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Monday, 28 March 2016

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Geoarqueología y registros paleoambientales holocenos en el Noroeste argentino 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [23:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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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

Mind you, it’s not all dead badgers in my kitchen 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [22:52:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
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There’s also this: As Orson Welles is supposed to have said: My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other

Proposed Rules Coming Down the Pipeline for Gas Gathering and Transmission Lines 

Mineral Law Blog [22:06:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (185 visits) info
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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 [...]

The fun of buying directly from China 

Ontario-geofish [21:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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 Ordovician; US,CA
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, and Yet One of the Most Widespread 

Geotripper [19:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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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 [...]

Moon's tilt and origin of water on Earth 

Geology in the West Country [16:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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Dramatic change in the moon’s tilt may help us trace the origin of water on Earth Read

Spectacular Images of Mount St. Helens's Eruption 

Rosetta Stones [15:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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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... -- [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Mother Tree 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:45:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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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 [...]

Holy moly writing fest, Batman! 

Cambriangirl - Science! Geology! Writing! [12:20:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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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 [...]

Imaginando dinosaurios I: Despertando la imaginación 

Koprolitos [11:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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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 of two coaches trapped by “shooting rocks” in Pakistan 

The Landslide Blog [10:11:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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 MN,PK
A terrifying video has appeared on Youtube showing two buses trapped by "shooting rocks" on the Karakorum Highway in

Lessons from the friendship between a Christian and an atheist 

The GeoChristian [06:36:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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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 [...]

New model for the Ries impact crater, Germany 

Geology in Motion [02:38:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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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 [...]

Happy Easter! I celebrated by decapitating a fox and a badger 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [00:25:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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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 [...]

Oklahoma is now officially the most dangerous place in the world for earthquakes 

Ontario-geofish [21:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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Reference 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 [...]

Defleshing a badger head: a pictorial guide 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [20:30:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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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 [...]

April 7th - Chernobyl exclusion zone - 30 years on 

Geology in the West Country [16:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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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 [...]

Sand wars continue, unabated 

Through the Sandglass [16:21:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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 AU
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 [...]

Beware of Mastercard Bearing Nasty Gifts 

Ontario-geofish [14:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info

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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, [...]

Questions to ask at any rock face about tilted and folded rocks 

Earth Learning Idea [13:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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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 [...]

Reconstruccion 3D del Dodo 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [11:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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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 [...]

Para hacer la Tesis en el Naturkundemuseum de Berlin 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [10:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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 US,DE,GB
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 [...]

Kozlowskiellina (Megakozlowskiella) velata brachiopod from the Bois d'Arc formation of Oklahoma 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (185 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
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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 [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 3/28-4/3 

BEYONDbones [03:00:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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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 [...]

200 anos sobre a vida de Charles Bonnet (1816-1867), fundador da Comissão Geológica 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [01:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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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 [...]
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