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Saturday, 12 November 2016

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Toronto housing market crashes and dies

Ontario-geofish [22:23:00]

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I like to make extrapolations from a single point. A relative's house in Unionville was expected to have riots in the street, and so many offers you couldn't stuff them in. But nothing. This is the definitive sign that Toronto is crashing. When the big wall goes up we'll all freeze in the dark. That's what the foreign Chinese are thinking, and now staying away, putting their money into

The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Honors "Carving Grand Canyon" with the Geosciences in the Media Award

Earthly Musings [14:08:00]

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Tonight, at the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) annual banquet at the Warwick Hotel in downtown Denver, "Carving Grand Canyon" will be honored with their Geosciences in the Media Award. I received their most welcomed letter on August 30, informing me of the award. Of course, I was thrilled to receive the news."Carving Grand Canyon" was first published in April, 2005 and is now in its 2nd edition (2012). As of September 30, 2016, there have been 38,677 copies sold (two [...]

Hearts are Trump

Ontario-geofish [12:38:00]

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From Jane Austen, this is my collection for all things trumpy. I am hiding from the search engines, and I never want to be a 'featured collection' again. Such a nightmare trying to police a collection with [...]

The role of the sedimentologists.

JOIDES Resolution blogs [06:05:58]

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JOIDES Resolution drills under the ocean into the seafloor to bring up long cylinders of material called core. Sedimentologists describe this [...]

Oklahoma starts to go all red

Ontario-geofish [00:38:00]

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OK earthquakes are picking up again, just when I thought they would hibernate for the winter. I suspect that everybody is going nuts with fracking, with you-know-who in the captain's chair. Plus we've [...]

Offshore fishing, its benefits, and the use of kayaks

Bob Jamieson dot Net [08:47:14]

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Offshore fishing is an advanced experience for any fisherman or angler who has not had the experience. Many anglers usually stick to on shore fishing and they are content with the experience. Despite on shore [...]

Magnitude 3,5 earthquake in Bárðarbunga volcano

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:39:09]

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Today (11-November-2016) a magnitude 3,5 earthquake took place in Bárðarbunga volcano. This earthquake, like so many before it, is due to inflation of the volcano that started in September-2015. This is [...]

Cushing OK Earthquake

Seismos [00:12:00]

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On 7 Nov 2016 there was a magnitude 5.0 earthquake (EQ) at 5 km depth about 2 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma. The earthquake was felt by many in my town of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Although I did not feel the EQ [...]