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Dataforensics Releases pLog Tablet for Geotechnical and Environmental Field Data Collection

GeoPrac.net [2014-01-07 14:31:56]   recommend this post  (1304 visits)

DATAFORENSICS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN GEOTECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD DATA COLLECTION – pLog Tablet. Norcross, Georgia, January 2014 – Dataforensics, developer of geotechnical and geoenvironmental data management [...]

Antarctic Forum: Can We Navigate Towards ‘Eco-Civilization’ Through Custom Versions of Eco-Tourism?

State of the Planet [2014-01-06 03:49:21]   recommend this post  (1078 visits)

 Did the Forum get it right? A month has passed since the Antarctic Forum completed its voyage to the Southern hemisphere; sufficient time to allow for honest reflection away from the ‘halo effect’ of the voyage. Does blending an [...]

Tsunami evacuation modelling as a tool for risk reduction: application to the coastal area of El Salvador

José A. Álvarez-Gómez [2014-01-08 12:03:03]   recommend this post  (1034 visits)

Following with the results of our research on tsunami hazard and risk at El Salvador, I want to share with you our last publication of 2013. This paper has been published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (link) with … Continue [...]

8 Inch Well Casing Stops Bertha TBM

GeoPrac.net [2014-01-08 06:00:00]   recommend this post  (966 visits)

WSDOT held a press conference on Friday to discuss findings regarding the obstruction that had stalled the Bertha Tunnel Boring Machine since December 6. It is an 8 inch well casing, 119 feet deep from a 2002 groundwater investigation associated [...]

The Heat's Still On! - Offshore Operators Must Disclose Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Chemicals

Mineral Law Blog [2014-01-11 01:36:43]   recommend this post  (845 visits)

The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that starting on March 1, 2014, oil and gas operators performing offshore hydraulic fracturing operations must maintain an inventory of chemicals used to formulate frac fluid, [...]

Siats meekerorum (YouTube video of newly discovered dinosaur in Utah!)

Utah Geological Survey - blog [2014-01-09 01:36:17]   recommend this post  (658 visits)

Peter Makovicky introduces us to Siats meekerorum, a new species of dinosaur discovered and described by him and Lindsay Zanno! Watch the YouTube video HERE For more information, read their paper HERE and THIS RELEASE from The Field

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crinoid-rich Lower Carboniferous siderite concretion (part I)

Wooster Geologists [2014-01-05 06:33:03]   recommend this post  (642 visits)

Last year Wooster emeritus geology professor Sam Root generously donated the above pictured siderite concretion to our paleontology collections. He had received it from a friend who didn’t know where it came from originally so we have no [...]

Remote sensing of volcanoes and volcanic processes

volcanicdegassing [2014-01-08 12:27:15]   recommend this post  (613 visits)

A major goal of volcanological science is understand the processes that underlie volcanic activity, and to use this understanding to help to reduce volcanic risk. Advances in instruments and techniques mean that scientists can now measure many [...]

Ice in the ‘hood

Mountain Beltway [2014-01-07 16:26:05]   recommend this post  (561 visits)

Some ice seen this morning, the coldest we’ve yet experienced at our home in the Fort Valley… 4° F when we got up this morning, with windchill around -15° F. Frost nucleated on a “petal” from a tulip tree (Liriodendron [...]

Navajo Sandstone In Video

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [2014-01-08 10:00:09]   recommend this post  (554 visits)

In my previous post of Monday, January 6th I wrote about searching out the Liesegangen banding in the Navajo Sandstone of southern Utah. Walking around near Yant Flat outside St. George we found it easy to become mesmerized by the rocks as the [...]