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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

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Flyover Country—The next generation field-based research tool 

AGU Meetings [23:38:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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In December 2015, with the support of a National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER grant, the Flyover Country (FC) team of Amy Myrbo (University of Minnesota Research Associate), Shane Loeffler (2015 B.S. graduate of the University of Minnesota Duluth), Reed McEwan (University of Minnesota M.S. in Geology and Software Engineering) and Sijia Ai (University of Minnesota), launched FC as a geosciences mobile app for air travelers, road warriors and

Students Travel to the Middle East 

State of the Planet [23:12:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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Students from Columbia University and Tel Aviv University are traveling through Jordan and Israel to learn about environmental challenges facing the two countries. They'll be posting here about their experiences. You can also follow them on social media at

New EwF paper on the 1889 Chilik Earthquake (Mw8.0-8.3) in the Tien Shan 

Earthquakes without Frontiers [22:46:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
One of the focus areas of the EwF project is the Tien Shan, especially the northern part of the mountain range in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Here we can study how the continents deform as a far-field effect [...]

Día de visitas 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [20:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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Vista general del yacimiento El día ha amanecido nublado en Madrid, algo que de vez en cuando se agradece cuando se excava en un yacimiento donde los días pueden llegar a ser realmente calurosos. Hoy ha [...]

Neanderthals built underground structures 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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How we measure the chemical composition of Earth materials 

Wooster Geologists [18:24:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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San Diego, CA – If you’ve been following our adventures, you know that we’ve started a project on Black Mountain with our collaborators at the University of San Diego. We’ve dedicated a [...]

And suddenly, everything is different 

Water and Megacities [15:03:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
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It´s Monday morning, the first day of the new semester at the RWTH Aachen. Everything is quite normal, it´s half past seven, you have to catch the bus at eight, but still a lot of things left to do and [...]

Il dipartimento di Scienze della Terra monitora la frana del lungarno 

scienzeedintorni [14:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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Stamattina verso le 6.30 come è noto c'è stato un cedimento verticale del terreno sul lungarno Torrigiani, in riva sinistra dell'Arno, tra il Ponte alle Grazie e il Ponte Vecchio, dovuto a infiltrazioni di [...]

Ätna: strombolianische Eruptionen 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [13:21:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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Intensive strombolianische Aktivität am Ätna auf

Métodos de prospección Geofísica aplicados a yacimientos arqueológicos de medios kársticos 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [10:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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Nos ha llegado información de este interesante Seminario “Métodos de prospección Geofísica aplicados a yacimientos arqueológicos de medios kársticos”, que se desarrollará en el CENIEH (Burgos), [...]

Las bestias prehistóricas de Arthur Adams 

Koprolitos [08:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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Arthur Adams es uno de los dibujantes estadounidenses de cómic más reputados. Originario de Massachusetts (Estados Unidos) aunque afincado en California, abandonó su trabajo como pizzero a los diecinueve [...]

May's Readers Choice o' The Geoblogosphere! 

Rosetta Stones [06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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Come see which geoblogosphere discoveries readers chose to share! Much delicious geology within: -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Planet Earth magazines 

Geology in the West Country [21:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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Planet Earth magazines - free to a good home.Issued quarterly, complete set from:- Summer 2002 to Spring 2010, then Winter 2011 to Autumn 2015.(NERC did not print hard copy between and including Summer 2010 to [...]

What Was Tyrannosaurus Rex Like? 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (207 visits) info
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Geotech #15 

Ontario-geofish [18:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
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Not much really happening, but nothing much happening anywhere else. "It never rains in hot Trawnna, but let me lay it on ya, ....." Thunderstorms on the

Rock Gardens at Scotts Bluff 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [16:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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Scotts Bluff mid-distance, viewed from the Wildcat Hills in northwest Nebraska.Between 1914 and 1918, concerned citizens of Nebraska contacted the Department of the Interior in Washington DC four times—twice [...]

How to create mountain ranges in QGIS? 

Digital Geography [14:09:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
Last time we had the task to create mountain ranges polygons for the whole world. I prepared a small tutorial referred to that. Maybe you can find something interesting for you. It will show you a model on how [...]

Great walls of fire – Vitrification and thermal engineering in the British Iron Age 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:33:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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It’s long been recognised the peoples of European prehistory occasionally, and quite deliberately, melted the rocks from which their hilltop enclosures were made. But why did they do it? In today’s blog [...]

Omaggio al progetto Saurian 

Theropoda [12:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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Non sono mai stato un appassionato consumatore di videogiochi. Io sono della generazione del Nintendo 8bit, per intenderci, che sicuramente impallidisce di fronte alle nuove generazioni videoludiche. [...]

An SV-POW! challenge: what is this vertebra? 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:08:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (211 visits) info
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Here is a vertebra that Matt and I saw on our recent travels through Utah: I will explain in a subsequent post where we saw it, who gave us access, where and when it is from, and so on. For now, I want [...]

Airliner Chronicles: Stuck on a Plane with a Proselytizer... 

Geotripper [08:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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And really, I felt sorry for the poor guy who was stuck sitting with me on the plane flight from St. Louis to LAX. Oh, I wasn't trying to convert the poor guy into some religion. No, he got the full-court [...]
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