New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Monday, 22 April 2013
Piscovory by Microraptor in Jehol Biota
Thoughts for Earth Day 2013: There is a price to pay
MUSEUM PAINTINGS CAPTURE UTAH’S ROCK FORMATIONS
Utah Geological Survey - blog [22:46:25]
recommend this post
(66 visits) 
category→arts_entertainment
sltrib.com A new exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah uses art to celebrate the state’s geology recorded in ancient dunes and seabeds and the memory of East High School English teacher Cheryl Grubb [...]
recommend this post
(66 visits) category→arts_entertainment
An Unbalanced Terrestrial Ecology in Cenomanian Cretaceous Morroco?
The Dragon’s Tales [22:00:00]
recommend this post
(53 visits)
category→science_technology
Cretaceous
recommend this post
(53 visits) category→science_technology
Cretaceous
Monday Geology Picture(s): Petrified Trees
My friend Ray recently visited Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona and was kind enough to send me some of his gorgeous pictures of the landscape, including the petrified trees. Ray says that these [...]Mother Earth
Fig.1. “Mother Earth”, the nourisher of all things, from the alchemistic work “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) by Michael Maier (image in public domain). “Surface conditions on Earth, [...]Outies by JR Pournelle: a review
Daily Geology Photos – April 22
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 100 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos [...]Best Cairns Video
A pal sent me this outstanding video that stars two animated cairns. ... [ continueRumbling Chilean Volcanoes: Laguna del Maule, Lascar, Copahue, Antuco
I think it is time to catch up with some of the rumblings going on in Chile. There aren’t any actively erupting volcanoes right now (well, at least not in all certainty — Chile’s volcanoes [...]Korean version of Structural Geology is out
Things You Find in the Field: Pyramidal Objects #1
Imaggeo on Mondays: Explosions in the sky
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:01:41]
recommend this post
(77 visits)
category→science_technology
Suwanosejima, which lies within the Ryukyu Islands, is one of Japan’s most active volcanoes, erupting almost continuously between the 1950s and mid 1990s. It has two active craters, the central Otake crater [...]
recommend this post
(77 visits) category→science_technology
Earth Day – Thin Ice and the inside story of Climate Science
Earth Day, April 22nd, has been chosen as the day for the global launch of a new film on the science behind global environmental change ‘Thin Ice: the Inside Story of Climate Science‘. This is an [...]Mallorca foraminifera - optical images
Inside the www.foraminifera.eu Project [10:29:00]
recommend this post
(95 visits)
category→science_technology
recommend this post
(95 visits) category→science_technology
Bersatu Selamat di Bumi Pertiwi
Bersatu Selamat di Bumi Pertiwi Press Release Ikatan Ahli Geologi Indonesia Menyambut Hari Bumi 22 April 2013 Rovicky Dwi Putrohari Presiden Ikatan Ahli Geologi Indonesia Bumi yang dihuni manusia sudah berumur [...]Images of landslides from the earthquake in China
A collection of images of landslides from the earthquake in Sichuan. Whilst the level of lass from landslides is unclear, there is no doubt that they are causing disruption to the rescueLos refinados dinosaurios de Marc Burckhardt
What Your Homeowner’s Insurance Does Not Cover
Most homeowners insurance policies have exclusions that make them worthless when the home is damaged by common geologic problems such as floods, earthquakes, landslides, mine subsidence, cavern collapse and [...]Environmental History Timeline April 22, 1970
Orbital Sciences Antares Launch Video
Powell Point at the Top of the Grand Staircase
Written In Stone...seen through my lens [01:20:00]
recommend this post
(154 visits)
category→science_technology
Paleogene,Jurassic,Neogene
recommend this post
(154 visits) category→science_technology
Paleogene,Jurassic,Neogene
Is the Bingham Canyon copper mine landslide the most expensive single mass movement in history?
Dr. Dave has some financial analysis of the Bingham Canyon Mine Landslide in Utah. His interpretation of some of the financial data being thrown around is a financial loss of $770M, ouch! [Source: Read the [...]Plight of the Bangladeshi
Happy Earth Day!
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:42:29]
recommend this post
(60 visits)
category→science_technology
The view from the NASA Terra satellite this afternoon is just stunning. It shows the cold and snow of winter remaining over Canada but look at the advancing bright green spring in Virginia! This is a [...]
recommend this post
(60 visits) category→science_technology
Remembering to be small: Accretionary Wedge #56
As geologists, we spend a lot of time looking for the big picture. We want to know how a mountain range formed, or where tectonic plates were millions of years ago, or what global repercussions an eruption [...]
Zum Tag der Erde
Heute, am 22. April ist der internationale Tag der Erde. Ursprünglich soll dieser Tag die Wertschätzung unserer Umwelt stärken und uns anregen, über unseren Umgang mit der Ressourcen [...]#overlyhonestmethods: You aren’t alone.
The #overlyhonestmethods meme on Twitter was haled as amazing science communication, and fretted over as new potential source for public misconception of “Researchers are lazy,” and then, like [...]Smelter on a stick
Mackenzie Osypian defends her thesis on stream restoration and transient storage
Mackenzie Osypian is defending her MS research in Civil Engineering at UNC Charlotte, April 22nd at 4:00 pm in McEniry Hall 441 on the UNC Charlotte campus. Mackenzie is advised by Anne Jefferson and Sandra [...]Join Us in Honoring One of the Founders of Earth Day
Today, in honor of Earth Day 2013, the Earth Institute is proud to honor an extraordinary woman who played a pioneering role in shaping how the world thinks about making our planet more sustainable for present [...]Global cooling: Why are we seeing such long, cold winters?
courtesy of Miroslav Petrasko (blog.hdrshooter.net) I think it’s safe to say that most of us have been experiencing some pretty intense winters. Here in Utah’s Wasatch Front, the valleys received [...]Monday macrobug: Carpenter bee
These guys are the bane of my existence lately. Now that the ladybugs are gone, we’ve got a dozen carpenter bees orbiting the house, seeking an opportunity to drill holes in it. Here’s one after an [...]Entrevista en “La Ventana “de la Cadena SER
El pasado viernes (19 de abril de 2013) el programa La Ventana de la Cadena SER se emitió en directo desde la Sala de ampliación del Jurásico del Museo del Jurásico de Asturias, de 16:00 a 19:00 (la [...]
1 recommendations
Review Article: Recurrence Of Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes
Open Access in Current Science: Kusala Rajendran The last decade has witnessed two unusually large tsunamigenic earthquakes. The devastation from the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman and the 2011 Tohoku-Oki [...]Verónica, nueva doctora con dinosaurios saurópodos
Happy Earth Day!
Taking care of the only habitable planet we’ve got for the foreseeable future seems like an excellent idea. I’m with The Tick: “You can’t destroy the Earth! That’s where I keep [...]GeoScriptures — Genesis 1:20-22 — The goodness and fruitfulness of creation — Earth Day 2013
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing [...]Ask not what a search company can do for you .., or time to refactor the global knowledge base.
Intro. The time for great updates in academics has come, - that's the idea of this post; the companies to refactor the "spaghetti" global knowledge can be type of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Wikipedia. The [...]NASA Was Making Dreamers Today
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:50:44]
recommend this post
(53 visits)
category→culture_politics
Thousands of people in the Mid-Atlantic saw something they had never seen before today. A rocket going into orbit. Orbital Sciences launched their Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility at [...]
recommend this post
(53 visits) category→culture_politics
Give Earth a Pat on Earth Day
I've always been conflicted about Earth Day, as longtime readers know. Lately the day has been a child-friendly sermon about the birds and the whales, and much of the corporate-sponsored ...Read FullAround the web 4/21/2013 — Evolutionary evangelism, pink unicorns, and the man who sang before 200 million people
I’D RATHER TALK ABOUT JESUS – Theologian and apologist C. Michael Patton made an important discovery about the “what about evolution?” question back when he was still a young-Earth [...]Geophysics successfully detects void beneath Missouri Taxiway
Airport authorities at the Charles B. Wheeler airport in Kansas City, MO were concerned about a leaking CMP joint 22-feet beneath the taxiway. The sand that was coming through the joint was detected on a video [...]Amazing aerial photos of the Bingham Canyon Landslide
There is a great collection of aerial photos and other photos from last week's Bingham Canyon Mine Landslide at Kennecott Utah Copper's Flickr Photostream. Thanks to my colleague Wolfgang Knudson at Golder [...] Ads: