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Friday, 24 June 2016

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Friday fold: Dalradian schist at Cushendun, Northern Ireland 

Mountain Beltway [2016-06-24 09:17:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info

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Same beach as the Cushedun conglomerate post earlier in the week – but here we see the schist into which the rhyolite dikes intruded: It’s been folded! Happy Friday. Hope your weekend is rejuvenative and

New York City Report 

Ontario-geofish [2016-06-20 13:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info

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We had a weekend in the Big Apple.  It was our big Asmis family reunion, 31 people including lots of little kids. Our branch stayed in this great airb&b brownstone walk-up that was all redone and had two levels.  Very economical for 6 people.  It was right in the middle of the resurgent Harlem.  Very nice.  We ended up walking about 20 miles according to the fitbit.

Wooster Geologists in Bristol, England 

Wooster Geologists [2016-06-19 12:11:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info

 GB,US
Bristol, England — Cassidy Jester (’17) and I are spending the weekend in Bristol after finishing our fieldwork in Dorset this week. Our travel and lodging arrangements required a couple of days here before we go to London on Monday and then our separate ways. We’ll continue to sort out our specimens, work on a

Granbury, Texas: a lakeside landslide that threatens an apartment block 

The Landslide Blog [2016-06-06 09:03:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info

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In Granbury, Texas a landslide over the weekend is threatening an apartment block, home to 16 families. The cause of the landslide is

Cottage Report 

Ontario-geofish [2016-06-05 23:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info
This weekend the rains finally came, and we bugged out early on Sunday.  Nothing worse than being socked in at the cottage.  The mossies are very light this year, and we can stay out until 8.  This weekend is National Snapping Turtle Egg Laying Time.  They are all on the cottage road, digging into the gravel shoulder and laying their eggs.  I assume that the Turtle Lovers collect the

Late arrival to northwest Arizona's earthquake swarm 

Arizona Geology [2016-06-01 18:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info

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This weekend I suggested that the earthquake swarm in northwest Arizona might have come to its end. We had not recorded any events for a week. But last night at about 9 p.m. local time, there was a magnitude 1.3 quake in the swarm area.  [Right, orange star marks epicenter. Credit, USGS] The swarm activity began on March 28 and we have seen roughly 65 earthquakes, ranging in magnitude 0.9

Scenes from a cut bank 

Mountain Beltway [2016-05-30 19:42:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info

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My family and I went canoeing this weekend, and one of the more photogenic things we saw on the river was this fine cut bank: The bank is being actively undercut by the river, as evidenced by the overhanging soil + grass carpet, the slump scarps at the bottom (showing fresh, wet soil), and the bare tree roots that hang out like orange cables: I also shot a little video

Pete III finished. For now. 

RMDRC paleo lab [2016-05-27 18:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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Just for the weekend, the prototype cast of our Daspletosaurus Pete III (RMDRC 06-005) will be shown off in the atrium of the museum, before it gets decent photographs and heads to its forever home. Yes, it has a 2006 specimen number.The original site as found/explored in July 2005. We were so young.We've been working on this for a decade. I'm not sure if I should take the day off to celebrate, or take advantage of the free time of getting a huge project off my plate and start something new and [...]

Airliner Chronicles: When Disaster Arrived from the Heavens 

Geotripper [2016-05-24 08:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (202 visits) info

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I thought briefly of making this one of those "What is it?" kind of posts, but it seemed kind of obvious. We were flying home from our weekend in St. Louis, and without a GPS, I was trying to get myself situated correctly into the geography that was drifting by slowly far beneath us. I was not too particularly successful at orienting myself while over the "flyover" states of Oklahoma, Kansas

Trace fossils in the Massanutten Sandstone 

Mountain Beltway [2016-05-16 12:27:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info

 Silurian; US
Over the weekend, my wife and I took a walk with our son at the Storybrook Trail, an accessible trail with a fine overlook to the east over the Page Valley. There, the Massanutten Sandstone shows a bunch of big beefy trace fossils at this site: both bedding-parallel (Arthophycus-like) and bedding-perpendicular (Skolithos-like) traces. Here’s Bax on a photogenic slab of the quartz arenite, showing the inch-wide bioturbation: A short distance

Oklahoma earthquake weekly summary 

Ontario-geofish [2016-05-15 20:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (650 visits) info

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Since the season began at the beginning of May, OK has been maintaining 3 m3's a day, using a single digit precision which I think is good enough.  Every weekend it has had an m4, which gives a ratio of about 20 to one, of 3's to 4's.  OK is astounding in how slow it builds up, and the ratio between magnitudes of 20.  In many other places, the ratio is 10. They also rate the 'intensity'

Mining in Burma and hydroelectric power in China: two major landslides with familiar causes this weekend 

The Landslide Blog [2016-05-08 11:01:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info

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This weekend there have been two deadly landslides that repeat familiar themes: one was associated with mining in Burma (Myanmar) and the other with the construction of facilities to generate hydroelectric power in

Monday Geology Picture: Folded Mountains in Hermanus, South Africa 

Georneys [2016-04-25 23:22:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info

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Over the weekend I participated in a kayak race that was held in the lovely little coastal town Hermanus, South Africa. The race was held on a lagoon with a beautiful background of mountains that are part of the Cape Fold Belt. You’ve seen pictures of this fold belt before here on Georneys. For example, here the belt is featured in one of Callan’s “Friday Fold” posts. However, these mountains

What’s on in Vienna this weekend 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-04-22 13:00:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (218 visits) info

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The General Assembly is coming to an end, with only one full day left to go. Many of the participants will make their way home over the weekend, but if you’ve chosen to stay on for a little longer, then this list of cultural activities and things to do in Vienna might just be the ticket! Vienna Blues Spring Festival What’s on this weekend What better way to relax after a long week of exciting science than with a beer and some blues. Tap your feet to the beat with Vienna’s blues festival [...]

Rapid raccoons hit Toronto 

Ontario-geofish [2016-04-19 15:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info

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That should be 'rabid'  but I don't want to panic people.  The raccoon was out all weekend, and now it approach my dog Doggy McDogface, who can really put on a vicious show that scares coyotes.  I called the dog and the darn thing came after us.  I informed the City.  I had thought the coyotes would have taken care of it, but perhaps they are smart as well.

As The Science Gets Better, The News Gets Worse on Sea Level Rise 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-04-05 00:58:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info

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I spent the weekend reading the new paper in Nature last week that made a lot of news. (Justin Gillis at The NY Times has an excellent summary of the paper here). If you missed it, the short version is that for the first time, researchers used a series of coupled models to produce a more realistic look at what will happen to Antarctica in the coming decades and centuries. There

Use Science to “Hack” Your Big Idea this Weekend at HMNS! 

BEYONDbones [2016-03-31 13:00:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info

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Calling all particle physicists, designers, open source ninjas, molecular biologists, students, programmers, and rocket scientists to join forces at Science Hack Day Houston 2016, hosted by the Houston Museum of Natural Science! Science Hack Day Houston is an overnight marathon … Continue reading

Edestus Shark in Video Game 

Louisville Area Fossils [2016-03-19 12:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info

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The game developers of Jurassic World cell phone game have modeled an Edestus shark for the game. It showed up as one of the creatures to get past in the tournaments set for this weekend. It is interesting to see how the graphic designer modeled it's teeth in a single row. The real shark is much older than the Jurassic Period. It dates to the upper Middle Pennsylvanian or Carboniferous

A rough ride down the Oregon coast 

AGU Meetings [2016-03-15 18:35:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info

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When you plan a research cruise in the winter in Oregon, there’s a good chance the weather will change your plans. That’s what happened to us this

Friday fold: disharmony in the Old Lyme Gneiss 

Mountain Beltway [2016-03-11 13:50:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info

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Happy Friday – it’s the end of a very busy week for me, and I hope you too are looking forward to a fun and rejuvenating weekend. Here’s your Friday fold – like last week, a guest submission from Joe Kopera: Wowzers; that’s a looker! What are we looking at here? Joe writes: This photo shows geologic mapper and structural geologist Greg Walsh (USGS) explaining disharmonic folding to assembled geologists
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