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Sunday, 01 May 2016
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:17:56]
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(159 visits) 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
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
DinoGoss [17:40:00]
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(115 visits) category→science_technology Triassic; US,LS,GB,IN
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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
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 … [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(148 visits) category→science_technology CA,CH
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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