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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Monday, 22 August 2016
The Chilik-Chon Kemin Fault Zone is a major left-lateral strike-slip fault zone in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, just a few tens of kilometres east of Almaty and north of Lake Issyk Kul. It has seen one of the largest continental earthquakes ever recorded in 1889, with an estimated magnitude of ~M8.3. In July and August I had the chance to visit this fault zone for two weeks together with Angela Landgraf from Potsdam, thanks to a travel grant from COMET
Downtown Oakland sits on an unusual bit of geology — a large dune field mapped as the Merritt Sand. San Francisco is famous for its sand dunes, of course, and Points Reyes and Año Nuevo have some too, but the dune fields of Oakland and Alameda are the only ones within the bay. Here they
JSR Paper Clips in their "A Look Back" series highlights an influential paper by J.A.D. Dickson on the use of staining of carbonate rocks to differentiate in a thin section the different mineral [...]
Im südlichen Golf von Mexiko erkundet Forscherteam unwirtliche Umgebung am Meeresboden
Facettenreich und vielfältig sind die Lebensräume, die sich um
natürliche Öl-Austrittsstellen am [...]
At long last jules and I have managed to submit the written version of a talk that I have given (bits of) no fewer than four times over the last few years (at NCAR, UKMO/HC, Schloss Ringberg and EGU). It had [...]
Kevser Aktas, the number theorist whose projects aim to inspire youth and ignite a facination for mathematics. We look forward to seeing her at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum. What led you to do the … [...]
Check out our New Exhibit! Gems of the Sea: The Guido T. Poppe Collection World class. One of a kind. Never before seen. Made by mollusks. The Philippines consists of over 7,500 islands in Southeast [...]
Übermorgen ist es wieder soweit: dann beginnt die vierte Ausgabe unserer deutsch-italienischen Sommerschule zur Astrophysik. Dieses Jahr geht es nach Florenz bzw. ans Observatorium in Arcetri. Dabei sein [...]
These next two, giant brachiopod shells are Linoproductus sp. from the early Permian aged (Asselian stage to Sakmarian stage of the ICS, Wolfcampian stage in US stratigraphy) sediments of Callahan County, [...]
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This year’s imaggeo photo contest saw humdreds of great entries. Among the winning images was a stunning night-sky panorama by Vytas Huth. In today’s post, Vytas describes how he captured the image [...]
Just posting a few images from my impending talk at SVPCA this Thursday. I’ve written about the recurrent laryngeal nerve before, in Wedel (2012) and in this post. It’s present in all tetrapods, [...]
Klimaforscher der Universität Hohenheim entwickeln ein
Computermodell, das präzisere regionale Klimaprojektionen ermöglichen
soll. Ein Werkstattbericht.
Das Klima beeinflusst [...]
Lee Allison, State Geologist and Director of the Arizona Geological Survey, passed away Tuesday, August 16th, at noon after suffering a critical head injury from a fall at his home on Saturday. Dr. Allison was [...]
The ELI 'Earth on Earth' uses a globe in the sunshine to show how day/night and the seasons work.
A model globe is fixed in the same position, relative to the Sun, as the real Earth, allowing pupils to [...]
Hey, everyone! Raise your hands if you think a geology course should be REQUIRED of all students! [crickets]. Yeah, I thought so.
Geology classes occupy a somewhat uncomfortable zone within the standard [...]
Let’s now profile the next unconformity in the sequence of pulses of erosion and deposition recorded in the North-West Highlands of Scotland. For a reminder, here’s a cartoon cross-section through [...]
الجيوكمبيوتر الجيوكمبيوتر كما اسميته او الحوسبة الجيولوجية وهي استخدام الكمبيوتر في مجال الجيولوجيا وتطويعه [...]
Box Rock Circus is now a "Gym Level 3" for Pokemon Go!!!!Elizabeth Devon has sent me an email telling me (and you) that Box Rock Circus is now a "Gym level 3" in the mobile game Pokemon Go. No doubt this is [...]
eL kOProFagO, que no descansa ni cuando está de vacaciones, me ha hecho llegar esta web para solaz y disfrute de los amantes del deporte y los dinosaurios a partes iguales, con ilustraciones del artista de [...]
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