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Monday, 02 May 2016
Earthlearningidea translations into Slovak and a popular ELI in April
Monday Geology Picture: Granite Boulder in the Forest
For this week’s “Monday Geology Picture” here’s a shot of a pretty granite boulder that I spotted during a forest hike in the Constantia region of the Cape Town, South Africa. No doubt, this boulder consists of ~550 million year old Cape Granite. There’s no scale in this picture, but the boulder is about 2 metersEuropäer mischten sich am Ende der Eiszeit mit Einwanderern aus dem Nahen Osten
Forscher schreiben die genetische Geschichte der Menschen in Europa neu – auch mithilfe von Proben aus den Höhlen der Schwäbischen Alb Die einzige bis heute überlebende Menschenart, der [...]Pint of Science 2016 is coming to Sheffield - and I am involved! Bubbles, Beer, and Volcanic eruptions!
This year Pint of Science is coming to Sheffield. I will be in esteemed company with Dr Ed Daw who will be talking about gravitational waves detected as part of the LIGO experiment in a [...]Rocks and views of Fairmont Ridge
Fairmont Ridge is the grassy upland that forms the backdrop to San Leandro. As it happens, East Bay Regional Park District owns much of it as part of Lake Chabot Regional Park. It has some rocks, which [...]Earthquake activity in Bárðarbunga volcano (Week 17)
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After a short period of quiet, it seems that Bárðarbunga volcano has started again making earthquake swarms. The source of this activity is the same as before, inflation of Bárðarbunga volcano and [...]
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There's No Place Like This: Celebrating 100 Years of America's Best Idea
The location of the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide, as caught on that amazing video
Using Google Earth it is possible to track down the location of the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide. This is an area with many similar landslides, some of which have also displayed high levels ofMark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 5/2-5/8
Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by Dylan (age: 9): Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by our Block Party interactive play area and try your own hand building a [...]3D models to spin and twist
More 3D models: digital facsimiles of real rock samples. Check them out and explore! Clinker from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Ripple marks from the Rose Hill Formation, West Virginia: Meta-komatiite from [...]Fritsch, 1910. Miscellanea palaeontologica II. Mesozoica
Anton Fritsch, 1910. Miscellanea palaeontologica II. Mesozoica. (Selbstverlag – in Commision bei Fr. Rivnác) Prag: 25 S., 6 Abb., 10Seeing Stars with James Wooten: Exciting Rare Mercury Transit Next Monday!
Jupiter is now high in the south at dusk. It outshines all stars we ever see at night, so you can’t miss it. Mars and Saturn become late evening objects this month. Tonight, May 2, Mars rises in the [...]Taking Flight (Remotely) over East Africa
"Despite an early love affair with technology encouraged by my computer scientist, Silicon Valley-based parents, even I had a hard time envisioning a world in which I would spend a summer flying fixed wing [...]Imaggeo on Mondays: The waxing Earth
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DE,CN,IN,
These incredible images of Earth were acquired from the European MSG-2 satellite on July 21, 2009. The MSG, which stands for Meteosat Second Generation, satellites are operated as a series of satellites which [...]
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Laelaps is Making Tracks to Scientific American!
After a three-year run, Laelaps is moving to a new blogL'evoluzione della biodiversità dei dinosauri tra Giurassico e Cretaceo e le sue cause geologiche e climatiche
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Cretaceous; PL,IT,US,ZM,CH,ZA,IN
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On To the Future: SACNAS and GSA
My new sauropod book with Mark Hallett will be out soon
Publisher’s description here, Amazon page here. I’ll have a lot more to say about this in the future, but the short version is that I met Mark Hallett at one of my first SVP meetings in 1997 or [...]Fritsch, 1910. Miscellanea palaeontologica II. Mesozoica
Anton Fritsch, 1910. Miscellanea palaeontologica II. Mesozoica. (Selbstverlag – in Commision bei Fr. Rivnác) Prag: 25 S., 6 Abb., 10Top concepts:
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