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Saturday, 18 June 2016

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Online version of "Ores & Orogenesis" drawing lots of views 

Arizona Geology [16:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (230 visits) info
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AZGS is handing off maps and books 

Arizona Geology [16:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (215 visits) info
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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

Vulkane weltweit 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [18:54:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (185 visits) info

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Neues von den Vulkanen Chaparrastique, Santiaguito,

The Hawai'i That Was: Why Should We Care? 

Geotripper [10:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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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 [...]

Using climbing guides to examine changes in rockfall activity in the European Alps 

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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 virtual weathered-out dikes in a fjord in eastern Iceland 

Mountain Beltway [15:24:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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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 [...]

Die Münchner Schreibwerkstatt 1: Vergangenheit 

Mente et Malleo [13:11:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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 [...]

Löws Hosengate: Die Evolution ist schuld 

Mente et Malleo [15:06:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
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 [...]

Family Fistuliporidae (?) bryozoan colony from the Martin formation of Arizona 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (184 visits) info
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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 [...]

L'inattesa (ma non troppo) possibilità di tyrannosauroidi (giganti) africani 

Theropoda [11:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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Nel terzo più bel film sui dinosauri nella storia del cinema, un iper-vitaminico e ipo-realistico Spinosaurus fa letteralmente a cazzotti con un Tyrannosaurus. Aldilà della ovvia implausibilità biomeccanica [...]

MAMMA MOOSE, BABY MOOSE... GRIZZLY 

ARCHEA [20:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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Gravitationswellen-Nachweistechnik: Prasselnde Photonen 

Mente et Malleo [18:58:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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 [...]

Link: The Civil War Prisoner Camp That Became a Place of Horror | Smithsonian 

Mente et Malleo [07:52:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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 |

Disphyllum sp. coral from the Martin formation of Arizona 

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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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