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Friday, 07 August 2020

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Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission Proposes Changes to Bond Regulation 

Mineral Law Blog [20:01:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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

Schlotheimophyllum sp. coral from the Lousiville Limestone 

Views of the Mahantango [18:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info
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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? 

Geology in the West Country [16:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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 [...]

C19 Update 

Seismos [15:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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 [...]

Life After Coal: The Decline and Rise of West Virginia Coal Country 

State of the Planet [14:33:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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 [...]

A second specimen of Luchibang? 

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [13:01:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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 [...]

Ätna: Rege Aktivität aus dem Sattelvent 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [11:48:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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 [...]

Ocean currents report - Aug 6, 2020 

Ontario-geofish [01:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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

From Our Collections: a Manangya katsina 

BEYONDbones [16:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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 [...]

Physics destroys your razor blades 

Ontario-geofish [15:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (184 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Help! Running phylogenetic analyses in TNT 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [13:10:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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 [...]

World temperatures dive 

Ontario-geofish [13:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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 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 [...]

She-Rex: Prehistoric Princess of Power 

Koprolitos [09:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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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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