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In the mood for disaster? Netflix has some good 'uns for you!
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I'll be giving an improv brown-bag lecture next Monday on campus, here is the flyer. Should be fun!
Cartoon credit
Fig 1. FFT of 50 Hz sine wave sampled at 1 millisecond (0.001 sec). Lower plot is the Fourier Transform amplitude spectrum.
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Los aragosaureros Jara Parilla e José Ignacio Canudo acaban de publicar un articulo en la revista @ Journal of Iberian Geology donde describen dos restos mandibulares de crocodilomorfos en el Barremiense de la Formación Blesa (Teruel). Además [...]
Geologists are cool! Here's how you can play one on the internet.
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INQUA has a wonderful new website: https://inqua.org/. Most importantly, it now has a form to register with the TERPRO commission (becoming a member = subscribing to the mailing list): https://inqua.org/commissions/terpro/join. Becoming a member [...]
A Spectacular Display of Earth Science in the Alabama Hills
A chance to display your geological expertise! Look at the photo and describe the geology. Then look HERE and see if your description is better than that given by the writer.
The image [...]
Earthquake Disturbed Varves
Seismites from Lake Lisan (Pleistocene Dead Sea). A tiny slope towards the left drove these 'tectonics' during two earthquakes. Counting the varves between them, you can estimate about 900 years between the two [...]
Je besser die Eigenschaften von Rohstoffen bekannt sind, umso
effizienter und wirtschaftlicher lassen sich diese abbauen, aufbereiten,
zu Metallen verarbeiten und wieder recyceln. Und auch um zu wissen, wo
es sich lohnt, nach neuen [...]
Dangers of Lava Watching
Richard Arthur, a reader of this blog, has sent me THIS LINK which gives the details of the death of lava tour guide. It is well worth reading.
Richard writes:-
I didn't know Sean King personally but he was leading a [...]
Today (09-Februar-2018) at 05:07 UTC a magnitude 3,6 earthquake took place in Öræfajökull volcano. This is now the strongest earthquake in Öræfajökull volcano since this earthquake activity started in 2017. With earlier earthquake only having [...]