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Thursday, 04 May 2017
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 average, but that the snow cover will nearly disappear by the end of the
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 paleoseismology, paleoseismology in the Tien Shan, the recent Italy and New Zealand earthquakes, and earthquakes and social media. Enjoy reading! Blumetti, A. M., Grützner, C., Guerrieri, L., & Livio, F. (2017). Quaternary earthquakes: Geology and palaeoseismology for seismic hazard assessment. [...]
Los lectores aficionados a la Historia saben, gracias a la obra de Fuller, que la Guerra del Norte dio origen a la moderna Rusia, de la mano del zar Pedro I, el Grande. Sin embargo, el autor de Batallas [...]
As some of you will know, I spent the last six years working on my PhD thesis about the cultural, scientific, and political influence of Andrew Carnegie’s casts of the dinosaur Diplodocus carnegii (and one [...]
When the kids were little I was forced to go on a lot of rollercoasters. blah. There's always the part where they go up, and the rails go tickety, tickety. It's being on the top that starts the whip [...]
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This month’s GeoRoundUp is a slight deviation from the norm. Instead of drawing inspiration from popular stories on our social media channels and unique or quirky research featured in the news, we’ve [...]
Here is an image of a nice plate of fossils found in the Lexington Limestone of Franklin County, Kentucky USA. There are at least 8 Tentaculites richmonensis shown in the image around that brown object which [...]
Now that things are settling in and everyone knows the realm of their lab and the desired format of the reports the scientists have found their work flow. [...]
Community slope SAFE is a new, low cost landslide warning system designed to protect vulnerable communities in less affluent
Der Vulkan Nevados de Chillan liegt in der chilenischen Region Bio Bio. Seit letztem Monat kommt es immer wieder zu sporadischen Ascheeruptionen, so auch gestern. Der Alarmstatus steht auf gelb. Mit etwas [...]
New research on some of the world's oldest potential animal fossils is published today in the Journal of the Geological Society. Continue reading →
Del 26 al 29 de abril se celebraron, en la Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal), el primer Encontro de Zooarqueologia Ibérica (EZI2017) y la 5ª Reunião Científica de Arqueomalacologia da Península [...]
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 [...]
Clarence King was a legend. He led one of the four great surveys of the American west (along with Wheeler, Powell, and Hayden) and eventually convinced Congress to establish One Survey To Rule Them All, an [...]
"The VelociPastor" fue concebido en 2011 como un fake trailer al estilo de los que acompañaban el "Grindhouse" de Robert Rodriguez y Quentin Tarantino. La trama iba sobre un sacerdote que se araña con un [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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