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Monday, 25 April 2016

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Reconstrucciones tridimensionales de cráneos de cocodrilos en el 1st IMERP-XIV EJIP 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (584 visits) info
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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 tridimensional de las cavidades contenidas dentro del cráneo de los cocodrilos. Durante su presentación, Alejandro explicó los pasos seguidos para llevar a cabo las reconstrucciones, así

Two new landslide videos: Espirito Santo, Brazil and an unknown site in SW China 

The Landslide Blog [09:26:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (283 visits) info
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 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 take a look.  This is the moment of collapse: . The collapse occurred in Pancas County of Espirito Santo in an area of granite massifs. The video was posted by Heinrich Theodor Frank, who provides the following comment

Misc. fossil bits and pieces from the Bois D'Arc formation 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (261 visits) info
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 Devonian; DE,US
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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 [...]

In Greenland, Exactly Where Meltwater Enters the Ocean Matters 

State of the Planet [18:51:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (217 visits) info
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 GL
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

Geological time-line - evolution of life on Earth 

Earth Learning Idea [18:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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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 little bit of Mexico earthquake activity 

Ontario-geofish [17:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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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, [...]

Quake swarm continues in northwest Arizona 

Arizona Geology [17:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
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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 [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 4/25-5/1 

BEYONDbones [03:00:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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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 [...]

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles book launch 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [22:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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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 [...]

Imaginando dinosaurios V: Inteligencia sauria 

Koprolitos [08:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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 FR,US,RU,PH,AR
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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 [...]

Proof of evolution that you can find on your own body 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (247 visits) info
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The Floating Egg, by Roger Osborne 

Mountain Beltway [15:15:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info
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 GB
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, [...]

Monday Geology Picture: Folded Mountains in Hermanus, South Africa 

Georneys [23:22:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (195 visits) info
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 ZA
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 [...]

Imaggeo on Monday: a big thank you from the EGU 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [16:00:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
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 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, [...]

From Cloud to GIS: Getting Weather Data. 

Digital Geography [23:26:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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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 [...]

Reading the Mind of the Oldest Penguin 

March of the Fossil Penguins [16:12:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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 circumambulation of Claremont Canyon 

Oakland Geology [17:02:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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 [...]

Dinner with a dinosaur – farewell Dippy, and thanks for the inspiration 

Geological Society of London blog [11:06:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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 [...]
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