New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Monday, 30 July 2012
ASTM Updates for June and July 2012
This post contains a list of new, revised and otherwise updated ASTM standards that pertain to the geotechnical engineering, materials testing and related fields. The standards for the standard proctor and modified proctor tests have been revised. There are a number of updated standards associated with cements and mortars, and curiously several standards that have been withdrawn with no replacements, including the standard for testing collapse susceptibility of soils, one pertaining to [...]Vintage Dinosaur Art: Life before Man - Part 1
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [21:30:00]
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Magnetfeld, Mantelkonvektion und Tektonik
Zusammenhang von Magnetfeld, Mantelkonvektion und magnetischen Umpolungen Magnetfeld, Mantelkonvektion und Tektonik Das Erdmagnetfeld wird auf einer Zeitskala von zehn bis hundert Millionen von Jahren [...]A Brief History of Hidden Dinosaurs
Even though scientific interest in dinosaurs is relatively new, our species have been puzzling about the prehistoric creatures forJordan on the Brink?
With the recent unrest and violence in Syria, UN and humanitarian agencies estimate that between 120,000 and 140,000 refugees have arrived in Jordan. Can Jordan’s natural resources and social infrastructure [...]Tasmanian Metemorphic Geology; It is wilder than you think.
The Musings of a Life-Long Scholar [19:53:00]
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This morning I received comments from reviewers on the manuscript I recently submitted. I was delighted to see that they recommend that the article be accepted, after minor revision. Even more than that, I [...]
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Northwest trout found carrying new disease
Scientists have found evidence of piscine reovirus (PRV) in 13 out of 15 cutthroat trout caught in Cultus Lake, British Columbia. The virus has previously been identified in salmon where it is linked with [...]The town eaten by the sea
Some towns have all the luck. A thousand years ago Southwold, in Suffolk on England’s east cost, was a fishing village dwarfed by Dunwich, a major port town to its south. Nowadays Southwold is a thriving [...]How Many Gallons of Gas to Recharge an iPhone?
ExxonMobil has a Perspectives article that explores the amount of gasoline require to recharge an iPhone battery and that leads to a presentation on “energyWait? Why are you heading in early?
You may have noticed that we are wrapping up Expedition 342 a bit hastily. Well, it’s because we need to head into Newfoundland for medical [...]Sakurajima Eruption Time Lapse
A video featuring four time-lapse views of recent eruptions at Sakurajima volcano from different$22M in Geotechnical Work complete for new Tappan Zee Bridge
70 boreholes were completed as well as 7 load test piles to characterize the geotechnical conditions for this well known bridge spanning the Hudson River in New York. No significant surprises were encountered [...]Warmer weather causing algal blooms
New research shows that warmer and longer summers are causing harmful algal blooms to worsen. Swiss scientists, using 40 years of lake records, have found that blooms are lasting longer due to warmer and more [...]Can Mosquitoes Survive a Downpour?
A recent study explains how a mosquito can survive a downpour with raindrops that outweigh him by over 50Converting Natural Gas into Ethylene
An MIT spin-off company has a demonstration plant to test a process that will convert natural gas into ethylene, an important ingredient for producingSommerangebot: Travertin “Light” im römischen Verband
Unseren beliebten Travertin “Light” für den Innenbereich gibt es noch bis zum 31.08. zum Aktionspreis. Im Vergleich zu anderen Travertinsorten handelt es sich bei diesem Stein um ein besonders [...]Imaggeo on Mondays: The broken heart
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [09:00:31]
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We humans have a tendency to see familiar shapes in things such as animals in clouds, faces on Mars, and even food in rocks. The photographer, Natalia Rudaya saw a broken heart in a curious Taiwanese rock, the [...]
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Trannysaurus (Bizarro Comics)
Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam
Today a four-hour ride around Coquitlam, along the Fraser River, and up the Pitt River. But first we rode the grounds of the Riverview Hospital. The place started in the early 1900s. The big buildings [...]Fossiler Flugkünstler - Ältester Nachweis eines Albatros im Nordseeraum
Frankfurt, den 30.07.2012. Wissenschaftler des Senckenberg Forschungsinstitutes wiesen erstmals einen fossilen Albatros im frühen Tertiär des Nordseeraumes nach. Die Knochen des Vogels sind etwa 30 [...]Sweet classes in Sugar Land: Build your own butterfly garden this Saturday
Is your yard an ugly caterpillar just waiting to blossom into a beautiful butterfly of landscaping grandeur? Well the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land is here to help. Think of us as the fairy [...]The journalistic method: Making the jump from science to journalism
My geology training didn’t cover the use of sedation in dentistry. In my PhD work, I never had to investigate the details of proposed guidelines for hepatitis C screenings, or the difficulties of vitamin D [...]Donations for replacement geophone hardware needed
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [19:53:27]
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I have been having some issues with one of my new geophone station. This is the geophone station at Skeiðflöt. That geophone station monitors the activity in Katla volcano. So if anything happens in Katla [...]
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Midiendo el tiempo jurásico
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [19:38:23]
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Antonio Goy, catedrático de Departamento de Paleontología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, estuvo la semana pasada con el equipo científico del MUJA, haciendo bioestratigrafía del Jurásico [...]
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Mothers All the Way Down
Igneous rocks used as building stones
Lamb Breast: What I Ate Last Night
New Program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability
The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development is excited to announce a new field-based study abroad opportunity in Kenya. The Tropical Biology and Sustainability Program, which will be offered in spring [...]Huge Landslides on Saturn’s Moon Iapetus
Images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal long-run-out landslides on Saturn’s moon Iapetus with lengths that are incredible compared to those onArchitecture for Retreating Edges
“In the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau walked the Atlantic coastline of Cape Cod, recording his adventures in his narrative Cape Cod. To literally follow in Thoreau’s footsteps today would [...]Dinosaurios en el juego Farmville.
Geo-beers: Gimme an Icky
Slow Start for Shell’s Arctic Drilling
Shell hoped to drill five wells in the Arctic this season. However, thick ice along the shoreline has delayed theirTulsa Hits 108 Degrees Sunday- Forecast for Wednesday 113!
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [09:05:29]
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The temp. at midnight in Tulsa was 95 degrees after a high of 108 on Sunday. The heat goes on and on and on… FYI- the all time record for Tulsa is 116 degrees in the dust bowl August of 1936. From what I [...]
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The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: Twitter and Facebook, circa 1605; exploring El Morro National Monument
Fossil Impostors
Not everything that looks like a fossil really is one. Where I tend to geologize, in fact, the majority of the odd things I see are pseudofossils. In an effort to share my knowledge, I've put together a set of [...]US Temperature trends show a spurious doubling due to NOAA station siting problems and post measurement adjustments says a new study
Anthony Watts, proprietor of the website Watts Up With That has issued a press release announcing the result of a 5-year study of US temperature data for the period 1979-2008. The major conclusions are: Many [...]Top concepts:
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