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Friday, 24 March 2017

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Details zur neuen B6-Ortsumgehung Cossebaude 

kreidefossilien.de [19:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (688 visits) info
Der im Bundesverkehrswegeplan BVWP2030 mit vordringlichem Bedarf eingestufte Neubau der Bundesstraße B6 wird nicht vor 2023 gebaut. Die DEGES informierte diese Woche in einer Bürgeversammlung interessierte

The Great Wenchuan Earthquake eight years on: earthquake damage and coseismic landslides 

paleoseismicity.org [08:07:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (676 visits) info
Last October I was given the chance to attend the “iRALL school on field data collection, monitoring, and modeling of large landslides” in Chengdu, China. During the school, we spent one week in the epicentral area of the Ms=8.0 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, where I was able to take some interesting pictures of earthquake damage and coseismic landslides. Then other things happened, like the earthquakes in Italy and New Zealand, with exciting sights from the field shared here, and I never [...]

Next week 27th March to 2nd April 2017 

Geology in the West Country [18:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (276 visits) info
Next Weeks EVENTS 27th March to 2nd April 2017 The following is an extract from Bristol Geology Calendar More details can be found in the Calendar and on the web sites of the relevant Society or [...]

WEGA's NW USA Excursion 

Geology in the West Country [18:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
At Long Last - WEGA's NW USA Excursion Blog. At last, 9 months in the making, the record of WEGA's excursion to the North West USA is published. Lots of geology, lots of maps, lots of photos find it HERE. [...]

Park Williams Discovers History and Science in a Tree Ring 

State of the Planet [17:00:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
Park Williams studies trees and climate, in particular the causes of drought and the effects of climate change on forests. In this latest in a series of Earth Institute videos, we spoke to him about what he [...]

Re-examining the dinosaur evolutionary tree. 

Letters from Gondwana [07:44:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
In the nineteen century, the famous Victorian anatomist Richard Owen diagnosed Dinosauria using three taxa: Megalosaurus, Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus, on the basis of three main features: large size and [...]

Dog Science: How Our Furry Friends Are More Than Just Good Company 

BEYONDbones [17:31:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
  By Jessi Green, Online Media Manager at HMNS   Image courtesy of Pixabay   Yesterday was National Puppy Day, and here at HMNS, we love our dogs. Even though our furry friends can’t accompany us to work [...]

The Mitchell Creek landslide in British Columbia, Canada 

The Landslide Blog [09:00:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
In a paper just published, Clayton et al. (2017) describe the Mitchell Creek landslide, a very large rockslide in Canada triggered by glacial

Study shows as US drilling surged, methane emissions didn’t 

Geospace [15:59:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
A new study shows U.S. methane emissions did not grow significantly from 2000 to 2013 and are not likely to have been an important driver of the increase in atmospheric methane levels observed worldwide after [...]

Details zur neuen B6-Ortsumgehung Cossebaude 

kreidefossilien.de [19:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
Der im Bundesverkehrswegeplan BVWP2030 mit vordringlichem Bedarf eingestufte Neubau der Bundesstraße B6 wird nicht vor 2023 gebaut. Die DEGES informierte diese Woche in einer Bürgeversammlung [...]

Freedom of Speech in Quebec 

Ontario-geofish [14:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (258 visits) info
Reference I just have to give this guy some support, since it is Canadian politics, and not trumpyism, which is what everybody, on the dog walk, talks about. This is nothing new.  Every time some physicist [...]

The man who split the dinosaurs in two 

Geological Society of London blog [18:16:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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A guest post from the Sedgwick Museum’s Douglas Palmer The lecture was titled ‘On the Classification of the Fossil Animals Commonly Named Dinosaurs’ and it was given in 1887 by Harry Govier Seeley, [...]

Gypsum sand dunes 

Geology in the West Country [10:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
Gypsum Sand Dunes - but the Grains are Too Big! The Salar de Gorbea in the Atacama in Chile has gypsum sand dunes, like White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, USA. But, at White Sands the grains are [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Strophomenid brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio 

Wooster Geologists [05:01:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
Usually I find fossils in the field or lab and then craft a Fossil of the Week entry around them. This time, though, I started with a paper and then searched for fossils to illustrate it. I found this recent [...]

Sharing Your Science with the Media webinar 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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2017 Survey of Paleoartists: One Week Left! 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [19:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
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Just a quick note: there's one week left to respond to the 2017 Survey of Paleoartists. If you missed my earlier post on the survey, please read it to learn more. And head to bit.ly/paleoartsurvey to take it! [...]

Fuego: Zunahme der Aktivität 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [13:02:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
Am Vulkan Fuego in Guatemala steigen thermische Strahlung und Tremor. Derzeit ist die LiveCam offline, gestern konnte man bereits relativ häufig strombolianische Eruptionen beobachten. Es ist sehr [...]
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