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Monday, 05 June 2017

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Missing View of El Huerfano (The Orphan) 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [22:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
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On a chilly afternoon in late November, photographer Simon Nunes Carvalho stood in “the most romantic and beautiful country I ever beheld.” The high snow-covered Rocky Mountains formed the horizon to the west for as far as he could see. Nearby was Huerfano Butte (the Orphan), “which rises perpendicularly to the height of four or five hundred feet, from a perfectly level valley … like a mammoth sugar loaf.” Carvalho made several views of the butte and surrounding area, recording the [...]

Enzyme cleaner 

Ontario-geofish [22:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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I got Natures Eradicator on ammie, but it's sold out now.  So no link.  But I got something better, a drain cleaner using enzymes.  I just have to figure out the dilution.  All the grease on the bbq was melted. This is the stuff to use on your new air conditioner to melt the bugs.  No paying the big bucks.  :) --typing no good since I took a good slice off my finger.  My all-natural

Here’s What’s Happening at HMNS This Week 

BEYONDbones [21:41:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
New at HMNS! FLY! Be Free! A spectacular VR Experience For millennia, humans have longed to fly like a bird, to take to the sky, arms outstretched, with the power and innate grace of the avian masters. While [...]

Some new San Andreas Fault tour videos of 1 m bare earth hillshades 

Active Tectonics Blog [19:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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I have been preparing a lecture and I built some new simple videos flying along the San Andreas Fault. The videos are made by me flying along in Google Earth with 1 m hillshades produced from lidar topography [...]

3D models of sedimentary structures 

Mountain Beltway [18:52:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
I’ve been busy making 3D models lately. Here are three ones united by a theme of being sand that was deposited relative to mud. In one case we have scouring to make flutes, in another case we have have [...]

Stepping Stones eBook 

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [18:01:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
A revised and updated edition of Stepping Stones: The Making of Our Home World by Steve Drury has been released as a free eBook on the book’s web site https://earthstep.wordpress.com/. The revision [...]

The Trump Recession 

Ontario-geofish [15:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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At one time there was talk of the trumpyboom.  Money fled Toronto housing and went to NY stocks.  Now look at the natgas futures. I base my OK earthquake rate projections on this, which is the futures [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Natural Bridges Monument, Utah, USA 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
Slowly but surely, the force of water has carved out a beautiful landscape in the sandstones of the Colorado Plateau. Suspended over canyons, naturally formed bridges and arches are the starts of Utah’s [...]

A day of collecting Cretaceous fossils on the southwestern coast of France 

Wooster Geologists [12:05:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
La Barde, France — Today Team France returned to the Gironde Estuary on the southwest coast of France to study the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) fossiliferous limestones and marls. We visited new sites and [...]

Metoicoceras geslinianum (d'Orbigny, 1850) 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [11:45:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
Zonenfossil, - Cenoman, oberes Cenoman (Dölzschen-Formation) - Ort: Autobahnhalde (A17),

XV EJIP, bioturbaciones en Pombal 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [09:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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Unas cuantas ilustraciones dinosaurianas... (X) 

Koprolitos [08:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
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Sweet Dinos (por Daniel Pazmiño) Aquí va una nueva selección de ilustraciones dinosaurianas. En esta ocasión encontramos estilos muy variados de diferentes artistas internacionales y aunque no hay una [...]

Conferencia “Paleontología en Guadalajara: Faunas del Triásico y del Cretácico Superior” 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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El Patrimonio Paleontológico de Castilla-La Mancha es muy relevante. Varios yacimientos con abundantes restos de vertebrados mesozoicos han sido identificados, aportando numerosos hallazgos conocidos a nivel [...]

WANNERIA DUNNAE 

ARCHEA [02:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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Our First Shipments to Singapore and India 

Riparian Rap [00:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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We now have over 350 Emriver models in 14 countries! Singapore and India are our latest additions. An Em2 bound for Kolkata, India. An Em3 bound for United World College in Singapore. An Em4 with [...]

What caused the most toxic algal bloom ever observed in Monterey Bay? 

Geospace [19:57:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
In late spring 2015, the West Coast of North America experienced one of the most toxic algal blooms on record. A new study shows that, at least in Monterey Bay, California, the diatoms in this bloom became [...]

We’ll Always Have Paris: Trump’s Impact on the Climate Agreement 

State of the Planet [18:57:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
While we still do not know the long-term impact of President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the short-term impact has been to mobilize a broad segment of the U.S. and global public in [...]

Karymsky: erste Eruptionen des Jahres 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [18:13:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
Der Vulkan Karymsky auf Kamtschatka ist wieder aktiv geworden: das VAAC Tokyo registrierte seit gestern die ersten 8 Eruptionen des Jahres. Lange Zeit war der Vulkan daueraktiv, bis er vor gut einem Jahr [...]

Adeline rise 

Oakland Geology [17:03:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
Down at the foot of Adeline Street, past Green Valley Food, past J. K’s Brickhouse, past Magnolia Oakland at 3rd Street, the road ends at the old shoreline. Where the Amtraks roll by was once coastal marsh. [...]

Arbitration 

James’ Empty Blog [13:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (261 visits) info
My reader is probably waiting with bated breath for my views on the forthcoming election. In the blue corner, Teresa “strong and stable” May (or should that be “u-turn when you want to”). In the red, [...]

Environment differences between today and when the rocks formed 

Earth Learning Idea [12:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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The new ELI today is 'Now and then – spotting the difference; how did the conditions differ between today and when the rock was formed?' Between now (today) and then (when the rock was formed) how have [...]

Lima reichenbachi Geinitz, 1839 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [11:50:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
Faziesstück, u.a. mit Moutonithyris dutempleana (rechts unten); Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum (oben); unbestimmter Seeigel (hinten) - Cenoman, oberes Cenoman (Dölzschen-Formation) - Ort: Autobahnhalde [...]

Asbestos dumped in quarry 

Geology in the West Country [10:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
Somerset Quarry Out of Bounds Because of Potential Asbestos Hazard Simon Carpenter, an amateur palaeontologist from Frome has contacted the blog to warn people against visiting Stowey Quarry, near Bishop [...]

Interview with David Peate Petrologist/Geochemist 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [09:20:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
David Peate discusses the interdisciplinary nature of Geology in this interview.  "There was so much that you realized that chemistry could be applied to. [...]

Another video of the terrifying Illgraben debris flow in Switzerland 

The Landslide Blog [08:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
Pierre Zufferey has posted to Youtube an even better video of the terrifying Illgraben debris flow of 29th May 2017, which I featured last

Northern Arizona University Geology Alumni Run the Colorado River in Grand Canyon 

Earthly Musings [05:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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Three river trips in Grand Canyon and a quick trip to Hawaii - all between April 17 and May 28. Whew! That was a whirlwind 41 days but all of it great fun, great work and now complete. I get a few weeks off [...]

Emriver Research Instruments 

Riparian Rap [00:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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Steve has spent thousands of hours of R&D on our Emriver research instruments, including the sediment feeder, dye injector, groundwater system, and magnetic flow meter. He says "It's nice when you build [...]

Little River's People 

Riparian Rap [00:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
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We haven't been blogging much lately - because our hardworking and dedicated team is so busy keeping up with orders. Thought we should brag about them a little bit... Jim King is our new Director of [...]
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