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Monday, 26 June 2017
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The heat seeping from the geothermal area which is part of the Krafla volcanic system in Iceland, ‘powers’ the steaming vent at Hverir (Hverarönd). The area is well known for its mud pots and sulphuric gas fumaroles, complete with pungent eggy smell. Some of the vents are in fact boreholes drilled in the 50’s for sulphur exploration which have been turned into fumaroles, the steam is a result of a steam zone above boiling groundwater. High temperature geothermal areas are a byproduct of [...]
In a modest West Oakland neighborhood on Market Street is the modest West Grand Shopping Center. Its ordinary building is clad in rough stone, an exterior treatment similar to the Kaiser Building and many other examples. But at the West Grand Shopping Center, the cladding consists of fist-sized pieces of beautiful serpentine rock. The front […]
Team Alaska hikes through the woods on a cloudy day to Cedar Lake. At this site they retrieved over 50 increment cores from 25 trees, which will be compared with tree-ring data from Cedar Lake collected in [...]
Guest Blogger: Addison Thompson (’20, Pitzer College) writes about our first 3 days of field work. 6.23.17 For the Utah group, the first day in the field was daunting yet rewarding as our intrepid group of [...]
This hasn't happened for the last few years, ever since the monster El Nino started to build up. What's important now is the time that it remains stable. It will then get super cold and we'll have a big [...]
Long necks, particularly in sauropods, have long been recognized as means of reaching high foliage. Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus and Euhelopus exemplify the canopy feeders. Yet not all long necked dinosaurs [...]
'Human magnets! Modelling ancient and modern magnetic fields, using your pupils'. In this Earthlearningidea, pupils use their own bodies to model the magnetisation induced in magnetite mineral particles by the [...]
This summer has been, and will be, an extremely busy time for everyone at the CFDC. Summer programming, field work, promotional material, and school tours are only some of the activities that are keeping all [...]
The climate problem will be made less bad by technological, cultural, social and economic change that will force political change. Waiting for policy to be the change agent is an exercise in
Jaime Brocal Remohí (1936-2002) comenzó realizando historietas humorísticas, pero pronto se especializó en fantasía heroica ilustrando Katán (1960) en Toray, con guiones de Mariano Hispano, que había [...]
More information and imagery has emerged about the 8 million cubic metre Xinmo landslide in China, which killed over 100 people on
Miembros del grupo aragosaurus acaban de publicar en la prestigiosa revista Quaternary International el primer trabajo sobre yacimientos de alta montaña con aves en el Pirineo Aragonés. El trabajo, [...]
Acaba de publicarse un estudio sobre hábitos alimenticios y la movilidad de humanos durante el final del Neolítico a partir de las evidencias encontrados en una pequeña cueva de Loarre (Huesca). Dicho [...]
Seit gestern zeigt der Ätna auf Sizilien ein Wiederaufleben der Aktivität: aus dem Sattelvent zwischen den beiden Südostkratern wird sporadisch Vulkanasche ausgestoßen. Laut Dr. Boris Behncke vom INGV [...]
Christine McCarthy, a geophysicist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, scrunches blocks of ice between hunks of rock to study how ice behaves under pressure. Her work provides an important piece of the [...]
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