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Wednesday wanderings

Life in Plane Light [2013-01-09 15:29:59]   recommend this post  (1164 visits)

I just got back from Naples & Rome, so today’s picture is another taken on the trip: Taken at Pompeii just outside the town’s walls. Not the difference in elevation between the current farm & the one abandoned after the 79 AD [...]

Not Sure If a Chaoyangopterid … or Just a Basal Azhdarchid

The Bite Stuff [2013-01-07 08:01:00]   recommend this post  (915 visits)

So, there’s a little something interesting that popped up while doing research on the systematics of pterosaurs. First, There’s not a whole lot we know about the skulls of a particular group of pterosaurs, the Chaoyangopteridae; and [...]

Welcome to Chile

Quake Hunters [2013-01-06 22:19:00]   recommend this post  (846 visits)

We (Ed and Emma) are in Chile looking for sedimentary evidence for past earthquakes and tsunamis. This is the first field season of our new Chilean Palaeoseismology project. We'll be tweeting in the field from @EarthquakeEd and @QuakeHunting and [...]

Wednesday wanderings

Life in Plane Light [2013-01-09 15:29:59]   recommend this post  (777 visits)

I just got back from Naples & Rome, so today’s picture is another taken on the trip: Taken at Pompeii just outside the town’s walls. Not the difference in elevation between the current farm & the one abandoned after the 79 AD [...]

New Years Day Lava Hike!

Adventures in the world of Geology [2013-01-06 07:09:00]   recommend this post  (723 visits)

You know what was missing in 2012? LAVA! So I decided to fix that for 2013. This is going to be another photo post, but I hope you enjoy the photos!There once was a house here... well a green house. There also once was a trailTree molds are [...]

Increased occurrence of landslides in the UK in the last year – and the relationship to rainfall

The Landslide Blog [2013-01-08 22:31:08]   recommend this post  (721 visits)

The BGS have posted an article about increased occurrence of British landslides recently. There is an interesting spatial relationshipwith Met Office rainfall

Tyrannoneustes, el nadador tirano de los mares jurásicos

DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [2013-01-11 14:04:22]   1 recommendations  (720 visits)

La revista Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, que edita el Natural History Museum de Londres, publicó el pasado 4 de enero un artículo online en el que se describe un nuevo cocodrilo jurásico llamado Tyrannoneustes. Mandíbula derecha de [...]

Fragrance Lake addendum: Where quartzite in the till comes from

Northwest Geology Field Trips [2013-01-10 18:33:20]   recommend this post  (683 visits)

I’ve been asked about the source for the quartzite clasts in Puget Lowland glacial till. They are diagnostic of a British Columbian provenance for the Puget Lobe of the Vashon advance, and the great glaciations that preceeded that one. Go to [...]

A story of Spitfires? Archaeological geophysics in Burma (Part 2)

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2013-01-08 14:00:02]   recommend this post  (673 visits)

Buried beneath the soils of Burma lies a mystery that has been almost 70 years in the making: were a shipment of Spitfire aircraft concealed beneath a British airbase at the end of the Second World War? Dr Adam Booth, a geophysicist at Imperial [...]

Vintage Dinosaur Art: De Oerwereld van de Dinosauriërs - Part 1

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2013-01-07 15:00:00]   recommend this post  (667 visits)

Many of you are sure to recognise this one - its original English title was Dinosaurs: a Global View. The Dutch title - De Oerwereld van de Dinosauriërs - translates to something like 'the primordial/primeval world of the dinosaurs', which might [...]