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Five-Year Anniversary Edition of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Devonian of northwestern Ohio

Wooster Geologists [2016-01-01 05:38:06]   recommend this post  (706 visits)

This post of Wooster’s Fossil of the Week marks five years of this feature. If you’re counting, that is 260 entries, with never a week missed. To celebrate, I’m returning to the very first fossil in the series, a beautiful [...]

New reason to fear highrises in earthquakes

Ontario-geofish [2016-01-01 18:08:00]   recommend this post  (670 visits)

Reference This isn't a standard bank tower problem, it's a soft-storey condo problem.  At the discontinuity, there will be high shear stress when an earthquake conducts its dynamic fling.  Everybody will be on the deck, with their bbq's and [...]

Everything You Need to Know About Planet Earth

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [2016-01-02 02:34:42]   recommend this post  (669 visits)

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Friday fold: Folded Mountains Ale

Mountain Beltway [2016-01-01 13:21:18]   recommend this post  (669 visits)

My friend Eric Pyle drew my attention to this ale earlier in the week – I reckon that will do for this week’s Friday fold. Cheers! And Happy New

You Asked, We Answered.

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2016-01-01 13:32:02]   recommend this post  (664 visits)

We successfully completed our reddit ask me anything (AMA), which turned out to be the busiest in IODP history! 9 of us spent 2 hours debating, researching, and answering 64 questions about [...]

Agricultural Runoff and Ohio’s Senate Bill 1

Terra Central [2016-01-01 19:10:54]   recommend this post  (662 visits)

In response to the August 2014 shutdown of Toledo’s water supply due to microcystin contamination, the Ohio legislature passed Senate Bill 1, which regulates fertilizer and manure application to farm fields. Essentially, the new regulations [...]

Living the Dream, Day 4 - Temple Butte to Tapeats

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [2016-01-01 02:17:52]   recommend this post  (652 visits)

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZip! On hands and knees I crawl, slowly and deliberately, out of my tent, bones creaking and muscles aching. Why on Earth do I do this? Why do I subject myself to this torture, sleeping atop a clammy boat mattress on the cold, hard [...]

December 2015 Re-writes The Record Books. So Does the Entire Year.

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-01-01 23:15:17]   recommend this post  (643 visits)

December 2015 is in the record books and it was not just the warmest December on record for much of the Eastern Seaboard, it broke the old records by an amount that’s best described as incredible. This is what happens when you combine the [...]

[jules' pics] Happy New Year

James’ Empty Blog [2016-01-01 21:19:00]   recommend this post  (618 visits)

To celebrate New Year, we went on a group walk from Settle to the tea shoppe in the ipsy wipsy village of Feizor. About 9.6 miles in total. ShoCKInglY it DiD NOt RAin! -- Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 1/01/2016 [...]

Unforced variations: Jan 2016

Real Climate [2016-01-01 22:15:38]   recommend this post  (613 visits)

Happy New Year, and happy new open thread. As per usual, nuclear energy is off-topic – it’s not that it’s uninteresting, but it ends up dominating conversation to the total exclusion of everything else and just becomes repetitive [...]