locks. To hear this story is to [...]

Kelimutu Crater Lakes 

Lake Scientist [21:11:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
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The Kelimutu crater lakes are a mystery all their own. Sitting at the top of the Kelimutu volcano in Indonesia, each of the three water bodies is a different color.[...] The post Kelimutu Crater Lakes appeared [...]

Terrordactyl (2016) 

Koprolitos [10:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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Al igual que sucedió en su día con "Jurassic Park", el éxito de "Jurassic World" ha favorecido la proliferación de subproductos con bichos prehistóricos persiguiendo gente. Es el caso de "Terrordactyl", [...]

When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Earth? 

Speaking of Geoscience [20:00:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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UPDATE 26 April 2016: On Friday 22 April during the European Geosciences Union 2016 General Assembly in Vienna, a Great Debate was held.  The question “Plate tectonics started in the Paleo-Archean or [...]

What is Organic Lawn Care? 

SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [15:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
A lawn can be a source of pride in the United States. A modest level of “husbandry,” or stewardship, can transform our “personal grassland” into the beautiful verdant sod we

Timurlengia ed il fantasma dei Megaraptoridae 

Theropoda [10:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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Brusatte et al. (2016) descrivono un neurocranio di theropode dal Cenomaniano-Turoniano dell'Uzbekistan caratterizzato da una unica ed inusuale combinazione di caratteri, ed istituiscono Timurlengia euotica. [...]

Descifrando Chasmosaurus 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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No lo tiene todo, pero casi. Con esta frase se podría resumir el nuevo ejemplar del ceratopsio Chasmosaurus belli presentado y descrito recientemente en la revista científica Journal of Vertebrate [...]

Geosociety Members Highlight Geoscience on the Hill 

Speaking of Geoscience [14:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
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Washington, D.C. – Members from the Geological Society of America’s Geology and Public Policy Committee gathered on Capitol Hill to emphasize the importance of federally funding geoscience research to [...]

How do dunes grow? By Yvonne Smit 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [19:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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Brown's Folly Middle Jurassic SSSI 

Geology in the West Country [17:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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The Brown's Folly website has been updated with some new photos.Net-like colonial coral from the patch reef at Site 8Brachiopod inside boring into the coral, Site 8Parts of Apiocrinus, a crinoid from the [...]

Oferta de tesis en Francia 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [16:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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 Nos ha llegado información para una tesis en Francia. Os la adjuntamos- financement de thèse « LA FALÉMÉ AU COURS DE QUATERNAIRE RÉCENT.ANALYSE GÉOARCHÉOLOGIQUE D’UN ESPACE SOUDANIEN RICHE EN [...]

Lady Woodward’s tablecloth 

Geological Society of London blog [11:51:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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 GB
Between 1894 and 1944, Maud and Arthur Smith Woodward welcomed countless eminent scientists into their homes in Kensington and Haywards Heath, Sussex. Arthur’s position as curator of the Geology [...]

Communicate your Science Video Competition finalists 2016: time to get voting! 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [15:52:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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 CN
For the third year in a row we’re running the EGU Communicate Your Science Video Competition – the aim being for early career scientists to communicate their research in a short, sweet and public-friendly [...]

Bonne Nuit, Jersey: a strange place to build a new Care Home? 

The Landslide Blog [14:04:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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 GB,FR
A significant coastal cliff collapse event in Bonne Nuit in Jersey this weekend, triggered by storms, has threatened a new care

Site Characterization Services: Step 5 Characterize & Report 

GeoPrac.net [07:28:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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So you've completed your field and laboratory geotechnical site characterization...now what? You write the report of course. This is the final video in a nice sequence of videos prepared by Terracon. Did [...]

Photo Essay: High in the Hills, Climate May Challenge Forests 

State of the Planet [15:45:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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Forests in the south-central United States are some of the country’s most productive and diverse. They also sit in a warming “hole”—an area where the progressive rise in temperature affecting most of [...]

The Early Anthropocene Hypothesis: An Update 

Real Climate [16:43:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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Guest post from Bill Ruddiman, University of Virginia For over a decade, paleoclimate scientists have argued whether the warmth of the last several thousand years was natural or anthropogenic. This brief [...]

How Will Shifting Climate Change U.S. Forests? 

State of the Planet [15:34:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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One foggy spring morning just after a hard rain, Park Williams was tromping through the woods deep in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains. Toiling down a steep slope, he supposedly was keeping a simultaneous eye out [...]

Bertha Demo Period Done, Resumes Mining 

GeoPrac.net [07:27:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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 US,IN
The Bertha tunnel boring machine has resumed chewing away beneath Seattle after a 'suspension for cause' order from WSDOT shut it down in January following two safety incidents. The BTM began tunneling with [...]

Geology and NASA: An Interview with Dr. Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist 

AGU Meetings [14:50:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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Dr. Ellen Stofan is a planetary scientist, STEM advocate and Chief Scientist at NASA. Her research interests include the geology of Venus, Mars, Titan and Earth and she's been involved in several planetary [...]

Copying content is not the same as theft 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:56:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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This post shouldn’t need to be written, but apparently it does. In recent discussions of Sci-Hub, I still keep seeing people trot out idiot analogies where copying scientific papers is portrayed as the [...]

When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Earth? 

Speaking of Geoscience [20:00:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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by Bob Stern (University of Texas at Dallas) Busy person’s summary:  This is a long blog (~5000 words).  If you are too busy to read all of it, here’s the story in a nutshell: there will be a meeting [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Hammer Metals berichtet über Ergebnisse der Explorationsarbeiten in der Mount Isa Region 

Rohstoff Blog [08:42:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
category→business
Neue Bohrungen für das zweite Quartal geplant Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), an der die Deutsche Rohstoff zu

Deutsche Rohstoff: Hammer Metals berichtet über Ergebnisse der Explorationsarbeiten in der Mount Isa Region 

Rohstoff Blog [08:42:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
Neue Bohrungen für das zweite Quartal geplant Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), an der die Deutsche Rohstoff zu
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