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Friday, 13 May 2016

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New research estimates probability of mega-earthquake in the Aleutians 

AGU Meetings [21:21:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (235 visits) info
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 US
A new study estimates the probability of a Magnitude 9+ earthquake in the Aleutian Islands—an event with sufficient power to create a mega-tsunami especially threatening to Hawai‘i. In the next 50 years, there is a 9 percent chance of such an event, according to researchers from University of Hawai‘i at

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Lounge of the Lab Lemming [14:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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“Lightning Claw” And The Evolution Of The Megaraptora 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [20:34:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (222 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; AU,US,SE
The opalised claw of “Lightning Claw”. Image courtesy of National Geographic. In September of last year, an intriguing new find was announced. The fragmentary, opalised skeleton (a cast of the [...]

When evolution just gives up 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [06:33:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (219 visits) info
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Damn, Megalonyx jeffersonii, you really let yourself

The Water Book 

Geological Society of London blog [12:31:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info
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‘We’ve built our entire world around water. Our temperature scale, our bodies. Water shapes our continents, flows through our oceans and rivers, creates atmosphere and weather – this one [...]

Fossil Hunters: Revealing fossils 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
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Geo Talk: One of the youngest EGU 2016 General Assembly delegates sends sensor to space 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (195 visits) info
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 CN,DE
Presenting at an international conference is daunting, even for the most seasoned of scientists; not so for Thomas Maier (a second year university student) who took his research (co-authored by  Lukas Kamm, a [...]

Geoscience and the EU Referendum – Have your say! 

Geological Society of London blog [16:18:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
category→culture_politics
The EU Referendum takes place on Thursday 23 June, and we want to hear from geoscientists about how the result will affect you and your work. To fill out our short survey, visit [...]

UPC #2 Preview 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [18:27:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
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 AR
Hehehe....This will be fun to finish :3 Argentina, 118 million years ago A female Tyrannotitan was on the hunt. Though she was seven and a half meters from nose to tail, she was not yet fully grown. She just [...]

Los gifs dinosaurianos de Animation Domination High-Def 

Koprolitos [09:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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ADHD (Animation Domination High Def) se creó como un espacio de animación del canal FOX que se emitió desde 2013 hasta 2015 en las noches de los sábados. De alguno de sus cortometrajes ya hablamos por [...]

Chicxulub Crater cores are not what JR fans are used to 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [06:03:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
The Liftboat Myrtle not only looks a lot different than the JOIDES Resolution. The cores we are drilling on the Liftboat Myrtle are a lot different [...]

Rugops Primus: The Loser Abelisaur 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [07:25:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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Let me just say that this abelisaur is one of a kind. It reached around 7 meters in length and could probably barely scoot over a ton or a ton and a half. A pathetic creature. It is known from a remarkably [...]

Friday fold: 3D syncline in Macigno Formation 

Mountain Beltway [14:58:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
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 Neogene,Paleogene; IT
Alan Pitts is the source of today’s fold, a beautiful 3D model of a differentially-weathered sycline in the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene deep water Macigno Formation from western Tuscany, Italy. [...]

New and traditional soil amendments – not so new after all? 

G-Soil [00:00:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
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 AT,FR,ES,GB,IT
Caroline Spann University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna As of increasing demands for 4F (food, feed, fiber and fuel production) from agricultural sites there are many researches being done on [...]

On Land and Water: the Southern Ocean and the Importance of Correct Names 

BEYONDbones [23:41:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (220 visits) info
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 IN,
As a representative of the Early Millennials, I can say with confidence most of us grew up with four oceans in our geographic vocabulary — the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans. Granted, to [...]

When evolution just gives up, part 2 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [16:16:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (211 visits) info
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[Previously on SV-POW!] And now: Damn, Wedel, you really let yourself

Earthquake activity in Bárðarbunga, Öræfajökull, Langjökull north volcanos 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:31:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info

 DK,IS
This is going to be a little compressed article. Since I’m currently in Iceland. I’ll be back in Denmark on 18-May. No GVP links now. I don’t think that my laptop can handle it (its slowly [...]

UPC #2- Tyrannotitan Chubutensis (Sub-Adult) Vs Genyodectes Serus 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [22:56:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
Our first fighter lived in the Chubut Province in Argentina around 118 million years ago. An adult T. chubutensis could grow be over 12 meters in length and weigh from 4-4.5 metric tons. T. chubutensis mainly [...]

New landslide videos from the last few days, including an impressive rockfall at Mont Granier 

The Landslide Blog [09:14:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info
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 ES,US,FR
Two new landslide videos have appeared on Youtube, including an impressive rockfall last weekend on Mont Granier in the French Prealps and a smaller collapse at Swimmer's Delight in

Earth’s Atmosphere Passes Significant Carbon Milestone 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:51:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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 AQ
This is from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado: May 12, 2016 | Earth’s atmosphere is crossing a major threshold, as high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the leading [...]

Software I use in both worlds: Windows & Ubuntu 

Digital Geography [19:38:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
I am somehow a messy guy. After 3 years now my OS was a bit “stuffed” and I decided to go with the flow, erased the whole HDD and installed the new Ubuntu 16.04. LTS Xenial Xerus. Aside from being [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A Recent Sponge Boring from South Carolina 

Wooster Geologists [06:01:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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 US
We’re not actually looking at fossils here, but this bivalve-coral-sponge assemblage from the very modern Myrtle Beach in South Carolina is to cool not to share. Jacob Nowell (Wooster ’18) picked [...]

Ultimate Primordial Carnage 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [19:03:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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 Jurassic
I hope that you all thoroughly enjoyed Fight #1. I put a fair amount of effort in it and is my only truly finished piece of writing I am truly satisfied with. Kudos to Carnoferox for helping me edit some [...]

Cruise Fantasy Plan 

AGU Meetings [17:44:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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When you work in the deep sea, with new and cutting edge technology, in environments that often change between visits, and in areas where the weather is unpredictable, cruises almost never go the way they were [...]

UPC Season 1 Predictions 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [06:48:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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Feel free to predict the winners of the 7 season 1 fights that have not been posted (the second is a WIP, but don’t worry because it’ll be done soon enough). This is just a for fun thing that [...]
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