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
Stephane on Blogger Earthquakes, geology and related topics... but not only [23:06:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Dank einer neuen Untersuchungsmethode ist es gelungen, den ersten
direkten Nachweis für einen bestimmten Entstehungsprozess von Diamanten
zu führen. Demnach entstehen Diamanten auch durch [...]
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
[...]
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 [...]
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.[...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Mountain Beltway [14:12:22]
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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 [...]
Heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours has triggered landslides across the Kumamoto Earthquake zone, killing at least three people and leaving two
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:32:44]
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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 (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 [...]
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 [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [21:42:00]
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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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ၄ရက္ေလာက္က မိုး ၄၊ ၅ ရက္ ဆက္တိုက္ရြာျပီးေနာက္ ေတာင္ေဘြတံတား [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]