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Mapalomalia lets geologists create and visualize 3D geological models from their browsers. It’s a free to use geological modeling platform. I hope people will use it to convey information about our planet that helps humankind to tackle big [...]
Things remain frantic on the Sauropocalypse tour. Today, we were back at the BYU Museum of Paleontology, working on four or five separate projects. Here’s Matt, photographing broken bone of the iconic Supersaurus cervical BYU 9024, while a [...]
Today’s paper round-up covers a very wide spectrum of earthquake related studies. We have work on tsunamis, turbidites, and lake paleoseismology, paleoseismological data from Asia, Archaeoseismology, mud volcanoes, the ESI-2007 scale, and an [...]
The 2nd field meeting of the Argentinian Association for Quaternary and Geomorphology (Reunión de CAMPO de la Asociacion Argentina de Cuaternario y Geomorfología) will be held from 6-8 October, 2016, in San Juan. The conference covers all aspects [...]
Before I started on my adventure in Oklahoma I landed in Dallas and drove north to a site that a good friend had suggested I visit. It was a creek that exposed the Duck Creek formation (Cretaceous, Albian stage) in a couple of spots. Having never [...]
I found another type of ammonite, in the north Texas creek bed I was exploring, called Eopachydiscus sp. I found a large number of them, in fact, but as many were sizable and heavy I only packed out one. I saw some that were well over 18" in [...]
Not all dinosaurs are as well known as the Famous Four (Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and Stegosaurus). Here are ten dinosaurs that you have probably never heard of:
1. Orthomerus dolloi
A poorly known hadrosaurid from [...]
La teoria pseudoscientifica di Charles H. Hapgood (1904-1982) sullo slittamento polare è strettamente legata alla scoperta della mappa di Piri Reis (Piri Reis era un´cartografo ottomano, 1465/70–1553). A detta di Hapgood la mappa [...]
So I came up with this challenge for myself and possibly others. Write a story in 100 words or less. Make it meaningful and concise. Some writers like to take their time and write a lot, but I personally like it when things are concise, yet [...]
The JOIDES Resolution and the Liftboat Myrtle are both being used as platforms for ocean scientific drilling, but, beyond that, they don't have a lot in common.
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