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Guatemalan geoportal now available

Earth Sciences and Maps Library Blog [2014-12-08 23:24:00]   recommend this post  (1704 visits)

Just recently the Geographic Institute of Guatemala launched a new web geoportal for maps of Guatemala. According to an article published by GIM International, the new service, "provides open access to more than 20 thematic layers on topics such [...]

If These Cliffs Could Talk: The Legend of Kos-su-kah, Tee-hee-nay, and Hum-mo in the Valley of the Ah-wah-nee

Geotripper [2014-12-07 03:36:00]   recommend this post  (1021 visits)

  I've done a lot of traveling in the last month, from Arizona and back, to Pinnacles National Park, and then through Northern California to the Oregon Coast. In the blogging sense, I got distracted from a little mini-blog-series I was doing on [...]

How it all ends…

History of Geology [2014-12-07 18:14:54]   recommend this post  (880 visits)

“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would [...]

Pond Embankment Stabilization with Geopolymer Injection

GeoPrac.net [2014-12-10 15:27:52]   recommend this post  (852 visits)

  [Editor] An effluent pond in southeast Texas was suffering from years of erosion.  Recently, an escalation of subsurface water seepage through the pond’s embankment threatened the community’s main water source. URETEK used [...]

Bárðarbunga volcano update 12-December-2014

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [2014-12-12 01:30:05]   recommend this post  (848 visits)

This is super short update for Bárðarbunga volcano. The lava field is now around 76 km² in size. I am getting slightly conflicting reports on the size of the lava field. I don’t know why that is. Lava … Continue reading

A Scarred and Beaten Ecosystem Persists: The Native Species of the Great Valley

Geotripper [2014-12-07 01:53:00]   recommend this post  (846 visits)

I live in an extraordinary place! In my last post on the Great Valley I was discussing our use and abuse of our most precious resource, one of the richest soils on the planet. Some 95% of the original ecosystem has been manipulated by humans to [...]

If These Cliffs Could Talk: Wa-ha'-ka, the Three Brothers Who Are All Out of Joint

Geotripper [2014-12-10 02:40:00]   recommend this post  (832 visits)

Actually the Three Brothers are just full of joints, and that's the problem. If any legends exist concerning the rocks known as the Three Brothers in Yosemite Valley, they have not come to me via the anthropologists or the internet. The rocks seem [...]

Born This Day: Louis Dollo

Palaeoblog [2014-12-07 14:09:00]   recommend this post  (803 visits)

Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (Dec. 7, 1857 – April 19, 1931) was a French vertebrate paleontologist who stated Dollo's Law of Irreversibility whereby in evolution an organism never returns exactly to its former state such that complex [...]

Door 7: Sticks and Stones

Geological Society of London blog [2014-12-07 11:00:45]   recommend this post  (750 visits)

It’s been another tough year in the world of academic geology for Dalston and Gibbet. Geoscientist editor Ted Nield presents their 2014 highlights…        February – the mass spectrometer’s broken… [...]

Leptotrypella quadrangularis bryozoan from the Arkona formation

Views of the Mahantango [2014-12-07 09:01:00]   recommend this post  (746 visits)

At the site near Arkona, Ont., Canada where I go to collect fossils from the Arkona and Widder formation, there is a large pile of excavated clay-stone from the Arkona formation. The rock is quarried for use in brick making but needs to be weathered [...]