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Tuesday, 21 June 2016

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Keck 2016 Arrives in Iceland 

Wooster Geologists [23:25:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
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Hafnafjörður, Iceland – What a fantastic day! Dr. Ben Edwards and I are leading a 6-student Keck trip to Iceland to study a glaciovolcanic ridge. It was a long travel day, but everyone (and their luggage) arrived safe and sound. No need to waste any time – soon after we set up camp, we headed

Crossing Boundaries for the Environment 

State of the Planet [23:14:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (226 visits) info
It is not the concept of a borderless nature that should serve as a model to facilitate cross-border dialogue and cooperation. Rather, it is that nature’s systems are interconnected and their borders are open to

Earthquake faults and active tectonics around the Eastern Basin and Range region: (1) the Wasatch Fault 

Stephane on Blogger Earthquakes, geology and related topics... but not only [23:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (657 visits) info
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Jim McCalpin brought us -a group of 22 lucky guys- all around the eastern Basin-and-Range province, through Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. We could admire beautiful landscapes and discover stunning [...]

Forecasting Climate, with Help from the Baobab Tree 

State of the Planet [22:29:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (228 visits) info
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To improve climate forecasts, scientists study the complex interactions and mechanisms within the climate system. But they also need to hear from potential users of climate information, such as farmers, to get [...]

Hauchdünne Scheiben aus Diamant geben Einblick in geologische Prozesse 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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     Dank einer neuen Untersuchungsmethode ist es gelungen, den ersten direkten Nachweis für einen bestimmten Entstehungsprozess von Diamanten zu führen. Demnach entstehen Diamanten auch durch [...]

Signifikanter Humusverlust in Wäldern der Bayerischen Alpen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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     Wenn Wetterphänomene wie Trockenheit oder Starkregen weiter zunehmen, sind die Wälder der Alpen in Gefahr. Denn eine Studie der Technischen Universität München (TUM) weist einen signifikanten [...]

Leave Unique Meetings to the Experts: HMNS Has Special Events Down to a Science 

BEYONDbones [21:31:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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  by Ashley Zalta Recent studies have found the current attention span of a human is between eight and nine seconds. That’s the same attention span of a goldfish! To say the least, your typical [...]

Nepal Drains Imja Tsho 

Lake Scientist [20:26:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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The number of glacial lakes has been increasing in recent years in the so-called Third Pole region of the Earth, which encompasses the snow-covered mountains that surround the Tibetan Plateau.[...] The post [...]

Approach to Titus Canyon: Up and Over White Pass 

Looking for Detachment [18:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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Getting past Tan Mountain on the trip down the Titus Canyon road always feels like a milestone to me, not so much because the road gets better—it maybe does get better, for a while, or maybe I just get used [...]

Saturn moon Enceladus’ ice shell likely thinner than expected 

AGU Meetings [16:04:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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A vast ocean of water beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be more accessible than previously thought, according to new research. A new study has revealed that near the moon’s poles, the [...]

Porphyritic rhyolite dike seen on the beach at Cushendun 

Mountain Beltway [14:12:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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 GB,US,,AU
At the opposite end of the beach at Cushendun, Northern Ireland, we found some outcrops of schist – I’ll be featuring some of them as Friday folds later this week. But cutting across the schist was [...]

Kumamoto earthquake: post-seismic landslides kill at least three, two missing 

The Landslide Blog [09:43:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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Heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours has triggered landslides across the Kumamoto Earthquake zone, killing at least three people and leaving two

SHIPS A'HOY 

ARCHEA [08:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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Minor earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes peninsula 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:32:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
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Today (21-June-2016) a minor earthquake swarm took place on Reykjanes Peninsula, this earthquake swarm was located close to a mountain called Keilir. This was not a large earthquake swarm, around 20 [...]

Eduard Suess und die Geologie der Alpen 

Geschichte der Geologie [22:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (195 visits) info
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Eduard Suess (1831-1914) war ein österreichischer Geologe der viele der noch heutigen Grundprinzipien des tektonischen Aufbaus der Alpen erkannte und beschrieb. Eduard Suess im Jahre 1869, nach einem [...]

Bedingungen für das Leben auf Ozean-Planeten 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info
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     Forscher aus Belgien, Österreich, Frankreich, Berlin und Bremen haben eine Studie veröffentlicht, in der untersucht wurde, unter welchen Bedingungen Leben auf Ozean-Planeten – also Planeten mit [...]

Mesozoic Miscellany 86 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [21:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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In the NewsThe most complete ctenochasmid pterosaur to date has been described in PLoS One, a juvenile specimen of Gladocephaloideus. Two new (but pretty scrappy) theropods from Patagonia have been described: [...]

Wooster Geologist high in the air! 

Wooster Geologists [20:31:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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Editor’s note: The following post is from guest blogger Annette Hilton (’17) about her extraordinary research experiences this summer. Annette gets around: You may remember her post last summer [...]

Passt in keine Schublade: Ein mysteriöser fossiler Meteorit 

Mente et Malleo [19:56:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
Wenn die ganze Zeit Zeugs aus dem Weltraum auf die Erde herabregnet, wo sind dann eigentlich die ganzen fossilen Meteorite ? Das ist so ein Argument, welches gerne auch von Kreationisten vorgebracht wird. Ein [...]

Als Religionswissenschaftler im Kreuzfeuer von Verschwörungsmythen – Ein Aspekt von Digital Religion 

Mente et Malleo [17:46:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
lichtung manche meinen lechts und rinks kann man nicht velwechsern werch ein illtum (Ernst Jandl) Am Freitag hatte ich ein faszinierendes – aber auch ein wenig bedrückendes – Erlebnis. Ich nahm an [...]

ေတာင္ေဘြတံတား Taungbwe Bridge 

Tint Lwin Swe [15:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ၄ရက္ေလာက္က မိုး ၄၊ ၅ ရက္ ဆက္တိုက္ရြာျပီးေနာက္ ေတာင္ေဘြတံတား [...]

Los dinosaurios de colorear de April Glaser 

Koprolitos [09:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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April Glaser, más conocida en la red como @aprilify, es una joven norteamericana que a través de su instagram va publicando selfies y escenas cotidianas con su marido o sus mascotas. Pero entre la gran [...]

Scenes from a Strawberry Solstice on the Tuolumne River 

Geotripper [08:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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Tonight was a unique astronomical event, a Strawberry Moon on a summer solstice, the first since I was a child back in 1967. There's nothing significant in this other than human number-keeping, but it seemed [...]

Meet the Volunteers Who Have ‘Donated Their Bodies to Science’ 

BEYONDbones [00:00:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
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by Gail Peterkin, HMNS Volunteer “Donate your body to science — volunteer at the Houston Museum of Natural Science!” Or so the tagline goes. Apparently, some volunteers have interpreted the [...]
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