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Friday, 19 February 2016

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Friday fold: Catalina Island #3 

Mountain Beltway [2016-02-19 17:13:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (255 visits) info

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Happy Friday – sorry to have not shared any folds with you last week. I hope these beautiful folds in Catalina Island meta-cherts will make up for it: As with the previous couple of Friday folds, this image is courtesy of Sarah Penniston-Dorland (University of Maryland, College

Friday fold: Catalina Island #2 

Mountain Beltway [2016-02-05 13:52:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (616 visits) info

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Happy Friday! Here’s another fold from Catalina Island, California – an antiform in metasediments, courtesy of Sarah Penniston-Dorland of the University of

Art in the rock ... What do you see in these thin sections ? EPISODE 2 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2016-01-11 03:07:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
Answer episode 1 : A horse giving birth ... by Jiansong Zhang our poetry-geologist ! Can you guess this one ? Courtesy of Bill Crawford, IODP Imaging specialist

Friday fold: ptygmatic in northern India 

Mountain Beltway [2015-11-06 13:13:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info

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Another image from northern India’s Himalayas, courtesy of Martin Schmidt: The “intestine-like” aspect of this fold has a descriptive adjective in geology: ptygmatic. Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing, Martin. Happy

Pups, Snakes, Rabbits, and Other Useful Tools. 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2015-09-20 11:28:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (708 visits) info

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Everybody likes animals. We draw parrots on our kites, we watch dolphins in the ocean, and we eat the odd unlucky chicken in the mess hall. It seems like even when the JR is hard at work drilling and coring, we can't stop thinking about animals. So here are some of our favourite animal-related drilling terms, courtesy of Steve (Operations Superintendent) and Kara (Staff Scientist): read

Harald Drewes, former USGS geologist 

Arizona Geology [2015-09-02 03:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info

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We recently learned that Harald Drewes died on July 21 in Colorado.  Harald was a career USGS scientist, well known to Arizonans for his many years of  geological mapping in southern Arizona.   Friends report that no memorial service is planned. [Photo credit, John M. Ghrist, courtesy of the Colorado Scientific Society.] <!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]>

Smoke From Western Fires Spreads Across the U.S. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2015-08-26 00:04:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (185 visits) info

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The image above shows the smoke from the wildfires burning across Washington, Oregon and Northern California. It is possible this smoke will reach the Eastern Seaboard, behind a late summer cool front that is exiting the coast today. The visible image below clearly shows the smoke plumes from the Washington fires this afternoon. A patch of dense smoke is also visible today courtesy the NASA Terra satellite over

Bad News for Hollywood 

Rosetta Stones [2015-06-29 06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info

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So, you know those disaster movies where volcanoes explode like Mount St. Helens, but also spew fountains of really runny lava like Kilauea on laxatives? I have really bad news for them, courtesy of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

New Deep-sea Starfishes honor Hawaiian Scientists! 

Echinoblog [2015-03-10 20:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info

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This week I talk about 2 new species of deep-sea starfishes from Hawaii described in my new paper published by Zootaxa!  The paper describes specimens discovered at the Invertebrate Zoology collections of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu!  courtesy of Wikipedia!  The paper has a very special meaning to me because it honors a scientist who was instrumental in getting my career

Bedding / intrusion relationships, Ferrar dikes, Antarctica 

Mountain Beltway [2015-01-12 13:20:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info

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Another pair of shots of the Ferrar mafic intrusives from Antarctica, courtesy of Lauren Michel… Zooming in more… There are some major disruptions to the strata – I wonder if the story is more complicated than my simple annotation

From India to France 

Through the Sandglass [2015-01-09 11:12:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info

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Indian artist Sudarsan Pattnaik and his tribute to those killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo, courtesy of Agence France-Presse and Asit

BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: Paris syndrome 

James’ Empty Blog [2014-11-27 18:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info

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 So, for two weeks we find ourselves in France. Gif-sur-Yvette on the outskirts of Paris to be precise, the location of the CNRS site where we are staying in the very impressive chateau de ville (preservation of which was apparently a requirement of taking on the site). The visit is courtesy of Masa Kageyama at LSCE-IPSL-CEA-CNRS and our first lesson was to learn what all the acronyms

What your brain does with colours when you are not “looking” – part 2 

MyCarta [2014-11-04 04:50:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (725 visits) info

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In What your brain does with colours when you are not “looking”, part 1, I displayed some audio spectrogram data (courtesy of Giuliano Bernardi at the University of Leuven) using 5 different colormaps to render the amplitude

tiny brontosauruses 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2014-10-17 05:32:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
This arrived on my Facebook wall, courtesy of Raul Diaz. For a split second I really did think the one second from the right was an older-model Carnegie Brachiosaurus toy. I assume that, like me, you have people in your life that you don’t correspond with very often, and when you remember that they exist,

BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: The future of climate science 

James’ Empty Blog [2014-09-26 08:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info

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The future of climate science Posted: 24 Sep 2014 09:08 AM PDT I recently had the pleasure of a trip to Brussels, courtesy of this workshop, organised by Michel Crucifix, Valerio Lucarini and Stéphane Vannitsem. Titled "Advances in Climate Theory", it was a chance to discuss ideas related to…advances in climate theory, surprisingly enough. In practice, that included lots about the

Toward an Isopach Map of the Cedar Creek Mastodon Bog 

Wooster Geologists [2014-08-27 23:51:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info

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Wooster’s Climate Change class is starting the semester by  coring a bog adjacent to a recent Mastodon find in Morrow County, Ohio. The Mastodon work and related excavation is being led by Nigel Brush, University of Ashland.  Above is a photo (courtesy of Nigel Brush) of the original mastodon tooth find. After a fairly extensive

#Not The Polar Vortex 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2014-07-12 01:00:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
That message is going around twitter this Friday afternoon, courtesy of many meteorologists. My friend Stu Ostro at The Weather Channel posted a nice graphic about it that is worth

Would Dinosaurs Be Able To Live In Today’s Environment? 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [2014-06-12 16:40:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info

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courtesy of seaan ‌ Many people seem to have missed the fact that one group of theropod dinosaurs HAVE adapted slowly, and are doing quite well in today’s environment. Birds ;) What about the other dinosaurs? Oxygen If we could bring back Mesozoic dinosaurs, the lower oxygen content of the atmosphere would mostly be a problem for the

Were Dinosaur Bones Hollow? 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [2014-06-09 20:03:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (55 visits) info

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courtesy of Dallas Krentzel ‌‌Some dinosaur bones were hollow inside and others were not. Depends upon the type of dinosaur and the type of bone. Birds are descendants of one branch of dinosaurs and birds have hollow bones. Dinosaurs, like birds, have sectional areas where the bones are used to deliver oxygen to critical areas of

The Slide Fire in Oak Creek Canyon 

Earthly Musings [2014-05-30 00:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
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Mosaic burn on the rim of Oak Creek Canyon. Courtesy of USFS.Many friends from across the country have been asking about the Slide Fire south of Flagstaff. The firs made national news headlines as it raced north out of the canyon, seemingly making a beeline toward Flagstaff. I was traveling at the time on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon and smelled smoke on Thursday morning while in Havasu Creek. I immediately thought of Flagstaff.The fire is mostly under control now and the first detailed [...]
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