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Saturday, 18 June 2016
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We are making progress in finding homes for many of the historical materials in the AZGS library in preparation for closing the Tucson headquarters and relocating to the University of Arizona.
We have over 21,000 copies of topo maps covering all ~2,000 quadrangles in the state, plus another ~10,000 copies of older editions and the 15" quadrangles that are out of print. Earlier this
Neues von den Vulkanen Chaparrastique, Santiaguito,
Lapakahi State Park on the Big Island is the remains of an ancient fishing village that was occupied for hundreds of years. Not a single plant in the picture is native to Hawai'i.
In a lot of ways, a post [...]
In a recent paper, Temme (2015) has used descriptions of rockfall risk in Alpine climbing guides to examine the effects of climate change on the degradation of permafrost and the resulting increased occurrence [...]
Two 3D models for you today, both produced by my student Marissa Dudek, using photo sets I gathered in Iceland: Photoscan model by Marissa Dudek (That one has paleomag holes drilled into it!) Photoscan model [...]
Der Tod meiner Frau Ruth vor nun schon einem Vierteljahr brachte mich zunächst nur dazu, hier im Blog einen Nachruf zu verfassen. Aber bald wurde mir bewusst, dass wir in den bald vierzig Jahren unseres [...]
Wie das? wird sich der erstaunte Leser fragen. Hier die kurze Antwort. Die Anatomie des menschlichen Hodensacks ist zwei besonderen Schritten der Wirbeltier-Evolution geschuldet: dem Landgang und der [...]
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One of the most mysterious fossils that I found in the Martin formation of Arizona is this large chuck of silicified rock. The softball sized piece is composed entirely of a single colony of some sort of coral [...]
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Spinosaurus fa letteralmente a cazzotti con un Tyrannosaurus.
Aldilà della ovvia implausibilità biomeccanica [...]
Jetzt, wo die Gravitationswellenastronomie vor der Tür steht, bietet sich eine gute Gelegenheit, sich näher mit den dafür eingesetzten Detektoren zu beschäftigen. Die grundlegende Funktionsweise der [...]
Erinnern wir uns daran, wie ritterlich die konföderierten Gentlemen aus Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind wirklich waren: The Civil War Prisoner Camp That Became a Place of Horror |
These next two specimens represent a new (to me) genera: Disphyllum. They are a colonial rugose coral with closely set, yet independent calices. It looks similar to Eridophyllum but the calices are shorter. [...]
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