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Friday, 27 January 2017

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Mapping Texas: The Beginning 

BEYONDbones [23:46:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (717 visits) info
    The image above is the so-called “Waldseemuller Map“, one of the oldest maps on display in our new special exhibit: Mapping Texas: From Frontier to Lone Star State. Titled Tabula Terre Nove, the map was produced in 1513 to be included in a new edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographic , a book that was originally written

A ‘recipe’ for Earth’s accretion, without water 

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [20:22:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (204 visits) info
The Earth continues to collect meteorites, the vast majority of which are about as old as our planet; indeed many are slightly older. So it has long been thought that Earth originally formed by gravitational [...]

Wasser gelangte früher auf die Erde / "Nature": Studienergebnisse widersprechen "Kometen-Hypothese" 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [17:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (701 visits) info
     Gelangte das Wasser bereits früh während der Erdentwicklung auf die Erde oder erst später durch Einschläge von Kometen? Beide Hypothesen werden diskutiert. Planetologen der WWU haben nun durch [...]

Global flood risk could increase five-fold with a 4-degree C temperature rise 

Geospace [16:54:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
A new report looks at flood risk and economic damages under different global warming scenarios with temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius, 2 degrees Celsius and 4 degrees Celsius. It concludes that, if [...]

January GeoRoundup: the best of the Earth sciences from across the web 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:51:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (26 visits) info
The start of the new year sees the launch of a new series here on GeoLog. Drawing inspiration from popular stories on our social media channels, as well as unique and quirky research news, this monthly column [...]

(Geo)science matters: Landslide monitoring in California 

Magma Cum Laude [13:00:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
Right now it's incredibly important for scientists to hammer home why science is essential, important and needs to be practiced rigorously, transparently and without censorship. It's clear that we can no [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Wechsel in das neue KMU-Segment geplant 

Rohstoff Blog [12:17:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (20 visits) info
Mannheim. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG plant, ihre Aktie (WKN A0XYG7) und die im vergangenen Jahr emittierte Anleihe (WKN A2AA05) im

Cromwell Gorge: earthquake-induced groundwater changes in very deep-seated landslides 

The Landslide Blog [10:12:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
In new paper, O'Brien et al. (2016) report that regional earthquakes generate substantial changes in the groundwater level in landslides in Cromwell Gorge, New

Back to Bangladesh to date earthquakes and more 

State of the Planet [07:06:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
I'm back in Bangladesh with a small team after a year and a half away. One different is a police escort as a result of the attacks last year. We start by successfully sampling river sediments to correct the [...]

317 years since the last rupture of the Cascadia megathrust 

Highly Allochthonous [05:38:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
At around 9pm on the 26th January 1700, the Cascadia subduction zone - a shallowly dipping thrust fault that runs more than 1000 km north from Cape Mendocino in Northern California to the vicinity of Vancouver [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Ammonite septa from the Upper Cretaceous of South Dakota 

Wooster Geologists [05:01:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (54 visits) info
This week we have an ammonite from the Pierre Shale (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern South Dakota. It was collected on a wonderful field expedition in June 2008 with my friend Paul [...]

Video Diary #6: Science, Singing, and Scottish Food 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [18:26:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (698 visits) info
In my latest video diary, check out how we've been surviving notorious Week 6 of our expedition by keeping things festive, even amidst our last round of [...]

Auf dem Tiefsee-Holzweg: Ein versunkener Baumstamm als vielfältiger und dynamischer Lebensraum 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [17:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
     Die Tiefsee ist ein gewaltiger, scheinbar lebensfeindlicher Ort, durchbrochen nur von vereinzelten Oasen des Lebens. Solche Oasen entstehen beispielsweise, wenn Holzstämme auf den Meeresboden [...]

Old Faithful WebCam 

Geology in the West Country [16:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
Live Video of Old Faithful While writing up my trip to the North West USA with WEGA last summer, I came across this web page which shows what Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is doing now. The [...]

Friday fold: the Bradshaw Layered Amphibolite 

Mountain Beltway [13:41:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
The Friday fold can be found along the Fall Zone, where crystalline metaigneous rocks of the Piedmont meet the gently sloping strata of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Contemplate their high metamorphic grade and [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Wechsel in das neue KMU-Segment geplant 

Rohstoff Blog [12:17:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
Mannheim. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG plant, ihre Aktie (WKN A0XYG7) und die im vergangenen Jahr emittierte Anleihe (WKN A2AA05) im

New Group paper: When is a komatiite not a komatiite? 

Earth & Solar System [10:31:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (31 visits) info
This post has been written by group member Dr Brian O’Driscoll about a new research paper published by the Journal of the Geological Society (London) —————————————– Komatiites [...]

Unas cuantas ilustraciones dinosaurianas... (IV) 

Koprolitos [09:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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"Coal Feather" por Will Varner Volvemos con otra tanda de ilustraciones, aunque esta vez abrimos con una que no tiene nada de dinosauriana, ya que es un mamut de Will Varner (al que hemos visto últimamente [...]

Federal GIS Data in Jeopardy 

Terra Central [05:40:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info
How safe is Federal GIS data? Thursday, I ran across this article on a Reddit GIS forum and felt troubled by it. What is the motivation behind this legislation, House Bill HR482 and Senate Bill S103? From [...]

Liveblogging the Deluge: The Post Mortem...Storms That Made a Difference 

Geotripper [05:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (45 visits) info
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Don Pedro Reservoir on January 5 before the storms, elevation about 786 feet (76% of capacity). The atmospheric river storms of January have finally subsided, and we are looking at kind of a new landscape [...]
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