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Thursday, 26 January 2017
A specimen of Grambergia sp., a Middle Triassic-Ansian ammonoid from the Toad Formation of northeastern British
It’s now been widely discussed that Jeffrey Beall’s list of predatory and questionable open-access publishers — Beall’s List for short — has suddenly and abruptly gone away. No-one really knows why, but there are rumblings that he has been hit with a legal threat that he doesn’t want to defend. To get this out of the way: […]
The Love Boat, soon you'll be sailing away... Well, perhaps you will but that ship has sailed for this wee fellow.This is a Fossil Love Bug, one of the most satisfying fossils to collect in the Eocene [...]
As some Seismos readers know, a passion of mine is collecting rare books. I have been at it since the late 1970s and now have about 120 titles that one could term rare.The photo above is a very nice part of [...]
I occasionally do a set of blogs called "What are...". Here is the next one in the series.
I was reading a book with my daughter, book 8 of the Magic Tree House series - Midnight on the Moon (her current [...]
The U.S. has entered into the Trump era, so what does that mean for those in our profession? This blog post is an apolitical look at the economic outlook for infrastructure spending as it pertains to [...]
The ADSC/IAFD has produced a safety video on Micropile & Anchored Earth Retention. It's sure to be a great training video for contractors, but it is also a great resource for engineers and inspectors who [...]
Rockfall from the January 13, 2017 event on Zion National Park's Scenic Road
Earthly- Musings is back from vacation and I will be posting photos and stories from a fantastic trip to the Yucatan, Belize and [...]
This post a while back on water handling reminded me of another geologic feature that's a pain to drill through: faults. (see my last post on this topic and some links to older posts here).
Now, I haven't [...]
Today (26.01.2017) at 15:14 UTC a magnitude 4,3 earthquake took place in Katla volcano. This earthquake was felt in Vík í Mýrdal (village) and nearby area. A second earthquake with the magnitude of 3,0 took [...]
The scenic arch of Dore Holm ("Door Island") in Shetland shows off the most efficient way of breaking a slab of rock. The island's shape is a reflection of the parsimonious nature of natural
"¡Los asteroides no son un problema! ¡Debemos concentrarnos en cosas importantes como construir más muros para mantener a esos malditos cuellilargos a raya!"Dustin Rogers es un ilustrador de Columbus [...]
Shannon & Wilson, an employee-owned consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington and with 12 offices across North America, recently announced a series of promotions for 2017. The promotions, [...]
One image in 16 different wavelengths of light from NOAA’s new weather satellite GOES-16 (GOES-R at launch). The upper left is the blue visible light wavelength. Next is Red. Next is near IR, not visible to [...]
A proverb of Confucius states “Study the past if you would divine the future.” Human activity ensures that our climate will become warmer in the next century and remain warm for many millennia to [...]
Yesterday (25.01.2016) there was an earthquake activity directly under Grímsey island (Wikipedia information). Earthquake swarms directly under Grímsey islands are uncommon, but they do happen from time to [...]
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