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Thursday, 23 March 2017

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‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On’ in the world of dinosaurs 

Geological Society of London blog [18:23:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (663 visits) info
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A guest post from the Sedgwick Museum’s Douglas Palmer Whilst Jerry Lee Lewis was certainly not thinking of dinosaurs when he recorded his famous 1957 hit song, he was referring to hips. And, as all dinophiles know, dinosaurs can be divided into two fundamentally distinct groups based on the structure of their hips. Ever since … Continue reading →

Sea Ice and China Smog 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:53:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info
Even Antarctica saw record low ice area during their summer (boreal winter), but there’s new research that seems to show a link between the Arctic ice loss and increased air pollution in China. With dark, heat-absorbing water now replacing what was once bright and very reflective ice, the energy balance of the atmosphere has to change, and that change translates to changing weather patterns. There is quite a bit of research into this now,

Dinosaurs revisited - again 

Geology in the West Country [12:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
Will the Dinosaur Family Tree be Rewritten? Mike Benton writes HERE that recent research in cladistics might necessitate a reappraisal of dinosaur evolution. I don't pretend to understand it but it is [...]

Slight increase in earthquake activity in Grímsvötn (Grímsfjall) volcano 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:43:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
Over the past few months there has been a slight increase in earthquake activity in Grímsvötn (Grímsfjall) volcano. This increase in activity strongly suggests that Grímsvötn are now in later stages of [...]

Black Hills Montane Grassland Infographic 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [19:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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This picture is worth 620 words! (Click on this map and those below to view details.) When our Black Hills Montane Grasslands paper appeared in the December 2016 issue of The Prairie Naturalist, I was [...]

Linux - fun with the Raspberry Pi Zero W - setup 

Ontario-geofish [11:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
You need to buy a starter kit from Canatech, or whatever.  The kit has the good charger, a micro to regular usb converter, and a micro to regular hdmi adapter.  They also include a micro sd card with the [...]

Behind the Science - Adam's chronicle: why sometimes we have low sediments recovery 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [14:00:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
Looking at the white board in the core laboratory that shows the percentage of core recovery, we often see low numbers. Expedition Project Manager Adam Klaus is here to explain why sometimes the core liners [...]

Sauropodomorph Size 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [13:41:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
   Sauropodomorph size is difficult to estimate given their usually fragmentary state of preservation. Sauropods are often preserved without their tails, so the margin of error in overall length estimates [...]

Warm Gjulf Stream may portend energetic spring-time storms in the midwest 

Geology in Motion [00:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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From Washington Post Capital Weather Gang on 3/22/17. Weather in the Midwest is a fight between the receding Arctic cold air and the encrouching warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. The battle scars of this [...]

A Point With Multiple Dimensions 

Fossils and Other Living Things [20:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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I manage to confine my collecting to a few, discrete interests, though the temptation is always there to add another.  I admit I felt a tug as I read novelist Gary Shteyngart’s account of his obsession [...]

Spherical world - flat maps 

Geology in the West Country [12:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
Map projections This has little to do with geology but as we are always dealing with maps it is not without interest. read all about it HERE

Dinossauros em tamanho real vão invadir ruas da Lourinhã 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [20:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
Dinossauros em tamanho real vão invadir ruas da Lourinhã. Replicamos aqui integralmente a notícia da TVI: São seis modelos, em tamanho real, vão ser colocados em diversas ruas, a partir da próxima [...]

Two Death Valleys in One: Travels in Death Valley Version 1.0 

Geotripper [00:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (104 visits) info
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It's certainly not the first time I've talked about Death Valley, Version 1.0 (see this post, for instance), but it's also a story of unending fascination. The deep and very long fault graben that forms the [...]

Work on Dead Sea Geology Earns Yael Kiro an Award 

State of the Planet [17:15:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
Yael Kiro, an associate research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has received the 2017 Professor Rafi Freund Award from the Israel Geological Society for work published on the ancient climate [...]
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