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Thursday, 26 January 2017

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MIDDLE TRIASSIC-ANISIAN AMMONOID 

ARCHEA [20:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (55 visits) info
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A specimen of Grambergia sp., a Middle Triassic-Ansian ammonoid from the Toad Formation of northeastern British

What should we do now Beall’s List has gone? 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [19:44:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (685 visits) info
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: […]

EOCENE LOVE BUG 

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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 [...]

Lyell and Darwin 

Seismos [18:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (272 visits) info
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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 [...]

What are....Meteorites, Meteoroids, Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [18:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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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 [...]

What Does Trump Mean for Geotechnical Engineers and Constructors? 

GeoPrac.net [07:28:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (727 visits) info
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 [...]

Micropile & Anchored Earth Retention Safety Video 

GeoPrac.net [07:06:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
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 [...]

Our Celestial End!-Himmlisches Ende! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [06:28:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (57 visits) info

Zion National Park - Land of Landslides 

Earthly Musings [03:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
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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 [...]

fun stuff to drill through (4) 

Accidental Remediation [00:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
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 [...]

Katla volcano has magnitude 4,3 earthquake 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [18:24:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (37 visits) info
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 [...]

Dore Holm 

Mountain Beltway [18:19:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
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

Prehistoric Trump Rally (Dustinteractive) 

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"¡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 and Wilson Announces Promotions for 2017 

GeoPrac.net [07:15:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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, [...]

All The Light We Cannot See 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:38:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
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 [...]

Sea-surface temperatures during the last interglaciation. 

Letters from Gondwana [04:40:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
  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 [...]

Earthquake swarm under Grímsey island (Tjörnes Fracture Zone) 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [02:43:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (45 visits) info
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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