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It’s been more than a while coming but here’s an actual normal blogpost for the blog that’s not just PR for one of my own papers or projects (don’t worry, more of that coming sooner or later). This one has been prompted by some repeated [...]
One of my little geological fetishes is a geographic one: circumambulations. Thanks to the Hayward fault, Oakland has acquired several wineglass valleys, with very narrow mouths and wide headwaters. I’ve pioneered hikes that circle three of them: [...]
And this is the satellite.This is the first storm in a while that is totally due to the Arctic air flow change. Air is spilling through the Iceland gap, and deflecting a tropical plume. That is crashing into another wind spill from the north, [...]
For most of the winter, we had a bobble in the Gulf Stream which threw all the Arctic air on California. That has ended now, and the air is pouring all over Europe. As well, we are seeing the return of severe clear-air convection. Much more [...]
Le piogge intense rappresentano un meccanismo molto importante di innesco delle frane. Le probabilità dello scatenarsi di un dissesto gravitativo sono soggette a fattori di diverso tipo, in primis meteorologici, soprattutto la quantità di [...]
Main topics are: Historical Earthquakes, Palaeoseismology, Archaeoseismology,Macroseismology, Seismotectonics. A special session will be dedicated to the recent catastrophicearthquakes in SE Turkey and Northern Syria. On the third day a field trip [...]
Cretaceous Plant Material / Three Brothers Formation
Vancouver has a spectacular mix of mountains, forests, lowlands, inlets and rivers all wrapped lovingly by the deep blue of the Salish Sea. When we look to the North Shore, the backdrop is made [...]
A principios del presente mes se ha publicado en la revista Diversity el primer estudio detallado sobre la neuroanatomía de una tortuga pleurodira perteneciente al clado Euraxemydidae. El trabajo está basado en el análisis del único cráneo [...]
Predicting Earthquakes
If you want a readable account about predicting earthquakes go to THIS ARTICLE from Nature. When I was at university we were taught that you could predict where an earthquake would occur. You could also opine about why, [...]
El estudio sobre un caparazón casi completo de una tortuga pleurodira de relativo gran tamaño (de unos 65 cm de longitud), procedente del Cretácico más superior (Maastrichtiense superior) de Níger, acaba de ser publicado en la revista [...]