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Thursday, 31 July 2014
Underneath Utah: The Ancient Lake of Cedar Breaks
It’s the start of another weekend. Do any of our geo friends have plans to get out into Utah’s Great Geological Outdoors? Cedar Breaks National Monument is always an interested place to visit, and it exhibits several awesome geologic sights. Check out this feature where Lance Weaver, one of our geologists at the Utah GeologicalUnderneath Utah: Creating the Goblins
good4utah.com Good 4 Utah is celebrating Utah’s diverse and unique geologic history this summer. Kylie Bearse and photographer Gus Seashore are traveling to Utah’s famous landmarks, and a few spots you may not have known about learn more about our state’s geology. READMinor earthquake swarm in Torfajökull volcano
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:23:02]
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Today (31-July-2014) a minor earthquake swarm took place in Torfajökull volcano. This was a minor earthquake swarm and no earthquake did go above magnitude 3,0. Strongest magnitude of this earthquake swarm [...]
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Arctic Vortex and Fennel Clouds
Cottage Report - Cold Here we are sitting on our dock in our winters. The past few days have been the weirdest weather I've ever seen. Each day we are bombarded by the Arctic Vortex, and it battles the [...]Landslide Inventory Map of the 2012 Seeley Fire Area, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah
Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:49:30]
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By: Greg N. McDonald and Richard E. Giraud This map presents a landslide inventory for the 2012 Seeley fire area, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah, at a scale of 1:24,000. The purposes of the map and [...]
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Los Angeles geyser!
Redbeds
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:46:00]
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Jurassic,Triassic,Permian; ES,US,IT,AW,,GB,CA
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A New Day/A New DINOSAUR!
Today one of the students taking our Paleontological Field Methods course at NC State University went prospecting for the first time. As luck would have it, he found a new species of dinosaur… one of [...]First Days of Utah Expedition 2014
EXPEDITION LIVE! [17:25:53]
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Cretaceous; US
Its only been a few days since we set up camp in Utah and already great things are happening on this year’s expedition. We began by opening up three of the sites discovered last year, including two of [...]
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Puesto de trabajo de Paleontólogo en el North Dakota Geological Survey
WeBlog Aragosaurus [16:41:00]
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Cenozoic,Mesozoic,Paleozoic; US
Paleontologist, NDIC Department of Mineral Resources-North Dakota Geological Survey, Bismarck, North DakotaPosting Date: 31 July 2014Closing Date: 15 September 2014Salary: $5,625 – $7,083/month plus benefits [...]
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Are we due for another Dust Bowl? Part 2
SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [15:00:43]
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Question: With the lingering, severe drought in places like the Texas Panhandle and western Kansas, is the United States in for another Dust Bowl? Answer: In this article from CropQuest
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GfGD in Tanzania (2) – Monitoring Water Projects
Geology for Global Development [11:00:27]
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TZ,KM
In our post yesterday I discussed the upcoming YES Congress and 25th Colloquium of African Geology in Dar es Salaam (1 – on the map), and introduced the way in which GfGD will be contributing. Following [...]
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Malin landslide in Pune, India: a mass fatality mudslide yesterday
The catastrophic Malin landslide in Pune, India yesterday probably killed over 100 people. The event appears to be a mudslide in deeply weathered soil, triggered by exceptionalCrazy Rock Slide in China (Video)
According to the Landslide Blog, this rockfall video was taken in Maoxian County in Sichuan Province of China on or around July 17, 2014. It shows a very dangerous rockfall event with people running from [...]AGU 2014 Session: High-resolution topography for analyzing Earth-surface dynamics
Members of the OpenTopography team are co-convening a session at the fall 2014 American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco: AGU Session #3486: High-resolution topography for analyzing Earth-surface [...]Geosynthetics Mining Solutions; The Best of the Best Gather to Make Mining Cost-Effective and Safe
Geosynthetics Mining Solutions is the first ever conference to address the topic of the use of geosynthetics in mining. InfoMine is organizing the conference which will take place in Vancouver on September [...]Solving the Mysteries of Carbon Dioxide
About 50 percent of the CO2 produced by human activity remains in the atmosphere, warming the planet. But scientists don’t know where and how oceans and plants have absorbed the rest of the manmade CO2. To [...]Fumbling towards transparency: the Royal Society’s “reject & resubmit” and submitted/published dates
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [23:18:14]
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Regulars will remember that nearly two years ago, I reviewed a paper for the Royal Society’s journal Biology Letters, recommended acceptance with only trivial changes (as did both other reviewers) and [...]
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50 milioni di anni di Miniaturizzazione Giurassica
Geologic Hazards of the Copperton Quadrangle, Salt Lake County, Utah
Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:45:06]
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By: Jessica J. Castleton, Ashley H. Elliot, and Greg N. McDonald The Copperton quadrangle, in the western part of the Salt Lake Valley, is expected to experience a significant population increase over the next [...]
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Platecarpus restoration complete! All hail Cap'n Chuck!
Great Tew Quarry, Isle of Man and Leicester Conference
Geology in the West Country [17:44:00]
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Jurassic,Carboniferous,Devonian; GB,US
2nd August - Great Tew Quarry Field tripled by Andy Swift Few places leftThis quarry, south of Banbury, Oxfordshire works the Lower Jurassic Marlstone Rock Bed for building stone. It is quite fossiliferous [...]
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Pyreneplax, un nuevo cangrejo del Eoceno del pirineo de Huesca
WeBlog Aragosaurus [17:30:00]
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Paleogene; ES,IT,GB
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Dinosaurs Had the Worst Luck
Dinosaurs aren’t dead. Not completely. Birds carry on their Mesozoic legacy. But all the forms that inspire ourStudent Scientists Investigate Lake Menomin Algal Blooms
A group of student researchers from colleges and universities across the United States are working this summer near Menomonie, Wisc. as part of a lake science program looking at algal[...] The post Student [...]Südthüringen – Industrie, Gewerbe & andere Bergbaufolgen
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:12:18]
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Bei der Exkursion der 37. Tagung des AK Bergbaufolgen der
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Reptile Grrrl
Oso landslide: differences of opinion about the landslide mechanisms
Professor Petley, the author of the Landslide Blog, has an interesting discussion about a controversy in the geoengineering / geology community regarding the Oso landslide in Washington State. The Geotechnical [...]July 31, 2014
Large Landslide Overruns Community in India Time Denali Duck-Billed Dino Tracks The Geological Society of America Large Rivers in U.S. are Becoming Less Acidic United States Geological Survey Will Fracking [...]Wie kommt die Fliege in den Bernstein?
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Das Eiszeitmuseum bietet einen Sommerworkshop: Preis: 10,00 € p. P.
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(109 visits) Taking The Planets Temperature Is Best Done In Ocean
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:17:07]
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Your filling the backyard pool for summer, and the kids are asking how long it will take to fill up. Now, you could just use simple math (using the gallons per minute you are adding to the pool divided by the [...]
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