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Friday, 07 August 2020
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (“AOGCC”) is considering revisions to 20 AAC 25.025 of the Alaska Administrative Code. One revision would “allow a reduction in the requisite bond amount if an operator demonstrates that it has a bond in place with the landowner dedicated exclusively to the plugging and abandonment of a well … Continue Reading
I had some help with the ID of these next two specimens. They are both the coral Schlotheimophyllum sp. from the Louisville limestone near Louisville, Kentucky. The first specimen came to me from Mike P. who runs the excellent "Louisville Fossils and Beyond" blog.
Specimen #1 - top view of calice
Angled view of the calice
Side views of the corallum with each subsequent picture showing the side rotated 90 degrees from the prior picture.
Bottom of the corallum
The second [...]
What was Tanystropheus?
A correspondent has brought THIS ARTICLE to my attention. And the answer, according to the researchers, is an aquatic creature. And not one I would like to meet in a [...]
US C19 death plot shows a clear split in the data, specifically Monday and Tuesday values are much lower than other days (today is Friday) — a lagged weekend reporting effect. It does not keep headlines [...]
Areas formerly reliant on fossil fuel extraction can reinvent themselves and remain relevant in a decarbonizing economy. West Virginia shows that ignoring the need for that transition for too long results in [...]
I was going though a bunch of files this week hunting down some photos of Chinese pterosaurs and came across this one. I took it in a small private museum in Liaoning ten years ago and so didn’t record any [...]
Heute melde ich mich noch einmal aus dem Beach-Office in Belgien, mit einer Meldung vom Ätna. Dieser zeigte sich gestern Abend und nachts besonder munter und eruptierte aus dem Sattelvent des Neuen [...]
The ocean currents are marked by a huge Pacific current to the West. I've never seen it this powerful.
There are no reversals. That means there is nothing 'funny' going on this
Kachina dolls are familiar Native American museum objects. They appear in art galleries and anthropology exhibits alike, but they are often misrepresented, misidentified, and misunderstood. Even the term [...]
ReferenceFor those of you who don't think physics is important. Of course, warmies probably don't shave, male or female. :)Look at the last release. That's adhesion cavitation. It's a bit like toffee [...]
I’ve got a problem. For a paper I’m working on, I need to run a phylogenetic analysis based on that of Mannion et al. (2013) — the Lusotitan paper. The most recent version of that matrix, greatly [...]
As I predicted from the ocean currents, world temperatures are going down again.We had our little fun with the unusual mid-Pacific reversal, which I call the Halvsie El Nino. That's so yesterday. The [...]
Canalizando la combinación del poder del universo y la sabiduría de los ancianos de Paleoeternia, She-Rex se convierte en la dinosauria más poderosa del universo. Su fortaleza no proviene de la fuerza [...]
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