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Friday, 06 January 2017

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Tale as Old as Time--Secrets of the Mud Volcanoes 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [19:27:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (680 visits) info
Hidden within the countless layers of rock, sediment, and fossilized creatures beneath the Earth’s surface are fascinating stories of the history of our planet—stories of how you and I came to exist.  read more

Geological Society Fellows on New Year Honours list 

Geological Society of London blog [18:28:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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Many congratulations to the Geological Society Fellows included in the New Year’s Honours list, which was announced last week! Professor Jane Francis FGS, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, has received a DCMG for her services to UK polar science and diplomacy from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As well as her research, Professor Francis has been … Continue reading →

Apa itu SHALE GAS ? 

Dogeng Geology [12:34:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
Anjloknya harga minya beberapa tahun yang lalu diduga disebabkan karena banjirnya migas dari Shale Gas dan Shale Oil yang diproduksi oleh Amerika Serikat. Indonesia tentunya banyak migasnya, juga banyak shale [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Upper Ordovician brachiopods and bryozoans from paleontology class collections 

Wooster Geologists [05:01:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
Last semester the Invertebrate Paleontology class at Wooster had its annual field trip into the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio. We had a great, if a bit muddy, time collecting fossils for each student’s [...]

SHELTER POINT, VANCOUVER ISLAND 

ARCHEA [22:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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Shelter Point on northern Vancouver Island is a lovely beach site and part of the Oyster Bay Formation, located just off the Island Highway, about 10km south of downtown Campbell River.  At the northern [...]

Collapsing Arctic coastlines 

The Landslide Blog [08:44:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
In a paper just published in Nature Climate Change, Michael Fritz and colleagues have highlighted the environmental impacts of collapsing Arctic

Geosciences Column: Do coastlines have memories? 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:00:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (53 visits) info
Did you know that the shape of coastlines is determined by the angle at which waves crash against the shoreline. It has long been thought that fluctuations in the wave incidence angle are rapidly felt by [...]

Courses by Nick Chidlaw 

Geology in the West Country [13:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (41 visits) info
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March 2017 – Two one-day courses – Scotland and Wales Nick Chidlaw is offering two 1-day courses in March, using a format that has pleasingly attracted many attendees on previous occasions. These courses [...]

Paper on Underwater Noise Reduction of Marine Pile Driving 

GeoPrac.net [01:19:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (34 visits) info
Impact pile driving of steel piles in aquatic environments produces extremely high underwater sound levels. To address this problem, a double-walled pile has been developed to decrease the total noise [...]

Friday fold: helicopter and anticline in the Yukon 

Mountain Beltway [13:08:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (26 visits) info
The Friday fold is airborne over the Yukon Territory's border with the Northwest Territories, high up in Canada's Mackenzie Mountains. Helicopter for

Sabancaya: Erhöhung der Alarmstufe 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [09:40:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (22 visits) info
Am Vulkan Sabancaya wurde der Alarmstatus

Bruce Black Hole studies alternative locations 

Ontario-geofish [13:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (21 visits) info
Reference DEEP GEOLOGIC REPOSITORY I was fascinated how this would turn out, since they never studied any alternative locations.  It was always 'jam the round peg into the square hole of Bruce'.  Well, [...]

Gèotechnique Rankine-lecture papers 

GeoPrac.net [01:18:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (19 visits) info
The Rankine lecture is one of the most prestigious invited lectures in all of geotechnical engineering. The Institute of Civil Engineers has a list of all of the Rankine lecturers and links to most of their [...]

New Member Benefit – The GOLD Course 

GeoPrac.net [01:20:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (18 visits) info
The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) has announced a new course offering for its members, Geoprofessional Operational Leadership Development (GOLD) Course. This course is targeted at new and [...]

Linux - IOT still pretty useless 

Ontario-geofish [16:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
I got a Google Home for Christmas.  It's pretty useless, except for playing music.  You say 'OK Google' and all your phones react.  The only useful thing was interacting with Philips Hue and turning off the [...]

New Sites, New Rocks, New Challenges 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [04:13:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
It's been a busy number of days here on the JR since my last post! read more

New Leadership at Arizona Geological Survey 

Arizona Geology [17:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
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WANNERIA DUNNAE, EAGER FORMATION 

ARCHEA [07:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (55 visits) info
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CRETACEOUS STEW: INOCERAMUS CLAMS 

ARCHEA [19:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info
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These oyster-like clams were common through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The presence of certain fossil Inoceramus species allows geologists to date specific formations.The entire group went extinct [...]

Apa itu SHALE GAS ? 

Dogeng Geology [05:34:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (35 visits) info
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Anjloknya harga minya beberapa tahun yang lalu diduga disebabkan karena banjirnya migas dari Shale Gas dan Shale Oil yang diproduksi oleh Amerika Serikat. Indonesia tentunya banyak migasnya, juga banyak shale [...]

Worried About Being Ready for the Big Storm? Let's Have a Practice Flood! The Tuolumne River Today 

Geotripper [06:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (30 visits) info
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January 2016, one year ago Okay, this is a bit odd. There is a lot of news about the coming atmospheric storm that will strike California this weekend, with the possibility of some truly epic (in the bad way) [...]

How Climate Change Affects New York’s Plants and Animals 

State of the Planet [17:38:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (23 visits) info
Climate change is already affecting New York, and these changes will have profound effects on its ecosystems, plants and animals. What are the implications of these projected

Bill Riding A T-Rex 

Koprolitos [14:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (21 visits) info
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A Bill Murray lo llevas viendo toda la vida en la gran pantalla. Desde sus comienzos en Saturday Night Live a finales de los 70, pasando por sus papeles como el Dr. Venkman en "Los Cazafantasmas" (1984), o [...]

Columbia Alumni Making Sense of Sustainable Investing 

State of the Planet [17:17:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (19 visits) info
While more institutional investors are factoring sustainability in their investment decisions, there is little agreement about what sustainability means, or how to measure it. Interviews with three sustainable [...]

Next Week Saturday 7th to Sunday 15th January 2017 

Geology in the West Country [13:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (19 visits) info
NEXT WEEKS EVENTS 7th January to 15th January 2017 The following is an extract from Bristol Geology Calendar More details can be found in the Calendar and on the web sites of the relevant Society or [...]

Toronto housing crash confirmed 

Ontario-geofish [19:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (18 visits) info
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There it is, in all its glory.  We'll reiterate:  In November, the hot money was pouring in for the first 2 weeks.  Everybody in Unionville had a ridiculous bidding war.  Switch to Trumps winning, and no [...]
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