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Thursday, 14 April 2016

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Platyceras sp. gastropod from the Bois D'Arc formation of Oklahoma 

Views of the Mahantango [2016-04-14 09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info

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As Platyceras sp. gastropods were abundant during the Devonian, it is no surprise to find one in the Bois D'Arc formation. This specimen has some added interest as there is a crinoid holdfast anchored to it.  The Platyceras shell is spiral shaped with a roughly rectangular cross section. The whorls are offset from the central axis and slightly angled. The exterior of the shell is decorated with wavy growth lines and some regular crenulations that follow the curve of the spiral. The crinoid [...]

A Surprise from the Zambezi River 

State of the Planet [2016-03-17 01:05:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
Sidney Hemming and her team aboard the JOIDES Resolution got a surprise when they began taking sediment cores from their first river site off southern Africa – about 10 times more sediment than

smartphones in the field 

Accidental Remediation [2016-01-26 02:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (661 visits) info
I've admitted that I am a luddite (really, just a cynic about the brightest, flashiest new thing) here and here and... It will come as no surprise that I was an extremely late smartphone adopter. I was essentially forced to get a smartphone because I was running field projects and it became untenable to not receive and respond to e-mails immediately. Running back to the trailer a couple times

Earthquake swarm in Bárðarbunga volcano (Week 03/2016) 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [2016-01-20 22:38:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (245 visits) info
Today (20-January-2016) at 13:05 UTC an earthquake swarm started in Bárðarbunga volcano. This earthquake swarm was not a surprise to me, since I had seen clues it would happen on 10-11 of January-2016 (more details later in this … Continue reading

Two Frackquake Lawsuits Filed in Oklahoma 

Mineral Law Blog [2016-01-15 20:37:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info

 US
Two lawsuits were filed within days of each other in Oklahoma, claiming that energy companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing and underground disposal of produced water are causing earthquakes throughout the state. These lawsuits probably come as no surprise to the industry after the Sierra Club recently threatened to sue four oil companies for contributing to … Continue

Farewell to Antarctica - Tabular Icebergs in Antarctic Sound, Brown Bluff Volcano, and Elephant Island 

Earthly Musings [2016-01-13 18:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info

 Quaternary; US,,AU
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It's gone by quickly but the two trips to Antarctica are now complete (still to come however, is South Georgia Island and the Falklands - I do not leave the ship until January 21). To finish up the second trip we sailed to the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and entered the Antarctic Sound. A surprise was waiting for us here.Large tabular icebergs were spotted as we entered the Sound.They looked as it they might be from the same mold as they were a similar size in the water.These are [...]

Paleontologists Find a Surprise in Ancient Vomit 

Laelaps [2015-12-09 13:00:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
For all the dust and bug bites involved, paleontology comes off as a romantic science. In pop culture, at least, it’s a discipline suited for Cary Grant, Sam Neill, and, to a lesser extent, David Schwimmer. But, as with almost any line of work, the image is often more glamorous than the reality. Paleontology isn’t

Lida Summit Roadcut 

Looking for Detachment [2015-12-01 19:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info

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Here we are, back at Lida Summit, looking west on S.R. 266. When I pulled up to Lida Summit two years ago—I was on my way to a property examination and had decided to check out the Lida and Palmetto areas—I stopped right in front of...a roadcut! Well, that’s really no surprise, is it? Where else would a geologist stop, other than at some excellent viewpoint? (Acutally, the spot I selected,

Alberto Lucas Lopez 

Seismos [2015-08-03 16:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (253 visits) info

 ES,CN,PG,SA,GB,AR
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Occasionally you come across a graphic that is an amazing mix of excellent information and creative presentation. Saw one today from Alberto Lucas Lopez (from Navarra in Spain) that is the best visualization for world languages that I have come across (below, click for full size).Any thought that everyone in the world speaks English is quickly dispelled, but notice at the bottom there is a sub-graph showing English is by far the most taught language in the world. At bottom right we [...]

The death of dialogue 

James’ Empty Blog [2015-02-01 05:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
So it is reported, anyway. No sign of anything official on the CD site, but the post by Crok seems to confirm it according to google translate. It is hardly a surprise, it was hardly a roaring success from the outset and the "dialogue" that I participated in was a turgid affair where the participants were repeatedly urged to add more comments long after it had become abundantly clear to all

scientific $$$ competition 

Accidental Remediation [2014-12-17 02:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
In both the academic world and the consulting business, many of us chase after big pots of money - the sort of money that would fund an entire research program or keep an office employed for years. Sometimes we compete for individual projects, or we compete for the chance to be put on a list for future work. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the sorts of organizations that have these pots

L’Aquila earthquake manslaughter verdict reversed 

Highly Allochthonous [2014-11-12 04:03:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info

 IT
It should come as no surprise that I think that this is the right result: Six seismologists accused of misleading the public about the risk of an earthquake in Italy were cleared of manslaughter on 10 November. An appeals court … Continue reading

HMNS in the Classroom: Amazing arthropods model for middle schoolers 

BEYONDbones [2014-10-17 01:00:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
Editor’s Note: This post was written by HMNS Outreach Presenter Sahil Patel. Those expecting a typical runway show were in for a surprise; the models all had at least six legs, nobody was showing off the latest fall collection, and … Continue reading

A Small Note On Animal Fossils Before The Cambrian "Explosion" 

Reporting on a Revolution [2014-10-14 08:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info

 Cambrian; CN
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Every now and then there appears a news story about metazoan fossil findings that expresses great astonishment and surprise that there is NOW... THIS TIME.. new evidence that multicellular animals evolved long before their celebrated preservation in the Chengjiang and Burgess shale Lagerstatte. But we have know that for a long time.  The Neo-Proterozoic and early Cambrian fossil record is

October 7, 2014 

Geology.com News [2014-10-07 08:10:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info

 US,RU
A Veteran “Volcano Climber” on Ontake’s Surprise EruptionNational Geographic Chevron Sells Duvernay Shale Stake to KuwaitReuters Shell Suspends Russian Tight Oil ProjectRigZone Exxon-Mobil on Scrapping the US Crude Export BanState Column Natural Gas Shortages and High Winter Heating BillsCNBC Halting New Natural Gas Connections in Massachusetts ?The Boston Globe Conoco Exports Alaskan Crude to South

Gender balance at SVPCA 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2014-09-18 00:06:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
I’ve always thought of SVPCA as a pretty well gender-balanced conference: if not 50-50 men and women, then no more than 60-40 slanted towards men. So imagine my surprise when I ran the actual numbers. 1. Delegates. I went through the delegate list at the back of the abstracts book, counting the men and women. Those I knew,

Nature’s roadblock to hurricane prediction 

AGU Meetings [2014-07-23 16:13:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info

 US
The quiet Atlantic hurricane season of 2013 came as a surprise to many, as seasonal forecasts had consistently predicted an unusually large crop of named storms. A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, finds that internal variability—processes that unfold without being dictated by larger-scale features—can make one season twice as active as another, even when El Niño and other large-scale hurricane-shaping [...]

Creating Geologic Maps in QGIS: Strike and Dip Symbols 

Geological Musing in the Taconic Mountains [2014-05-09 01:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
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Last week I had a brief Twitter conversation with @polarwander about the feasibility of using QGIS for geologic mapping.  If you've read any of my posts (rants?) before, it will come as no surprise that my usual response to any question that starts out "Can I use QGIS for..." is yes. There are limitations and things that are easier in other software packages but the integration of GRASS,

All good things come to an end 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2014-03-26 15:48:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
We are heading the last part of the 349 Expedition, just 4 days left!. It seems that the South China Sea had a very last surprise for us; more than 200 meters of sediments and sedimentary rocks coming up in the cores that we expected to be basalts, according to the seismic profiles. read

Surprise! Core on Deck 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2014-02-23 03:52:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (54 visits) info
Today was a day of renewed activity as we had core back on deck for the first time in while, if not for a very good reason. Fortunately it looks like the swells and the wind are abating and that we should be able to soon renew our efforts to deepen the cased hole to the depth where coring is supposed to have started. read
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