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Thursday, 04 May 2017
Sampling plan - rocks are hard
After the casing was installed a couple of days ago the coring team drilled down to the rock layers for a second round. This time the hope is to be able to get deeper into the rock layers because the casing (steel tubes) will stabilize the hole. Rocks are coming up on deck and this is exciting because it is the rocks that will help answer the questions in the scientific prospectus. read moreThe Fox And The Diamond, A Gem of A Story
This large diamond, responsible for catching the eyes of many patrons in the Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals was discovered in the late 1970s in Russia and acquired by the museum in 1985. Diamonds were first discovered in Russia during the placer gold mining operations in the Ural Mountains during the late eighteenth century.Toronto Real Estate Rollercoaster
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A new study, accepted for publication in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, indicate that Hawaii's two volcano summits are typically snow-covered at least 20 days each winter, on [...]The search for the world’s oldest animal fossils
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Jianianhualong and the evolution of feathers.
In recent years, several discovered fossils of theropods and early birds have filled the morphological, functional, and temporal gaps along the line to modern birds. Most of these fossils are from the Jehol [...]A floating university - The JOIDES Resolution
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It’s just a few months after the Kaikoura earthquake and now the first papers have been published already. Today’s paper round-up also includes studies on dating tsunami boulders, turbidite [...]Nevados de Chillan: weitere Ascheeruptionen
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Looking at Lightning From On High! The GLM Works!
The new GOES-16 weather satellite has something no geostationary weather satellite has ever had before. An instrument that can see lightning. In real time. It’s called the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM [...]Tentaculites richmonensis Fossils
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