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Sunday, 03 December 2017

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Island: 5 Vulkane bereiten sich auf Eruption vor

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [15:21:35]

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Laut dem Geophysiker Páll Einarsson bereiten sich auf Island derzeit 5 Vulkane auf eine Eruption vor. Diese 5 sind Hekla, Katla, Bardarbunga, Grimsvötn und Öræfajökull. Meiner Meinung nach gehört zu dieser Liste noch Herdubreid hinzu, obwohl man diesen auch als Teil des Bardarbunga-Systems betrachten kann. Besonders besorgniserregend ist die Situation am Öræfajökull. Dieser Vulkan hat ... Weiterlesen ...

Lava versus GoPro--Fight!

Rosetta Stones [17:00:00]

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You may or may not believe what happens when a GoPro camera is pitted against pahoehoe -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Unforced Variations: Dec 2017

Real Climate [21:02:09]

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Last open-thread of the year. Tips for new books for people to read over the holidays? Highlights of Fall AGU (Dec 11-15, New Orleans)? Requests for what should be in the end of year updates? Try to be

Door 3 – Dive into plate tectonics!

Geological Society of London blog [11:00:51]

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Maxine Smith, the Geological Society’s Online Development Editor, is also a keen diver. Here she describes one of her dream diving sites – between two tectonic plates…. Some of us enjoy hitting rocks [...]

Return of the Ice Fogs to Toronto

Ontario-geofish [14:13:00]

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Pea soup this morning. These were common in my youth. They are caused by the lack of any warm air plumes pushing the stuff away. They were always so bad in the 60's and 70's that the airport and anything [...]

Apple Steals Your Face

Ontario-geofish [16:12:00]

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Reference This is interesting. Apple is selling a micro-map of your face. Next they will be selling your iris and retina patterns. With fingers, you got 10 of them. No so for your face. This [...]

Research Tools For Literature

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [15:05:27]

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Research tools Google Ngram viewer is a tool that shows the number of times a word or phrase is used in published literature from 1800 to 2000. I happened to look up ‘hadrosaur’ and noticed the obvious [...]

Cone Shaped Rudistid Clam Fossil

Louisville Area Fossils [07:04:00]

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This image is of Eoradiolites davidsoni clam fossil on display at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (August 2017). They date to about 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous Period. The fossil was found [...]

Sky happenings In December 2017

BEYONDbones [17:10:24]

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. Mars is higher in the southeast at dawn than it was last month. It is in Virgo, leaving Spica and approaching Jupiter in Libra. Jupiter is low in the southeast at dawn; watch Mars approach [...]