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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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
[...]
Hans Scupin, 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik der Nordsudetischen Kreide. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz (Naturforschende Gesellschaft) Görlitz 32 (1):
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Cotta, 1861, S. 191. gleiche Abbildung in Gutbier, 1858 - () - Ort: Quadersandstein in Königstein (Sächsische
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hans Scupin, 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik der Nordsudetischen Kreide. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz (Naturforschende Gesellschaft) Görlitz 32 (1):
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cotta, 1861, S. 191. gleiche Abbildung in Gutbier, 1858 - () - Ort: Quadersandstein in Königstein (Sächsische
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 [...]