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Thursday, 17 October 2019

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Geowissenschaften – ein kurzes Plädoyer

Mente et Malleo [22:51:22]

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Die meisten Leute haben vermutlich ein ziemlich festes Bild von einem Geologen. Entweder der Indiana-Jones-Typ, der mit Lederjacke und Borsalino nach Dinosauriern gräbt. Oder wahrscheinlich der bärtige Typ, der ölverschmutzt den Managern sagt, wo sie … Der Beitrag Geowissenschaften – ein kurzes Plädoyer erschien zuerst auf Mente et Malleo.

Anak Krakatau eruptiert surtseyanisch

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [20:54:51]

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Der indonesische Inselvulkan im Sunda Strait eruptierte erneut. Wie gehabt war es eine Mischung zwischen phreatischer- und surtseyanischer Eruption, bei der neben Dampf und Schlamm auch Vulkanasche gefördert wurde. Im Unterschied zu vorherigen Eruptionen war diesmal eine Kamera zugegen, die das Geschehen

MAMMUT AMERICANUM

ARCHEA [16:39:00]

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The American Mastodon, Mammut americanum. Mastodons resemble elephants, but are more like elephant cousins. A second species, Mammut pacificus, has recently been described from fossils found in Idaho and [...]

Alum Trained and Ready for Climate Action in Any Environment

State of the Planet [14:50:46]

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Since graduating from the Sustainability Management program, Megan Burns has positioned herself for long-term career growth in climate

Bubble Experiments at Durham University

Earth & Solar System [10:34:17]

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Back in August, I spent 2 weeks with Durham University’s volcanology research group, devising and conducting some experiments. In a nutshell, I was looking at how bubbles behave in a non-Newtonian fluid [...]

The Day of the Dinosaur, and the legend of the regrown sauropod tail

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [04:44:41]

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After this year’s SVPCA, Vicki and London and I spent a few days with the Taylor family in the lovely village of Ruardean. It wasn’t all faffing about with the Iguanodon pelvis, the above photo [...]

Vancouver earthquake map

Ontario-geofish [15:52:00]

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Yeah, something to do with earthquakes. I love earthquakes much more than the whole globby warming thing, but almost no earthquakes in the past year or two. I think this map is based on the building stock, [...]

Cretaceous (Tadd Galusha)

Koprolitos [13:50:00]

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Galusha, en su cubil de Alaska El pasado 26 de marzo, Oni Press lanzó el cómic –bajo nuestro punto de vista- más interesante del año: Cretaceous, de Tadd Galusha. Los Chugach son un pueblo esquimal, en [...]

We mourn the passing of Prof. Dr. Victor Hugo Garduño Monroy

paleoseismicity.org [10:05:59]

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Dear colleagues, It is with great sadness that we received note from the passing of our dear colleague Victor Hugo Gorduño Monroy. Victor was a close friend to many of us and an outstanding person in the [...]