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Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Geology of the National Parks in Pictures - Walnut Canyon
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Dinosaurs in three dimensions: See Jurassic Park 3D on Houston’s biggest screen — complete with a Jurassic Paleo Hall tour
It’s the cult classic that launched a thousand fascinations with fossils. Influenced a generation of dinosaur devotees. Made you forever fear wilderness toilets, whether stranded on a prehistoric amusement park/island or just camping in Pedernales. Now Jurassic Park is back … Continue readingOur first Science Cafe in Tucson: "Eye on the Sky"
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Earthquake activity in Hekla, Askja volcanoes and TFZ
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [19:57:56]
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Before I start. I want to remind people that donations are import to me. Since they help me keeping this blog and my earthquake web page up and running. Hekla volcano earthquake activity A minor earthquake [...]
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Daily Geology Photos – April 24
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 43 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos [...]A Week at Sea off Alaska
Back when I was in the U.S. Geological Survey, I had the good fortune to take part in the occasional research cruise aboard the USGS fleet. (Old-timers may now give a rueful laugh, as the agency's long budget [...]
Native copper from the Catoctin Formation
Another new insight from last week’s visit to the Outdoor Lab was that they have several fine examples of native copper found in float of the Catoctin Formation on their property. Here are a few [...]Russia's PAK-FA Fighter to Begin Operational Tests in 2014
Vole incisors: putting squirrels to shame
A while back, I posted about a squirrel mandible that I’d acquired, and how ridiculously huge its incisor was. In that post, I rather naively said “the tooth literally could not be any [...]Frog Face Revisited
Lest my readers think I’ve become dull, an upcoming post will have this in it, and an explanation. You will have to further pardon me while I make my next few posts NOT about this. Feel free to offer [...]Entre un dragón y una rosa…escoja
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:07:00]
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When the Last Cooling Trend Ended
“The most comprehensive evaluation of temperature change on Earth’s continents over the past 1,000 to 2,000 years indicates that a long-term cooling trend–caused by factors including fluctuations [...]Parenting in an Age of Climate Change: Communicating the Tough Truths to Children
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:24:28]
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This is a repost courtesy of Bud Ward at the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media. Well worth a read. Climate communications takes on a new seriousness when it is one’s own children needing to be [...]
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Corium: Man Made Lava Flow
I came across this article today from Wired and just had to pass it along…! “Lo and behold, what do I find but an entire research field that has been making manmade lava for decades. Sure, we’ve [...]Leona Canyon
Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Reserve is an East Bay Regional Parks District property of some 290 acres that is entirely within the Oakland city boundary. It’s got rocks. The canyon was cut by Rifle [...]I have left Facebook
Please note that I have left Facebook for good. I can be contacted by email, Google+ or Twitter. The reason why I left Facebook can be found here and here. I do not expect to be returning to Facebook anytime [...]New demo video for the National Geothermal Data System
We tested out a new demonstration video of the National Geothermal Data System at the Dept. of Energy's Peer Review in Denver this week. It's been posted now to YouTube.China to Startup Building Second Aircraft Carrier
China will build a second, larger aircraft carrier capable of carrying more fighter jets, the official Xinhua news service reported late Tuesday, quoting a senior officer with the People's Liberation Army [...]Robopocalypse: IKEA Furniture Builder
Well, helper. BUT! IT!Six New Papers from the Forthcoming Volume 'Anatomy, Phylogeny, and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and their Kin.
You can access the abstracts electronically here. Mastrantonio, B. M., Schultz, C. L., Desojo, J. B., and J. Bittencourt Garcia. 2013. The braincase of Prestosuchus chiniquensis (Archosauria: Suchia)From: [...]RoboPocalypse: An Opinion by Robert Gordon
Zukunftstag 2013: Mädchen und Jungen erkunden Geowissenschaften
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [16:36:07]
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Rund 40 Mädchen und Jungen erhalten am 25. April 2013 Einblick in die Aufgaben und Arbeitsbereiche des Geozentrums Hannover. Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer des Zukunftstags 2013 können sich in [...]
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Python Script for “depth vs. data” plots
Today I want to share a Python script that I wrote to plot some lab data against the core depth it was taken from. I know its not very special if you are a Python guru, but I know that many students and [...]May 2nd and May 4th - Ocean floor & Geology of the Coal Measures
May 2nd - Bath Geological Society7.30 p.m. BRLSI, 16 Queen Square, Bath 'Seeing beneath the waves - mapping the ocean floor'Dr. Philippe Blondel, Deputy Director, Centre for Space, Atmospheric & Oceanic [...]Megamyonia Brachiopod
Louisville Area Fossils [11:30:00]
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Ordovician
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Ordovician
Communicating Climate Change
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [11:00:13]
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The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee has recently launched an inquiry entitled “Climate Change: public understanding and its policy implications”, which is due to address [...]
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Los dinosaurios Microraptor también se alimentaban de peces.
Bron-Tea-Saurus
How many starfish species are there?? Where do they Live? How long have they been around? Five Facts about Sea Star Diversity!
Christians and the environment
For an Earth Day post—Christians and the Environment—Christian blogger Tim Challies drew from Francis Schaeffer’s foundational book on the environment, Pollution and the Death of Man: [...]Population Turnover in Europe circa 2500 BC With the Arrival of Farming?
DNA recovered from ancient skeletons reveals that the genetic makeup of modern Europe was established around 4,500 years ago in the mid-Neolithic, and not by the first farmers who arrived in the area around [...]I detect...
I keep seeing TV ads for metal detectors. You can detect coins! Jewelery! If I'm going to a site with potentially buried monitoring wells or other useful infrastructure, I take along a metal detector. I never [...]Long Term Cooling in Global Climate Trend Ended in the 19th Century
The most comprehensive evaluation of temperature change on Earth's continents over the past 1,000 to 2,000 years indicates that a long-term cooling trend--caused by factors including fluctuations in the amount [...]Robopocalpyse Japan: Sushi Making Bot
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