Friday, 18 May 2012
May 18, 1980: The eruption of Mount St. Helens
October 1792 the crew of the “H.M.S. Discovery“, surveying the western coasts of the American continent, spotted a mountain and named it after the British diplomat Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St. Helens (1753-1839). The true origin of Mount St. Helens was revealed to the naturalists only in 1835, when a minor eruption revealed its volcanicParticipamos en la 52 Sesión Científica de la Sociedad Geológica de España
La proxima semana se celebra en Málaga la 52 Sesión Científica de la Sociedad Geológica de España (SGE). La Sesión Científica se desarrollará el viernes 25 de mayo. El sábado 26 de mayo se realizará una excursión geológica consistente en una transversal de la Cordillera Bética por el sector occidental de la provincia de MálagaNuevo resto de Neandertal del Pleistoceno Superior del Centro de la Península Ibérica
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A very strange story happened in OC California some days ago (thanks @EricFielding for pointing me to that). A woman suffered serious burns because some rocks her kids found at a beach combusted spontaneously [...]Subastan al "primo oriental" del T. rex
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We used inexact adders to process images and found that relative errors up to 0.54 percent were almost indiscernible, and relative errors as high as 7.5 percent still produced discernible images.
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Los fósiles y la Naturaleza creando Arte
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In times of dodgy media, it’s wonderful to see a site that does simple, straightforward fact-checking of politician’s comments. I’ve been visiting Politifact for years now, and you should [...]Survey of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
“Potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are a subset of the larger group of near-Earth asteroids. The PHAs have the closest orbits to Earth’s, coming within five million miles, and they are big [...]Arizona copper industry honored
Injection earthquakes wittily dismissed
Article "If earthquakes are caused by fracking, then were those earthquakes in the 1800's preemptive earthquakes because they knew fracking was coming? It's a silly comparison," says Ragan Dickens [...]London Underground trains hit ‘bulge’ in tunnel lining under River Thames
Grouting work done earlier in the week was a possible cause of a bulge in the lining of a train tunnel under the River Thames. Two trains hit the bulge before the line was closed, but neither train derailed. [...][jules' pics] Scotland - land of the panini
As James has previously reminded us, Italy has traditionally exerted a strong influence on Scottish cuisine. Cajun chicken and red pepper panini: Ham, cheese and pickle panini: Cappuccino: [...]Name That Park! The Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
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Encuentran fósiles del Cretácico en Morella
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Protocallinassa sp. claw from the Navesink formation
Academics on Archosaurs: David Fastovsky
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David E. Fastovsky, University of Rhode Island Mesozoic, terrestrial vertebrate-bearing paleoenvironments, vertebrate paleontology 1. What first got you interested or involved in your research field? Roy [...]
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Smoke Over the Bering Sea
“A plume of smoke stretched across the Bering Sea on May 11, 2012, just off of far eastern Russia. [...] The smoke may have arisen from wildfires in the region around Lake Baikal, where numerous [...]Public meetings on Holbrook basin potash mine proposal
A Matinha do PICI
A Matinha do do Campus do PICI, junto ao Açude Santo Anastácio.....Alunos e professores da Universidade Federal do Ceará encaminharam esclarecimentos à coluna Mercado e Negócios sobre o projeto de [...]new basement spider
A couple of months ago, I complained about basement spiders, which are black, spindly, and lurk in the corners where I need to stick my hands. A few days after I wrote that post, I complained to a coworker [...]La muerte os sienta tan bien
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