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Thursday, 02 March 2017

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Origin of the Moon--redux! 

Geology in Motion [23:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (690 visits) info
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Ever since Harold Urey proposed his theory for the origin of the Moon in 1952, it's origin has been the topic of debate, a debate that has not yet been settled.  One of the goals of the manned space program to the Moon was to get samples that would solve this debate but, because the Moon has undergone differentiation and a complicated geological history, we know a lot about the evolution of the Moon, but not about its origin.  In Nature Geoscience (v. 10, pp. 89-94, 2017) Rufu, Aharonson and [...]

Mina de baritina de la Bòfia de Coll de Pal -i una mica de nostàlgia crítica- (Berguedà) 

Bloc de camp [22:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (218 visits) info
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Ja havia estat a aquesta mina de baritina de Coll de Pal feia uns trenta anys. Ho veus i tens un flaix. La vida et passa per davant: zooooooom! I el collons a terra. En acabat us explicaré una batalleta de quan era nano. Ara anem al tema.    La mina de baritina de la Bòfia de Coll de Pal s'obrí l'any 1906 i s'explotà intermitentment fins el 1978. S'hi feren feines en galeria i a cel obert,

Slamming El Ninos Melt the Arctic 

Ontario-geofish [22:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (629 visits) info
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The El Nino disrupts existing ocean currents and shifts a lot of heat to the Arctic.  That heat is all dumped into space, but on the way it melts the Arctic ice. Here we have the Arctic ice volume the [...]

Tesis doctoral sobre dinosaurios del fin del Cretácico 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [21:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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Victor Fondevila, un buen amigo de Aragosaurus, va a defender su tesis doctoral en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Os dejamos un resumen de su tesis y el cartel anunicador del actor. Suerte y al toro, [...]

Come nuotava Spinosaurus? 

Theropoda [20:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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Postura semi-eretta bipede per Spinosaurus, modificato da Ibrahim et al. (2014). Non mi pare sia così assurdo... In un recente post, ho discusso l'ipotesi quadrupede proposta da Ibrahim et al. (2014) su [...]

Lake Oroville Spillway March 1, 2017 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [17:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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Scupin, 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik der Nordsudetischen Kreide 

kreidefossilien.de [17:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (32 visits) info
Hans Scupin, 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik der Nordsudetischen Kreide. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz (Naturforschende Gesellschaft) Görlitz 32 (1):

Google’s Field Trip Days At HMNS 

BEYONDbones [17:05:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
By Elizabeth Galante, Content Manager and Data Analyst, Youth Education Sales   Thanks to a sponsorship from Google, the Houston Museum of Natural Science was able to close the Museum to the public and invite [...]

Dr. Rob Thieler delivers the 36th annual Richard G. Osgood, Jr., Memorial Lecture at Wooster 

Wooster Geologists [16:21:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
One of the pleasures of being in the Geology Department at The College of Wooster is that we have the annual Richard G. Osgood, Jr., Memorial Lecture series. These presentations, given in honor of the late [...]

A virtual field trip to the Grind of the Navir 

Mountain Beltway [15:39:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
On the northwestern coast of the Northmavine Peninsula of Shetland, there is an unusual coastal landform: a gate-like entrance to an elevated amphitheater, like something out of Tolkien, and a storm beach of [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Almonty vereinbart weiteren Festpreisvertrag für Wolframkonzentrat 

Rohstoff Blog [14:26:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (30 visits) info
Starker Anstieg der Ressource in Panasqueira/Quartalsergebnisse veröffentlicht Mannheim/Toronto. Almonty Industries hat einen Festpreisvertrag für den Großteil seiner Produktion in der

EGU 2017 General Assembly programme is now online! 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:20:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
The EGU General Assembly 2017 programme is available here. Take a look and – if you haven’t already – register for the conference by 16 March to make the early registration rates! Last year, we updated [...]

Worlds Oldest Fossils 

Geology in the West Country [12:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
How the Worlds Oldest Fossils were Discovered (you could add "perhaps" and "possibly" to the above as the mood takes you!) HERE is a report on how the fossils were found and examined. And we have some [...]

Los bichos del pasado de Sarah Goodreau 

Koprolitos [10:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
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Sarah Goodreau es una ilustradora de Massachusetts (Estados Unidos) aunque actualmente vive en Londres (Gran Bretaña). Al finalizar sus estudios en Bellas Artes en el Savannah College of Art and Design, [...]

Asterias schulzii Cotta und Reich 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [08:51:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (41 visits) info
Cotta, 1861, S. 191. gleiche Abbildung in Gutbier, 1858 - () - Ort: Quadersandstein in Königstein (Sächsische

bad organization comments 

Accidental Remediation [01:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
This recent post on technically bad comments reminded me about organizationally bad comments. On numerous occasions, and with different reviewers, I have received a comment along the lines of "but what [...]

An Exciting Preview of Our First Online Annual Gala Auction! 

BEYONDbones [22:00:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
The Houston Museum of Natural Science will be serving as mission control on Saturday, March 4th for an out-of-this-world Gala: The Big Bang Ball. Make a big impact by bidding in our first-ever online Gala [...]

Trump’s Unifying Opportunity: Food Security 

State of the Planet [20:44:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
A sound strategy to secure the nation’s food supply and reduce its vulnerability within and beyond our borders will be a major step towards making America and the world more resilient in the face of [...]

Study improves forecasts of summer Arctic sea ice 

AGU Meetings [19:00:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
Each year, as sea ice starts to melt in the spring following its maximum wintertime extent, scientists still struggle to estimate exactly how much ice they expect will disappear through the melt season. Now, a [...]

Scupin, 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik der Nordsudetischen Kreide 

kreidefossilien.de [17:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
Hans Scupin, 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik der Nordsudetischen Kreide. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz (Naturforschende Gesellschaft) Görlitz 32 (1):

Peering into Volcanoes: a Talk with Einat Lev 

State of the Planet [17:14:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
What do the scientists and researchers around the Earth Institute do? In this second in a series, Einat Lev from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory talks about her work on volcanoes what she’d like people [...]

Historic earthquakes discovered along San Andreas Fault 

AGU Meetings [16:28:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
A new U.S. Geological Survey study offers a view into the past behavior of large earthquakes along the southern San Andreas Fault. In the study, USGS geologist Kate Scharer and her team excavated trenches [...]

Rising to a second El Nino 

Ontario-geofish [15:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (45 visits) info
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Yeah, to another hot summer!  Boo, to more warmist gloating.  As I've said before, we are not getting any normalization in the big ocean currents.  The Pacific is looking at another backwash event. Sooner [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff: Almonty vereinbart weiteren Festpreisvertrag für Wolframkonzentrat 

Rohstoff Blog [14:26:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
Starker Anstieg der Ressource in Panasqueira/Quartalsergebnisse veröffentlicht Mannheim/Toronto. Almonty Industries hat einen Festpreisvertrag für den Großteil seiner Produktion in der

La Fluorescenza Laser rivela la forma del corpo in Anchiornis 

Theropoda [13:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
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Recenti sviluppi delle tecniche di indagine non-invasiva stanno rivoluzionando la paleontologia. Queste tecnologie permettono di vedere ciò che l'occhio non può vedere, ma possono anche analizzare un fossile [...]

Science on board - Chit-chat with a petrologist/ Quattro chiacchiere con un petrologo 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [12:52:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info
In this post we are going to meet Anders McCarthy one of the petrologist on board the JOIDES Resolution in Expedition 367. Here the interview he released [...]

Introduction to Geology - OUGS 

Geology in the West Country [12:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
OUGS Running "Introduction to Geology" Field Trip OUGS SW branch have an ‘Introduction to Geology' field trip running at Goodrington, Paignton, on Sunday 12th March. The focus of the day will be on [...]

Asterias schulzii Cotta und Reich 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [08:51:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
Cotta, 1861, S. 191. gleiche Abbildung in Gutbier, 1858 - () - Ort: Quadersandstein in Königstein (Sächsische

The true meaning of numbers 

Real Climate [08:01:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
Gavin has already discussed John Christy’s misleading graph earlier in 2016, however, since the end of 2016, there has been a surge in interest in this graph in Norway amongst people who try to diminish the [...]
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