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Sunday, 01 May 2016

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Images of few of Iceland volcanoes 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:17:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
category→science_technology
 DK,IS
When I flew to Denmark on 14th of April the weather was mostly clear skies over Iceland. This allowed me to take pictures of few of the volcanoes in the flight path I was going. Due to constrains … Continue reading

KwaZulu-Natal Holiday: The Midlands 

Georneys [23:10:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 ZA,ZW
Today I’m sharing some more pictures from our recent holiday in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa. You can see my first post about an impressive waterfall here. Today I’m sharing some pictures from an area known as The Midlands. This region is located inland of Durban and Pietermaritzburg and consists of rolling green hills, a gentle landscape located in between the low-lying, flat coastal area and the elevated, steep landscape of

1964 Quake The Great Alaska Earthquake Magnitude 9.2 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (215 visits) info
category→recreation
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The First Feathered Dinosaurs (In Art) 

DinoGoss [17:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
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 Triassic; US,LS,GB,IN
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The first illustration of a hypothetical "pro-avis" by Pycraft, 1906Feathered non-avialan dinosaurs seem commonplace now, and it's hard to believe that there was a time, in living memory for some of us, when [...]

New Madrid Fault Zone Activated by Oklahoma 

Ontario-geofish [13:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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Most likely.  I must be getting old adding qualifications.  I usually call it 'absolute' if it's over 80% correct, and I believe in this. Earthquake season has started with the arrival of gas frack [...]

Do not miss this: video of a catastrophic landslide in loess in Kyrgyzstan 

The Landslide Blog [11:24:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 KG
An astonishing video has appeared on Youtube showing a video in, I assume, loess in Kyrgyzstan a few days ago. The landslide killed a teenage

Stoliczka, 1863–1866. The fossil Cephalopoda of the Cretaceous rocks of southern India. Ammonitidae 

kreidefossilien.de [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
Ferdinand Stoliczka, 1863–1866. Cretaceous Fauna of southern India: The fossil Cephalopoda of the Cretaceous rocks of southern India. Ammonitidae (parts 1–13). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of [...]

What is soil chemistry and what does that mean to me? 

SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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Ah, the “litmus test.” Do you remember that from your high school science days? You dip a piece of white litmus paper into a solution, and it turns red or

Necessary Sacrifices 

The Bite Stuff [01:29:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (232 visits) info
Today I step away from something that has occupied my life for … over two decades now. I have no idea if I will ever return. It saved my life when I needed it to, and stepping away is almost … [...]

Erdrutsch in Kirgisistan (Video) 

Mente et Malleo [17:51:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (218 visits) info
category→business
 DE,KG,CZ
Erdrutsche sind, zumindest auf Video, immer eine wieder eindrucksvolle Naturgewalt. Und der auf diesem Video macht da keine Ausnahme. Dave Petley vom Landslide Blog (von dem ich das ganze hab) hält das Video [...]

Plotting the destruction of Canada's cartels 

Ontario-geofish [14:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 CA
Canada loves its cartels and monopolies.  In fact, the government once openly formed the Uranium Cartel, until that was perceived as bad political optics.  After that, they went underground.  The driver is [...]

Cosmos Carl Sagan Episode - 01 - The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [12:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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Ptilopora bryozoan from the Hungry Hollow member at Arkona 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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 CA,CH
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One one of my regular trips up to Arkona, Canada I found this small scrap of fossil and hung onto to it as it reminded me of something. Well that something turns out to be a piece of a Bryozoan called [...]

Stoliczka, 1863–1866. The fossil Cephalopoda of the Cretaceous rocks of southern India. Ammonitidae 

kreidefossilien.de [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
Ferdinand Stoliczka, 1863–1866. Cretaceous Fauna of southern India: The fossil Cephalopoda of the Cretaceous rocks of southern India. Ammonitidae (parts 1–13). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of [...]

Rock Will Not Be Contained: Problems at the Ferguson Slide near Yosemite 

Geotripper [07:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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 Jurassic; US
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The Ferguson Slide today, April 30, 2016 I thought of an Ian Malcom quote from Jurassic Park (1983) today:  "If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be [...]
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