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Friday, 27 January 2017
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
earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [20:22:59]
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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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Mannheim. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG plant, ihre Aktie (WKN A0XYG7) und die im vergangenen Jahr emittierte Anleihe (WKN A2AA05) im
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Die Tiefsee ist ein gewaltiger, scheinbar lebensfeindlicher Ort,
durchbrochen nur von vereinzelten Oasen des Lebens. Solche Oasen
entstehen beispielsweise, wenn Holzstämme auf den Meeresboden [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mannheim. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG plant, ihre Aktie (WKN A0XYG7) und die im vergangenen Jahr emittierte Anleihe (WKN A2AA05) im
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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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