Posts treating: "process"
Monday, 20 June 2016
A lot of geology involves glimpsing the ideal behind the real. As you look around Oakland, the Hayward fault isn’t easy to see without a bit of training. For this post, let me start you from the ideal. The process of faulting has very specific effects on the land that you can learn to look
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-06-06 13:00:00]
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(200 visits) GB,CN
This week’s imaggeo on Monday’s photography is Godrevy Lighthouse in North Cornwall (UK) experiencing the full force of the 2013/14 British Winter Storms which caused damage across the south west of the country. During mid-December 2013 to mid-February 2014 the UK was hit by six major storms bringing record precipitation, strong winds, huge waves and generating overall hazardous conditions. Despite the overall consensus being that these winter months were very wet, the question arose: did [...]
Reporting on a Revolution [2016-04-05 17:34:00]
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(112 visits) Quaternary; CL,
Here is the full paper : Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas
The exact timing, route, and process of the initial peopling of the Americas remains uncertain despite much research. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of humans as far as southern Chile by 14.6 thousand years ago (ka), shortly after the Pleistocene ice
I’m currently in the process of moving to Denmark. My plan is mostly going as I thought it would do. With one minor exception, I’m having less money then I expected due to the computer failure I had … Continue reading
The team aboard the JOIDES Resolution just finished at their first coring site off southern Africa. The first results? "Awesome." Sidney Hemming describes the process in words and
Spotted by chance, and the article is mostly irrelevant but I did like the refreshingly honest quote from a fund manager who has woefully underperformed the FTSE over the past 5 years, no doubt drawing a massive salary in the process.
There are those in the skeptic community who argue (based on who knows what, salary perhaps?) that scientists are basically the dregs left behind once
The other half of the CO2 problem - with the eyes of a geologist Inaugural lecture - Professor Daniela SchmidtProfessor of Paleobiology, School of Earth Sciences, University of BristolTuesday 23 February 2016 at 6.15 pmThe ocean serves us in many ways from regulating climate to providing food, livelihood and recreation. The increase of atmospheric CO2 over the last century has led to a measurable warming and decrease in surface ocean pH, a process termed ocean acidification. [...]
A new analysis helps consumers choose which appliances to swap for more efficient models and save money in the process, with some surprising results. Best buys include the furnace and water heater, rather than the more visible clothes dryer and refrigerator, the researchers
Usually, by this time of the year, I'm already on my way to Antarctica. This season, we're leaving for Antarctica a bit later than usual. We won't be heading down for our next field season until February of 2016. (That's usually when we're coming home!)Even though we don't leave for another couple of months, we've still been busy preparing for the field season. I built some equipment that we'll need while we're in the field. You might remember from last season's photos that we built a [...]
The permitting process for the Rosemont copper mine south of Tucson will cost $100 million. That figure was reported by Kathy Arnold of HudBay Minerals in a talk today at the annual SME Tucson conference.
HudBay bought out Augusta Resources, former owner of the Rosemont project, in mid-2014 as a result of Augusta's challenge in finding enough resources to complete the permitting
Magnetic susceptibility: the name could seem weird !
The process used now in sedimentology is smart.
2 points to know:
- Magnetic susceptibility measures the answer of a sample in response to an applied magnetic field. A kind of degree of magnetization of the material.
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Here’s the last post (at least for now) in the Fighting Apatosaur Art series — and we’re back to Brian Engh, who we started with. Early in the process of putting together artwork to illustrate our apatosaur neck combat hypothesis, Brian tried out a whole bunch of outlandish concepts. Here are two that he showed
The process of reassembling my cat skull continues. I now have the sphenoid and both nasals now back in place, and the time has come for the now-traditional multiview. (Previous examples: pig skull, wallaby skull, sheep skull. Click through for seriously high resolution (9602 × 7642). And here it is on a black background: As though
Last time, we looked at some of Brian Engh’s preliminary sketches of pieces to illustrate our fighting-apatosaur hypothesis. But there’s more: some way into the process, Brian also came up with this very rough sketch, illustrating a different style of combat: All the pictures in the previous post show various forms of ventral-to-ventral combat, but
This article is a continuation of the article “Heatmap and Interpolation: it is easy in OpenWebGIS” about creation of Heatmap and Interpolation with the help of OpenWebGIS interface. We are now describing the process of creating a heatmap, based on any point layer, using JavaScript, OpenLayers 2.x and canvas element (as part of HTML5 technology). Describing the process we will expect that you certainly already have some basic knowledge of programming language JavaScript and can [...]
The first coring has NOT run entirely as planned. The scientists had their tools ready at 7pm, eagerly awaiting the first core. For many, this is their first expedition with the JOIDES Resolution, and the whole process is new and exciting (and a little mysterious).
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The Hansen paper (submitted manuscript!) has provoked me into mentioning that the EGU are in the process of revamping the discussion phase of their on-line open access publications. There have been a number of complaints over the years that the open publication of the pre-review manuscript can be confusing, as it may lead people to think that these are peer-reviewed publications (which they
The newspaper up here in Arkansas did a lengthy profile on me. As part of the process they sent out a self portrait set of questions. Thought my readers beyond the Ozarks would like to see the answers.-------------------------------Full name: Christopher Lee LinerDate of birth: 8 August 1956Place of birth: TulsaFamily: Wife Dolores Proubasta, son David, daughter SamanthaWhat takes me back: The sound of rain on tent canvas, a reminder of soggy campouts [...]
Since March of 2003, the FHWA’s Geotechnical Engineering Circular Number 7 (GEC No. 7) has been the standard reference document for design and construction of soil nail retaining walls in roadway applications, and really in all applications. The FHWA has released an updated version of this manual as of February of 2015. This new version is still called GEC No. 7, but now titled “Soil Nail Walls Reference Manual.” You can download the document from the FHWA’s [...]
A fibrous rock which lodges in the lung,
Inhaling wisps of amphibole can kill.
While chrysotile's damp mantle story's sung
Asbestos brown and blue confuse us still.
Sheared plutons from the Miocene contain
Some common hornblende altered to cause death,
What process can infect a rock so plain
To make it threaten those who draw a breath?
The saline alteration of the rock
Iron oxidation turns