Os adjuntamos el cartel de presentación de la charla "Geoarqueología y registros paleoambientales holocenos en el Noroeste argentino: los valles calchaquíes", que la arqueóloga argentina Mª Marta Sampietro (Univ. Nacional de Tucumán), acompañada del catedrático de la Universidad de Zaragoza José Luis Peña, impartirá este jueves 31 de marzo a las 12h de la mañana en el Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología - CSIC. Campus de Aula Dei. Avda. Montañana 1005, CP 50159
In one of the most sweeping proposals since the creation of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”), the agency has announced proposed regulations to update requirements [...]
Ontario-geofish [21:21:00]
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I now buy a lot of stuff directly from China. It's easy to use Aliexpress, and keep everything under $20 if you want to stay under the arcane Canadian limit. I have had a 100% success at getting good [...]
This is one of the rarest forests on our planet. I know of a number of different species that are represented by extremely limited habitats; there are the Dawn Redwoods of China (a grove of maybe 5,000 [...]
Dramatic change in the moon’s tilt may help us trace the origin of water on Earth Read
The 1980 eruptive sequence completely changed the landscape around Mount St. Helens. Geologists flocked there to measure and investigate, taking thousands of photos in the process. I'm gathering some...
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GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:45:47]
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Landlocked, home to mountains, deserts and the southernmost permafrost territories, Mongolia’s climate is harsh. Warm, often humid summers, give way to freezing winters where temperatures dip as low as [...]
Cambriangirl - Science! Geology! Writing! [12:20:24]
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So it’s holy because, well, Easter, and there’s also been a ton of writing in the past few days. I am still healing from surgery but it’s going great, and am back at work, attending art [...]
Nuestra percepción del grupo de animales dominante durante el mesozoico ha variado con el tiempo. Hasta el siglo XIX sus restos pudieron ser interpretados como huesos de dragón o de gigante. Su irrupción [...]
A terrifying video has appeared on Youtube showing two buses trapped by "shooting rocks" on the Karakorum Highway in
In the early 2000s, a new movement of vocal atheists arose, committed with religious fervor to the propagation of their faith that there is no God, and imagining that the world would be a much better place if [...]
I haven't worked much on meteorite impact craters for about 20 years, and have been delighted to find how much the concepts have changed since Chuck Simonds and I published our ideas about the role of [...]
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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to acquire two medium-sized native mammals, both roadkill specimens in good conditions: a fox and a badger: But I’ve found from bitter [...]
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Yes, that's right. As Susan Hough says: "Holy Crap!"
Who knows what the units really mean? They have totally mucked seismic hazard and risk. Anyway, this place is due for New [...]
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There’s no sense in decapitating a badger if you’re not going to make good use of the severed head. So here’s what I did with mine. First, a reminder of the state it was in after [...]
Geology in the West Country [16:33:00]
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April 7th - Bath Geological SocietyChernobyl exclusion zone - 30 years onDr. Lorraine Field, British Geological SurveyThe world’s worst nuclear disaster took place on the 26th April 1986 at the Chernobyl [...]
Through the Sandglass [16:21:40]
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It just doesn't stop, and the scale of the damage to communities and the environment is staggering. NASA recently released the pair of images, above, showing changes to the sediment system of Poyang Lake and [...]
As just proven by my daughter's card, it is now ridiculously easy for someone to make a new card from near-public info, and go on a shopping spree in Buffalo. They don't close off travel areas any more, [...]
Our fieldwork series continues with 'Questions for any rock face 7: tilted or folded rocks; what questions about tilting and folding might be asked at any rock exposure?'
Bedded sediments that were originally [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [11:31:00]
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Más de 300 años después de su extinción, un equipo internacional de investigadores ha publicado en internet el primer atlas tridimensional del esqueleto de esta ave no voladora, un icono entre las [...]
As part of the DFG-funded project Herbivore Niche Differentiation and the Intensification of Competition in African Savannahs, a PhD student position is opened in order to reconstruct and examine rates and [...]
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This highly decorated shell has a very long name: Kozlowskiellina (Megakozlowskiella) velata. It is related to Kozlowskiellina perlamellosa which is found in the Helderberg fauna of New York. The shell is [...]
Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! Lecture – The Poison in Our Food Supply by Thierry [...]
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Mapa geográfico do Alentejo e Algarve por Charles Jonnet 1850Faz hoje exactamente 200 anos sobre o nascimento de um dos fundadores da geologia Portuguesa, Charles Bonnet (1816-1867).Charles Jean Baptiste [...]