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Monday, 12 December 2016
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A New Exposed Trackway on the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon
A hunt for silica-carbonate
The geologic map of the northern East Bay that I rely on has a few rock units that are very small and hard to notice. One of them is the ultra-purple unit designated “silica-carbonate rock.” The map shows [...]Fossils as strain markers: the boudinaged belemnites of the Swiss Alps
Don’t you hate it when plate tectonics ruins a perfectly good fossil? This is a sketch of a belemnite from the Swiss Alps: The thing has been broken into segments, with calcite filling the gaps between the [...]William Stout, el buen hombre lagarto
Environment, Jobs, and President-Elect Trump
While many people around the world are concerned about President-elect Trump's threat to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, I am far more concerned about the possible signal to American corporations and [...]End of social-media war with Amazon
I call an end to my tempest in a teacup. Ammie has proven itself to be a true Putinista, immune to any outside influence. I have a friend who programs for them in Seattle, probably bots, so I love them [...]International Symposium on eolian Dynamics, Paleosols and environmental Change in Drylands
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It’s that time of year again. Fall AGU is the biggest gathering of geophysical scientists in the world (~24,000 attendees) and while it includes planetary science, seismology and magnetophysics, it is [...]FME and Talend: ETL tools for your spatial data
Spatial data has some formats most of you know (shapefile, geoJSON, TiFF,…). But there is always a wide variety not only in available and used file formats but also in structure of data and formats of the [...]Ice Ages - a thing of the past?!
Putinistas in Ontario
The Kirkian Hacking of Amazon
First Hypothesis - Holding. That Ammie does not employ anybody anymore after the big accusations of Putinism for management (The New Nasti-ism). Especially in Canada, where they would have to be nice, and [...]Where is Anne at AGU?
I’ve abandoned my family for the week and flown to San Francisco to join ~26,000 geoscientists at this year’s American Geophysical Union meeting. It’s a big, spectacular, and exciting meeting, and I [...]E&G - Quaternary Science Journal - Special Issue
Liebe DEUQUA-Mitglieder und Teilnehmer/innen der diesjährigen DEUQUA-Tagung in Dresden, wie angekündigt wird es in unserer Zeitschrift "E&G - Quaternary Science Journal" ein special issue [...]Strong earthquake swarm in Bárðarbunga volcano
During the night of 12-December-2016 a earthquake swarm took place in Bárðarbunga volcano. This earthquake activity happens because the volcano is inflating currently after period of deflation during the [...]AGU 16: live stream of the first landslide session on Wednesday
The first landslide session at the AGU 16 meeting in San Francisco will be streamed live on Wednesday morning. You can register forTop 5 Ways to Make Spirits Bright at HMNS
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The streets are aglow with beautiful lights, and everyone seems to be just a little bit more jolly! It can also be a stressful time. The kids have only been on break [...]Spy Satellites Reveal the Himalayas’ Changing Glaciers – in 3D
Declassified spy satellite images are beginning to provide the first consistent look at how glaciers across the Himalayas are changing and what future water supplies might look like for millions ofImaggeo on Mondays: “Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!”
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