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Wednesday, 08 June 2016
I am sorry if this is unacceptable, but I desire help from all of you to help me decide about stuff for T. Imperator’s genetic code. Here is info on it: Length: 16-19 metersHeight: ?Weight: ?Main dinosaurs: a cross between T. gurneyi, T. bataar, and G. carolinii.Other species: Axolotl (limb regeneration)Snakehead (foul temper)Majungasaurus (armor/bumps)Troodon (smarts
So I look at my blog today, and a bunch of stuff looked different. I don't know how or why because I haven't touched the "layout" button in a long time, but since the arrangement looked terrible, I made some tweaks, mainly trying to make the links easier to read. Anyway, we will return to our regular programming as soon as possible. The picture is a New Mexico teaser, a sneak peek at a
So, I don't normally do these "end of the year" recaps, but man, 2015 was BUSY. I travelled to three continents, described a NEW FAMILY of starfish in addition to all the other stuff.. Here are highlights....
1. JAPAN part TWO!
Starting at the end of January I returned to study at Japan's world famous National Museum of Nature and Science in Tsukuba, Japan (outside Tokyo). Among
As I was composing my last post, I kept thinking of vehicle-related "common sense" stuff that newbies may not be aware of.
In consulting, we tend to drive a wide range of vehicles - our own, various rentals, and/or company trucks/vans. We also tend to hop into each others' trucks to move them out of the way or grab something, so we may not be that familiar with whatever we're driving.
This ran last year. I think we shall make it a tradition! Traveling with a geologist can make even the most boring bits of highway exciting. If you're having to take a long journey this holiday...
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On Hawaii, lava is a way of life. The whole island is made of the stuff. Eruptions from Kilauea volcano have been adding new land and wiping out old for all of human time, and far before. In recent decades, lava flows have wiped out communities and major roads. The latest eruption, which began in June 2014, now... read
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I finally have an Okie who reads my stuff. I can't feel so detached and call them dumb as dirt. They are living, breathing dumb people. :) So far all the big 6-ish earthquakes have had their barrels pointed away from the people, but that won't last.
I think the media will now go 'the other way', casting horrible irrational fear for big bucks. Poor Okies, they threw away
The first part of my report on the field work that I did in Kazakhstan this year focussed on the stuff we had done in the South. Here is part II which is all about the Dzhungarian Fault. You’ve never heard about this fault? That’s easily possible. There are only very few papers that deal with this fault. In the 1960s Soviet geologist V.S. Voytovich published results from extensive field work on this fault (Voytovich, 1965; 1969). 40-50 years
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I’ve got stories to finish but the motivation is not there. It’s nice that people say I’m good at stuff, but last weekend my motivation was stolen by a ghost. Isn’t it sad that old friends hold the power to rewrite your history when they talk to others? Isn’t it sad that those others actually
Berlin is the place to be for the geo-industry… Visiting the INTERGEO 2015 in Stuttgart I came to one conclusion: Berlin is the place to be. Forget about Munich, Munster or Bonn. Pack your stuff and head east. Just let me support my opinion a bit with some facts Berlin? defining the region When I talk about Berlin I talk about the metropolitan region of Berlin. This includes Potsdam which is connected with Berlin by local transport system (buses, city-train) and is [...]
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(Actually, the last two weeks, because we got busy and didn't post last week. But we have good excuses, as Chris had his first PhD student pass his oral exams and proceed to candidacy and Anne had two papers accepted. Even better, we've got twice the Twitter-y goodness for you this week.) Continue reading
I discussed this a while back, but I tend to lose weight if I'm doing a significant chunk of fieldwork (say, more than 2 months) and gain weight when I'm back in the office. When I'm in the field, I'm constantly in motion - pacing while on the phone, scurrying back to the truck/trailer/storage unit to grab something, hauling stuff around. When I'm not doing fieldwork, I'm mostly sedentary at
Chris is back on Twitter finding lots of neat thing and Anne couldn't avoid a couple of big water stories this week. Plus more! Continue reading
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It's time to dust off the blog, but let's ease into it by renewing our committment to sharing all of the interesting things we see on Twitter every 7 days. Here's a global roundup. Continue reading
Had a week in Cal., doing this
Well, I thought they had found the culprit who was injecting gas frack waste, and I guess they didn't. This is right back to the size that knocked the baseball player on his keester.
In all cases where they totally stopped injection, the earthquakes have stopped dead. I guess the stuff is still getting in. Perhaps they should be like those other states and pass the famous legislation:
What’s new in paleoseismology and active tectonics research? Here’s my latest digest of some recently published papers. As always, please feel free to point out ones that I’ve missed. Jusseret, S. (2014). Earthquake Archaeology: A Future in Ruins?. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 1(2), 277-296. Papathanassiou, G., Mantovani, A., Tarabusi, G., Rapti, D., & Caputo, R. (2015). Assessment of liquefaction potential for two liquefaction prone areas considering the May 20, [...]
As we all know, science has no hold on the imagination of the young and old in our society, nobody cares about rocks, minerals, fossils, and all that stuff. I mean, one could offer a show with that stuff, and we simply realize that no one would show up.
Or maybe not. Every year, events seem to prove the opposite. For many years, our local Mother Lode Mineral Society has held their Rock