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Monday, 04 July 2016
Faults around the Eastern Basin & Range region: (2) Historical Surface Rupturing Earthquakes
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A hypothetical “nuclear extinction” of the dinosaurs. Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons; edited by me. Although an asteroid (or comet) impact event is the prominent theory for the [...]Keck Students Doing Rock Hard Research
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland – Guest Blogger Ben Kumpf (’18)Virtual field trip to Kinkell Braes, Scotland
Walking along the shore east from St. Andrews, Scotland, along the seaside sandstones of Kinkell Braes, you encounter several extraordinary examples of geology. It’s a great place for the next stop on [...]My Indian experiences
Now that my journey to India is nearly over, I would like to share some of the experiences that I’ve made during the three month stay. A warm / hot welcome My two fellow students Marc and Erik and I [...]Imaggeo on Mondays: Why is groundwater so important?
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Groundwater is an often underestimated natural resource, but it is vital to the functioning of both natural and urban environments. Indeed, it is a large source of drinking water for communities world-wide, as [...]
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Book review — The Grand Canyon: Monument to an Ancient Earth
The Grand Canyon: Monument to an Ancient Earth (2016), edited and written by a number of highly-qualified, predominately Christian authors, is a devastating critique of the geological arguments of young-Earth [...]Canada Day Cottage Report
Beautiful weekend even if Canada Day was a washout. That's ok, because we really need the rain. Only a few mm, not enough to cause landslides. This week's bug is the horsefly, by the millions. I have a [...]Kilauea und Kliuchevskoi
Am Kilauea auf Hawaii ist Lavastrom 61g weiterhin aktiv. Er fließt vom Puʻu ʻŌʻō in südwestlicher Richtung über die Küstenebene. Bei den letzten Messungen am Samstag war der Lavastrom noch gut 3 km [...]Wie das Klimagas Kohlendioxid zum Rohstoff wird
Forscher haben einen Katalysator entdeckt, der das Klimagas Kohlendioxid hochselektiv in Ethylen umwandelt – einen wichtigen Ausgangsstoff für die chemische Industrie. In der Zeitschrift „Nature [...]Freiheit für den Profit oder Liberalismus für das Leben? Ein Nachruf auf Friedrich August von Hayek
In einer Blogdiskussion zur so genannten „Islamisierung“ rückte der Kommentator @Werner die Erfindung und Zulassung der „Anti-Baby-Pille“ in die Nähe einer [...]An Ephemeral Sauropod Defense
In their 2009 paper, A New Basal Sauropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the early evolution of sauropods Remes et al describe Spinophorosaurus nigerensis and assess its [...]Wie die BGR einmal versuchte, die wärmende Treibhauswirkung von CO2 zu widerlegen
In den 2000er Jahren verbreitete die Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) in der Politik und über die Medien, mit Hochglanzbroschüren und in einem populärwissenschaftlichen Buch die [...]Rocky play-park; design your own
Ayudas a la Investigación de la SEP
La Sociedad Española de Paleontología ha convocado 7 ayudas dirigidas a jóvenes investigadores en PaleontologíaAYUDAS A LA INVESTIGACIÓN 2016CONVOCATORIA: La Sociedad Española de Paleontología (SEP), de [...]The Hawai'i That Was: Mauna O Wakea, the Opening to the Heavens, and the Realm of Ice
Postdoc in Macroecology/Macroevolution, University of Chicago
Postdoc in Macroecology/Macroevolution, University of ChicagoClosing date: 31 August 2016Seeking a postdoctoral scholar to participate in an ongoing collaborative research project (D. Jablonski-K. Roy-J. W. [...]Quote: Alfred Wallace On Human Driven Extinction
He writes in The Malay Archipelago (1869): It seems sad that on one hand such exquisite creatures should live out their lives and exhibit their charms only in these wild, inhospitable regions, doomed for ages [...]The Science Behind That Awesome Photo You Saw on Twitter or Facebook
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