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Monday, 25 April 2016
Introduction In this post we are going to look at how to get weather forecast data and display it as a layer in a desktop geographical information system (GIS). The tools that you need are: A desktop GIS. I am going to use QGIS (free software) but I have done this with ESRI ArcMap as well A spreadsheet application. I will be using MS Excel but I have also tried this with Softmaker Office and I am sure LibreOffice (free software) will work or indeed any other spreadsheet application The Natural [...]
Over the weekend I participated in a kayak race that was held in the lovely little coastal town Hermanus, South Africa. The race was held on a lagoon with a beautiful background of mountains that are part of the Cape Fold Belt. You’ve seen pictures of this fold belt before here on Georneys. For example, here the belt is featured in one of Callan’s “Friday Fold” posts. However, these mountains
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [22:57:00]
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(142 visits) category→arts_entertainment GB
Friday the 22nd April saw the official launch of Dr. David Hone’s first book, The Tyrannosaur Chronicles (Bloomsbury Sigma), at Queen Mary University London, in the rather lovely book-lined Octagon of [...]
In southern Greenland in summer, rivers have been streaming off the ice sheet, pouring cold fresh water into the fjords. A new study tracks where that meltwater goes—with surprising
The earthquake swarm continues in northwest Arizona near the Nevada border. There were more than a dozen events during the past week, with the largest being a magnitude 2.7 yesterday (Sunday) just after [...]
The poor Mexicans are trying to fend off earthquake panic. They've had a few little earthquakes and people naturally associate 'momentum' with this, especially after the recent events.
I love this area, [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [16:00:23]
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(188 visits) category→science_technology AT,IT,CN
Outside EGU General Assembly 2016. Credit: Kai Boggild/EGU (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu) The past week in Vienna was a busy one! Hordes of Earth, ocean and planetary scientists came together to present, [...]
A guest post from Exploration Geoscientist Ben Kilhams, Communications Officer of our Petroleum Group… Everyone loves a good dinosaur. For many, their first fossil discovery or interaction with a museum [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(261 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; DE,US
To close out this series of posts featuring fossils I found in the Bois D'Arc formation of Oklahoma, I have a few pieces left from my finds that don't merit a full blog post entry so I'm consolidating them [...]
Koprolitos [08:49:00]
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(120 visits) category→science_technology FR,US,RU,PH,AR
En la I Convención Paleontológica Norteamericana de Chicago (1969), John Ostrom (1928-2005) rechaza la convención de que los dinosaurios fueran animales de sangre fría partiendo de que caminaban erguidos y [...]
The new ELI published today is 'The toilet roll of time; make a geological timeline to take home'.
This activity has been devised to address the common lack of knowledge about geological time. Research has [...]
A few weeks ago I took a strenuous ramble to accomplish a small thing — returning a stone to its home. The journey took me through some beautiful and interesting country, and the whole thing was the [...]
Today is World Penguin Day, which makes a good excuse to catch up on fossil penguin blogging. Recently, James Proffitt and colleagues published a study on fossil penguin neuroanatomy. As we’ve discussed [...]
A quick report today on a delightful book – The Floating Egg: Episodes in the Making of Geology, by Roger Osborne. It’s a collection of pieces, some only a few sentences long, others full essays, [...]
The Landslide Blog [09:26:13]
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(283 visits) category→science_technology BR,CN
Espirito Santo rock joint collapses There is an extraordinary video on Facebook showing massive collapses of sheeting joints in Espirito Santo Brazil. I cannot embed the video, but really recommend that you [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:56:00]
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Entre los trabajos presentados en el I IMERP/ XIV EJIP que tuvo lugar la semana pasada en la localidad de Alpuente (Valencia), nuestro compañero Alejandro Serrano dio una charla sobre la reconstrucción [...]
Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by Miles Sparks (age: 8): Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by our Block Party interactive play area and try your own hand [...]
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