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Wednesday, 13 July 2016

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Nuovi resti di Aoniraptor? Ehm... benvenuto, Gaulicho! 

Theropoda [21:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (729 visits) info
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Nel recente post in cui ho parlato di Taurovenator e Aoniraptor (Motta et al. 2016), entrambi basati su resti frammentari dalla formazione Huincul, accennai ad un altro esemplare proveniente dalla medesima formazione, menzionato brevemente in un abstract alcuni anni fa. L'esemplare, noto con il nome informale di “Nototyrannus”, era descritto come molto simile a Deltadromeus e caratterizzato da

DFI Announces the 2016 Outstanding Project Award Winner 

GeoPrac.net [14:52:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (720 visits) info
Hawthorne, NJ (July 7, 2016): The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is proud to announce that Hayward Baker is the 2016 Outstanding Project Award (OPA) winner for the design and construction of foundations at the International Market Place in Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii. The award will be presented at the DFI International Conference on Deep Foundations, Seepage Control and Remediation (41st Annual Conference) in New York City, October 12-15, 2016. Opening in August 2016, the International [...]

Geotechnical Monitoring Technology Seminar 

GeoPrac.net [14:34:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (684 visits) info
Hexagon Geosystems is offereing an inexpensive short course on geotechnical monitoring in Denver in on July 21.  Time is short, but it’s not too late to register. July 21 2016 - Hexagon Geosystems - [...]

Large-scale reforestation could lead to slight reduction in global warming 

AGU Meetings [17:00:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (489 visits) info
Planting new forests could contribute more to the mitigation of climate change than previously thought, according to a new study. This is due to the combined effect of land use changes and the enhanced carbon [...]

In-Situ Has New Sales and Rental Catalog 

GeoPrac.net [07:53:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
In-Situ, the makers of a variety of pressure transducers, piezometers, and other water monitoring equipment, have released a new sales and rental catalog. Some times it can be frustrating to have to wait for a [...]

Neue Hinweise auf hohes Erdbebenrisiko für Istanbul 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
     Die Beobachtung von Erdplattenbewegungen unter Wasser war bisher kaum möglich, da Satellitennavigation dort nicht funktioniert. Neuartige Vermessungs-Systeme, die auf Abstandsmessung per Schall [...]

The Hawai'i That Had Never Been: A Mountain That is Younger Than Me, Mauna Ulu 

Geotripper [09:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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Mauna Ulu, a mountain that originated between 1969 and 1974 So much of geology is incremental. A rock slides from a cliff top, a river carries sand grains downstream, a glacier slowly pushes debris down a [...]

Extreme Heat Coming For Much of North America Next Week 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:06:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
The long range model guidance has been giving strong hints that some real heat is on the way next week, and it will cover a large portion of the U.S. and extend into Canada as well. Long range forecasting is [...]

Cymaclymenia sp. goniatite from Morocco 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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Here is another pyritized Goniatite from Morocco that I am calling Cymaclymenia sp.  This is based on the same Facebook lead that helped me ID the Prionoceras lentis specimen in the previous post.There [...]

EPA's Science Advisory Board Reviews Draft Assessment on Hydraulic Fracturing 

Energy Policy Blog [17:29:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
In June 2015, EPA released a draft assessment of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing (HF) for oil and gas on drinking water resources. This draft assessment was then presented to EPA’s Science [...]

Geotech #17 - Desert Engineering 

Ontario-geofish [18:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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I've been away from this for over a month.  Since then, there has been virtually no rain.  Under these conditions, you can make a big pile of dirt, and nothing will happen to it.  The cottage got 2 inches [...]

GeoPolicy: 8 ways to engage with policy makers 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [11:46:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
Scientific research is usually verbally communicated to policy officials or through purposefully written documents. This occurs at all levels of governance (local, national, and international). This [...]

Neoproterozoic Atmospheric Oxygen 

Reporting on a Revolution [19:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (655 visits) info
Captured from air bubbles trapped in 815 million year old Halite crystals: We present a new and innovative way of determining the oxygen level of Earth's past atmosphere by directly measuring inclusion gases [...]

Bäume als Archivare der Vergangenheit 

Geschichte der Geologie [22:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (266 visits) info
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"De róba véyese de prúmes témpesay ó aldíe vó kunté bayédes!Von alten Dingenund von alte Zeitenhabe ich gehörtund will ich nun erzählen."Spruch der ladinischen Cantastóries (Erzähler)Mittels [...]

Is Your Local Weather Reporter Afraid to Mention The Climate Elephant? 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [08:45:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
Jason Samenow over at Capital Weather Gang (Washington Post) has a great piece today, and it has led to a wide discussion among broadcast meteorologists. I’ve written before about this subject, and while [...]

Apresentações no Encontro de Paleontologia de Vertebrados em Haarlem 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [13:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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O EAVP (European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists) é uma das maiores associações para paleontólogos de vertebrados da Europa e uma das mais importantes do mundo. O congresso do EAVP é um evento [...]

Saturn's Unique Hexagon 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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Announcement: No new articles until at least 29th July 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:32:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
Due to the sudden passing of my step father on 11th of July there are not going to be any new updates until at least 29th July, possibly not until 16th of August. I just don’t know yet. … Continue [...]

Revisión de restos de eosauropterigios en el XIV Meeting de la EAVP 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
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Poco a poco vamos finalizando ya con los trabajos que presentaron varios miembros del Grupo de Biología Evolutiva de la UNED en el XIV Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists [...]

EPA's Science Advisory Board Reviews Draft Assessment on Hydraulic Fracturing 

Energy Policy Blog [17:29:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
In June 2015, EPA released a draft assessment of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing (HF) for oil and gas on drinking water resources. This draft assessment was then presented to EPA’s Science [...]

The Big Earthquake Hype Machine 

Ontario-geofish [13:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
Reference This is just the latest on the media's series 'Cities that Wait to Die'.  There are countless cities that wait to die with the rare 1 in 500 per year earthquake or tsunami.  They are hyped by [...]

Cottage Report 

Ontario-geofish [01:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
I stayed up alone Monday and Tuesday.  Monday was paradise for me, since my fish-mad neighbour gave me some stuff that the fish go mad for.  Can you imagine bubblegum coloured rubber worms?  Caught enough [...]

Pokemon Go Dead Already 

Ontario-geofish [12:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
According to my son.  It didn't take long for the super-fanatics to hack or buy huge powers.  It's a simple matter of arms escalation.  I remember when the kids went through the 'super soaker' phase.  They [...]
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