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Si esta desfasado en el tiempo… y sucedio hace tiempo atras… sin embargo hoy en el viaje de retorno y hablando con alguien me pregunto por el proximo meteorito y si alguna vez cayeron en Sudamerica. Bien lo primero es decir que cuerpos [...]
There’s only one major sand dune field on the Colorado Plateau, and that can be found at the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, way down in the southwest corner of Utah, not far from Zion National Park. And
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2013-02-25 12:00:04]
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Picture yourself in the Himalaya mountain belt: millions of years of continental uplift have produced a vast kingdom of towering monoliths, and they continue to grow as the Indian plate pushes further north into the heart of Asia. These dramatic, [...]
ADOT has just posted a video showing their test coring and geotechnical assessment of the slide block on Echo Cliffs that took out a section of US 89. Steve Boschen, Deputy State Engineer describes it as a "deep-seated, bedrock" [...]
Earth Institute research expeditions investigating the dynamics of the planet on all levels take place on every continent and every ocean. Below: selected projects in rough chronological order, and resources to learn more about them. Work in [...]
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Last night I attended a great presentation on the dinosaurs and other (more interesting) Mesozoic reptiles found in California. It was given by Dick Hilton, a former prof at my school, who is currently teaching at Sierra [...]
Conor Watkins and J. David Rogers of Missouri S&T University have an incredibly rich website on the topic of Megalandslides of The Colorado Plateau. The site includes presentations they have given over the past decade mapping the extensive [...]
In addition to my blogging and on-again-off-again relationship with Twitter, I like to take my geologizing to places outside the office. Just yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk with a girls' STEM club at my old elementary school about being a [...]
According to an new study into the Eyjafjallajökull volcano ash cloud. It appears that more volcano ash was up in the air then originally estimated. The estimation now is that the amount of volcano ash was around 100 times more … Continue [...]
Today’s post of the Landslide Blog about a rockfall caused by a volcanic earthquake reminds me about something that’s in my mind for years already. Could we use dust deposits as a paleoseismological archive? Dust clouds of all sizes, [...]