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From Smallest of Clues, Flying Reptiles Reborn: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs

Utah Geological Survey - blog [2014-04-14 17:34:27]   recommend this post  (871 visits)

nytimes.com About 220 million years ago, as we learn at a thoroughly entrancing new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, a fish caught a pterosaur, chewed it up and spit out the pieces. The expelled mass eventually fossilized, [...]

Study Suggests EPA Underestimated Natural Gas Methane Emissions, But Not for Fracking, and EPA Releases Study Examining Fracking Emissions Controls

Mineral Law Blog [2014-04-17 20:24:52]   recommend this post  (836 visits)

In several recent studies on methane emissions relating to the natural gas industry, scientists concluded that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) underestimated the quantity of methane the industry releases to the atmosphere. A study [...]

Edge States: Wendover Launch

Friends of the Pleistocene [2014-04-19 06:20:20]   recommend this post  (807 visits)

residency support unit and Exhibition Hall 2, CLUI Wendover, UT We’re happy to announce the opening of Look Only at the Movement in Wendover, Utah.  Wendover is located 2,292 miles west of New York City via Interstate 80. The  work can be [...]

Renewed earthquake activity in Hekla volcano

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [2014-04-14 18:39:41]   recommend this post  (716 visits)

Today (14-April-2014) an earthquake swarm took place in south part of Hekla volcano. The earthquake swarm took place close to Vatnafjöll mountains. This area is made up of crater rows from earlier eruptions. The largest earthquake in this … [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An unusual scleractinian coral from the Upper Cretaceous of Israel

Wooster Geologists [2014-04-13 07:17:56]   recommend this post  (712 visits)

Originally this was going to be a mystery fossil for a crowd-sourced identification while I’m here in Israel doing fieldwork, but through the wonders of the internet I finally found a match for the strange fossil above: it is the scleractinian [...]

Great stereonet applications

Structural Geology Blog [2014-04-15 00:52:35]   recommend this post  (700 visits)

Stereonet plotting programs are extremely valuable, particularly to those of us that are collecting field data. I have enjoyed using my iPhone app (GeoID) to collect geo-tagged measurements over the last year or two, and being able to easily import [...]

Structural geology and tectonics

Structural Geology Blog [2014-04-14 13:18:30]   recommend this post  (668 visits)

This video point at some basic aspects of structural geology, emphasizing the importance of being able to read information out of structures, and to put this information into a larger-scale tectonic

New papers on tsunamis, archeoseismology, paleoseismology, seismic hazard

Paleoseismicity [2014-04-14 10:35:17]   recommend this post  (660 visits)

I added a couple of new papers to my literature collection last week. The studies deal with trenching in Iran and in China, tsunami research in Japan, Malta and Thailand, with archaeoseismology in Italy, and with seismic hazard of old … [...]

Bruce Black Hole gets into geoscience

Ontario-geofish [2014-04-13 13:22:00]   recommend this post  (649 visits)

Reference I didn't even read the response, it would probably make me barf.  Anyway the panel went nuts on stress measurement.  Hello!  The reason this is the worst rock in the world is the fact that it has no stress!  It's right on top of the [...]

Mine Closure: New Ideas & Practice: EduMine Webcast and InfoMine Conference.

I think mining [2014-04-13 07:01:43]   recommend this post  (615 visits)

More is said about mine closure than is done about mine closure.  Will they ever close Giant and Faro?  I doubt it.  Still if the topic interests you, here a few upcoming events. The InfoMine Mine Closure Conference in Belo Horizonte promises [...]