Posts treating: "Atlas"
Thursday, 16 April 2015
I've received some new brachiopod specimens from Morocco recently and this Gypidulid is one of them. The shell is about as wide as it is long with very unequal valves. The pedicle valve is very convex and curved while the brachial valve is only slightly convex. There is no sulcus in the shell and it is smooth except for some very fine concentric growth lines. I believe this should be called Devonogypa spinulosa after reading the paper, Middle Devonian brachiopods from the southern Maïder [...]
I've only recently become proficient enough to recognize Spinocyrtia brachiopods apart from Mediospirifers when collecting the middle Devonian in New York. When I saw the fossils below for the first time, though, I knew they looked familiar. They are Spinocyrtia elburzensis from Jebel Oufatene near Alnif in Morocco and they come from middle Devonian aged rocks (Emsian stage). They have a very striking resemblance to S. granulosa which is found in the Givetian stage rocks of New York.I posted [...]
I've been wanting to get some Devonian fossils from Morocco that were not trilobites for some time now. My thought was that they had to exist out there in the desert but that they weree just being overlooked by the collectors since they could make more money selling trilobites. Lucky for me that I stumbled upon a dealer on Facebook who did have some brachiopods from Jebel Issomour for sale and I snapped them up.This is Glyptogypa multiplicata and comes from rocks dated to the Eifelian [...]
Where does London get its fruit? Where are the “food swamps” in Los Angeles? Where do tomatoes from Spain wind up? Where are the composters in New York City? For lovers of geography, and of the sociology of food, “Food: an atlas” offers lots of informative and curious
drip | david’s really interesting pages... [2013-10-27 10:20:00]
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Larry Witmer has made a true gem accessible to WitmerLab readers… Ghetie’s Atlas of Avian Anatomy. I’m too busy right now to do more than browse through it but be assured: it’s 285 pages of lavishly illustrated guts and bones of domestic birds. Chapters: preface, overview of the domestic birds (rooster / chickens, ducks, guinea-fowl,
Inside the www.foraminifera.eu Project [2013-03-10 20:13:00]
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The Atlas of Boreal Maastrichtian Foraminifera is building up.350+ images are added and accessible through The first goal will be to add about 600 images. In May the working group "Atlas of Boreal Maastrichtian Foraminifera" will meet and discuss how to move on. It is not clear, whether we have the capacity to add pages on single species with further explanations. There are several samples waiting to be processed. Lets see, which path we follow.
Although the natural gas boom in the United States lured many small and large oil companies to invest heavily in the shale plays, Chevron concentrated on oil and didn’t touch natural gas until it recently acquired Atlas
Taking advantage of the summer A/C maintenance related closure of the Texas Memorial Museum, we've taken the opportunity to pull some specimens from exhibit for study, conservation, and, in the case of the subject of this post, mold making. One of the stars of the TMM exhibits, a 1 and 1/4 size Homotherium serum bronze sculpture adorns the front steps of the Museum. Pretty wicked, eh? A large number of specimens of this animal were collected 60 years ago from Friesenhan cave by TMM [...]
Today's VDA post is bite-sized, featuring only two little illustrations. But they're a neat change of pace, I hope you'll agree.Hank Chapman was a prominent comics artist who worked for Timely, Atlas, and DC comics. He's also one of the few entrants in this long, proud series famous enough to warrant a Wikipedia page of his very own. He's also well-known for his war comics in the fifties, having written over a hundred, but in the mid-sixties, he "fell off the map." Crammed next to [...]
The David Rumsey Collection, the fantastic online resource for digitized historic maps, has recently scanned and made available a 1905 Sanborn fire insurance atlas of the City of San Francisco. The atlas is very valuable resource for many reasons, thogh specifically beccause it dates to just months before the historic 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed a large portion of the city.
The original atlas belongs to the San Francisco Public Library's San Francisco History Center. You can [...]
This week’s Seafloor Sunday is from the site Virtual Seismic Atlas, which is a gallery of seismic-reflection images donated to the scientific community largely by petroleum and marine geotechnical companies and some other sources. The images are for anyone to use for education purposes. There’s some great stuff in there, I know I’ll be using
Major oil companies are rapidly buying the small players in the Marcellus Shale gas play. Exxon Mobil Corporation just spent $1.7 billion to purchase Phillips Resources, Inc. and TWP Inc. This follows Chevron’s recent acquisition of Atlas Energy and other
"The sun begins to fade away, the continent sinks into the sea:The bright stars, they disappear from the sky:Smoke hurls up from the burning fire and destroys the world;Gigantic flames reach into the sky."The end of the world according to the Icelandic collection of sagas "Völuspa" (13th century)Fig.1. Hand coloured copper engraving of Iceland and some of its volcanoes, from the Physical Atlas by Heinrich Berghaus (1838-48).Volcanoes are nothing unusual on Iceland, but after three weeks of [...]
Quase metade das espécies de animais sob risco de serem extintos no Brasil ainda não encontra abrigo em áreas protegidas do governo federal, segundo informações do Atlas da Fauna Brasileira. A publicação traz o cruzamento de informações de 618 espécies brasileiras ameaçadas e de 310 unidades de conservação federais. Além de dados gerais, a publicação (que pode também ser encontrada na internet) traz a lista de espécies ameaçadas encontradas em cada uma das UCs federais.De [...]
Chevron continues the stream of large diversified oil and gas companies who are buying up smaller companies with a heavy focus on natural gas shales. Atlas had lots of assets in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Many of those leases probably give access to the deeper Utica Shale which is attracting more
An iPhone and iPad App put together by Columbia University. From the iTunes Description:
Explore your planet as never before with the mobility of EarthObserver. Use your fingertips to travel through terrestrial landscapes and across the ocean floor. Visit frozen icecaps, study geological maps, scout mountains to climb and trips on coastal waters and exploit a rich atlas of other earth and environmental imagery. [Source:
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Die Universität Augsburg hat den Atlas zur deutschen A
“There could be as much as 5,700 years of carbon dioxide storage potential available in geologic formations in the United States and portions of Canada, according to the latest edition of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Carbon Sequestration
Ptolemäus’ Atlas der Ökumene entstand im 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Die darin enthaltene Landkarte von „Magna Germania“ (Großgermanien) enthält 137 geografische Angaben, darunter 94 Städte. Allerdings waren viele der Angaben aufgrund von Ungenauigkeiten nicht genau zuzuordnen. Einem interdisziplinärem Forscherteam* ist es nun erstmals gelungen, die von Ptolemäus genannten 94 Orte
Der geographische Atlas Mittelsachsen ist online gegangen. er basiert auf dem Open Street Map Projekt. Mit Hilfe einer Voltextsuche können interesante Orte aufgerufen und zwischen Karte und Luftbild umgeschaltet sowie GeoRSS und KML genutzt