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Monday, 20 June 2016

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The Hawai'i That Was: The Beginning of All Things, (Ba)salt of the Earth 

Geotripper [2016-06-20 00:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info

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There are lots of places that are associated with a particular kind of rock. There's the granite of the Sierra Nevada, or the sandstone of Zion National Park. Geologists think Franciscan graywacke sandstone when someone mentions the California Coast Ranges. But nearly every mainland location is really made of a variety of different rocks. That's not the case with the Hawaiian Islands. There

By the Numbers: Air Quality and Pollution in New York City 

State of the Planet [2016-06-06 17:29:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info

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New York City is known for many things, but having clean air isn’t one of them. Explore some of the issues and challenges the Big Apple faces in clearing NYC’s air through interactive maps and

Fallen trees 

Oakland Geology [2016-05-30 09:02:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info

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Naturally, the people of a city named Oakland cherish their trees. But trees are living things, and every one must die at some point. After years of drought plus one wet winter, I’ve noticed a lot of downed trees. This one was in Leona Heights, an oak. When oaks topple, that’s the end of them.

The unquiet corpse of Ingelfinger is still shambling around, smashing up science 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2016-05-23 22:24:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
It’s very doubtful that Franz J. Ingelfinger ever intended the rule named in his honour to prevent online preprints — after all, such things didn’t exist when he introduced his no-prior-publication policy at the New England Journal of Medicine in 1969, or even at the time of his death in 1980. Yet the rule lingers on

100 Word Story 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [2016-05-14 01:52:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (641 visits) info
So I came up with this challenge for myself and possibly others. Write a story in 100 words or less. Make it meaningful and concise. Some writers like to take their time and write a lot, but I personally like it when things are concise, yet meaningful at the same time. Here we go. A hungry

Fun and games at the BYU museum 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2016-05-12 07:52:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (677 visits) info
Things remain frantic on the Sauropocalypse tour. Today, we were back at the BYU Museum of Paleontology, working on four or five separate projects. Here’s Matt, photographing broken bone of the iconic Supersaurus cervical BYU 9024, while a pallet of Big Pink Apatosaur cervicals wait for attention in the background: You’ve seen this bone before – I

How does drilling into the Gulf of Mexico help us learn about dinosaurs? 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2016-05-09 03:42:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (218 visits) info
Six to ten-year olds probably know more about dinosaurs than every non-paleontologist adult on Earth, but they may not know much about how scientists learned those things that they know about dinosaurs. read

Toronto Luxury Condos -- The New Urban Wasteland 

Ontario-geofish [2016-04-29 15:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info

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Toronto condo rents downtown, per person, are up to Palo Alto levels, without the Palo Alto incomes.  I always had hope for the city to be the next Palo Alto, but they are doing everything to stop this, mainly by attacking Uber and making things unfriendly for bright young people. I am astounded by my son's condo security for letting in two armed gangs, and the fact that they could have

Big Design Build Projects with Dan Brown and Associates 

GeoPrac.net [2016-04-29 07:31:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info

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I stumbled across a nice interview of Dan Brown, a recognized deep foundation expert and founder of Dan Brown and Associates, in a back issue of Pile Buck magazine. He discussed some of the large design-build contracts that they have been involved in, designing foundations for some of the biggest bridges in the Country. One of my takeaways was that he called himself and his colleagues 'foundation engineers' and pointed out that we shouldn't pigeon-hole ourselves as geotechnical engineers or [...]

Both Japan and Ecuador Earthquakes likely to go on 

Ontario-geofish [2016-04-18 16:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info

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There it is.  A huge strike-slip fault that it far more deadly than the subduction zone.  That's because the subduction zone has a huge kink in it and it might keep it to 8's only.  Subduction 8's only produce 10 cm/s and no tsunami, the strike-slip is shallow and will produce 50 cm/s in the near-field.   And you never know when those things are going to blow.  As well, it looks kind of

The Rim of Fire and the "Impending" Mega-Earthquakes: Look past the inflammatory headlines 

Geotripper [2016-04-18 07:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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Every few years (or months) there is a flurry of activity, and everyone gets hot and bothered and worried that the world is about to come apart. There's concern, even panic, and then things settle down a bit and the subject gets forgotten for another couple of years (or months). Oh, you thought I was talking about earthquakes? No, I was talking about media storm ABOUT earthquakes. There

What would a Gold-OA world look like? Three issues briefly considered 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2016-04-01 11:17:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
What would the world look like if, as proposed by the Max Planck Institute, the scholarly world flipped from being dominated by subscriptions to Gold open access? I think there are three things to say. First, incentives. A concern is sometimes expressed that when publishers are paid per paper published, they will have an incentive to want more papers

Live-Blogging Richard Waitt's In the Path of Destruction XI: Things Go South 

Rosetta Stones [2016-03-30 06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info

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Tree planting crews and people out for a little recreational fun on Mount St. Helens's south side learn that even when a volcano's blowing out to the north, the south side will also see some pretty... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Things You Find in the Field: Pyramidal Objects #4 

Looking for Detachment [2016-03-24 17:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info

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It's not a pyramid, unlike the three pyramidal objects (#1, #2, #3) I posted about a couple years back. It's actually a frustum, in this case a pyramidal frustum, one based on an oblique, irregular, triangular pyramid. That is, it's a "chopped" triangular pyramid. The rock itself was on an alluvial fan not far from Walker Lake; it was pointed out to me by MOH, who spotted it on our

Geotechnical Nightmare #5 

Ontario-geofish [2016-03-18 14:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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I had thought they would have run out of things to do, but no, they were emptying bags of gravel and filling them up again.  I suppose they have to go through every bag. **NOTE  There is no way my brain acknowledges this as real.  I am in a delusional state, and these are just images from my fanciful brain.  Nice

Happy Saint Patrick's Day 

polar soils blog [2016-03-17 20:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day from Palmer Station!We're done with field work, so we've been using our time to wrap things up in the lab. First, we had to process the samples we collected at Berthelot Island. We had help in the lab this time from Garcon, the traveling alligator. (Since he helped collect the samples, he wanted to see what we did in the lab, too.)A while ago I told you about some of the lab work that we do. Here, Garcon is helping us weigh out the soils to extract the organisms in the [...]

Deck 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2016-03-17 20:31:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
Imagine living in your house if you never did any maintenance.  Just walking around would eventually become hazardous as things start to fall apart around you.  Ships are like houses on high-speed time lapse.  Rust sprouts as fast as weeds, and decks get encrusted with sediment, salt and grease on a daily basis.  Items both big and small can get rearranged or loosened in hea read

Monday Geology Picture: Rocks on a Shelf 

Georneys [2016-03-07 20:08:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info

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Like many geologists, I like to decorate with rocks. This week’s “Monday Geology Picture” features some rocks on a shelf in my living room. There’s many more rocks on this shelf — this picture just shows a few of them. What do you spot in this picture? Among other things, I see an orthoceras fossil, some volcanic pumice, a botryoidal carbonate rock, a rock with a vein of gabbro, sandstone concretions,

Processing samples 

polar soils blog [2016-03-01 17:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info

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We have had a busy few days working in the lab to process the samples we collected at Biscoe Point. First, we spent a day at Palmer Station. We were supposed to only be there overnight to drop off passengers and cargo, but the wind picked up. We can’t use the cranes to offload cargo when it’s windy, so we had to wait overnight until the wind died down. That gave us the time to use the lab facilities at Palmer, which has more equipment than the LMG. It also meant we could visit with the [...]

Linux - Fixing KDE 

Ontario-geofish [2016-02-29 00:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
I've had the worst luck with KDE.  All the new updates always screwed things up.  I went to xfce but then that was always blanking my screen.  I did this: I rather liked the simplicity of the following remove: apt-get remove kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data  Credit to craigevil on the Debian Forums. (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=102884) The thing here is that, by focusing on the
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