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Friday, 31 October 2014

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Bárðarbunga volcano update for Friday 31-October-2014 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:40:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
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This is the update for Bárðarbunga volcano on 31-October-2014. Not much has changed since Wednesday (29-October-2014) update in Bárðarbunga volcano. Earthquake activity continues as it has been doing for the past two months. No major change has been … Continue reading

being famous 

Accidental Remediation [22:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (636 visits) info
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When I had my very first annual review, my manager asked where I wanted to go with my career. I had no idea: at the time, I was just focused on learning everything I could about the basics of fieldwork, analysis of results, and writing reports. I'd never thought of myself as particularly ambitious, but as my career gained steam, I did develop Ideas about where I'd like to end up. I'd like to

Heap Leach Pad Cost Benchmarking 

I think mining [22:42:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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 PE
Had a chance today to look through the proceedings of the upcoming conference Heap Leach Solutions 2014 scheduled in Lima, Peru for November 10 through the 13th, 2014. The paper that caught my eye and caused [...]

Double, double, toil and trouble… 

Magma Cum Laude [21:48:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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Zombies: A Seismic Defense 

GeoMika [18:00:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (1065 visits) info
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A farewell note to a former coworker, inspired by John Rennie at PLOS: As trained geophysicists, we’ve kept the office mercifully zombie-free since the Apocalypse, even maintaining a rigorous field [...]

NYC, Gulf Coast Teens Talk About Life After Disaster 

State of the Planet [17:28:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
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 US
At the two-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, high school students in New York City posed questions about life during and after a catastrophe to a very particular group of experts – high school students [...]

The (Zombie-)Toad-in-the-Hole 

History of Geology [16:15:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
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 Silurian; SE
May 8, 1733 two workers, Anders Halfwarder and Olof Sigräfwer, reported excited to superintendent Johan Gråberg, who was inspecting the quarry of Nybro near the village of Wamlingebo (Gotland, Sweden), a [...]

Ancestors 

State of the Planet [15:00:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
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 Quaternary
We are high mountain people, hunters and artists, Our view from this base camp is brilliant and clear. Cold, thin air sweeps the rocky plateau; You need a strong heart to live

Geozentrum an der KTB 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [14:00:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info
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 DE
Das Umweltbildungszentraum KTB steht für: Kontinentale TiefBohrung in Bayern Geowissenschaftler

Friday fold: Four folds from VGFC 

Mountain Beltway [12:51:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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 US
Here are four folds from the Potomac Terrane (or maybe an “exotic unit” that looks like the Potomac Terrane, butted up against the Potomac Terrane) that I saw on the 2014 Virginia Geological Field [...]

Muchachos "modernos" (Dosis Diarias) 

Koprolitos [10:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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Y una vez más, nos complace traer por aquí al gran Alberto Montt, que publicó recientemente en su blog esta genial viñeta sobre los impedimentos que ponen los padres para salir con la gente

Pesadilla antes del plumaje 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [10:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
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 US
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Las plumas parecían ser una característica diagnóstica de las aves pero hoy en día se sabe que evolucionaron en formas mucho más basales de dinosaurios. Y por lo que sabemos de las aves, las plumas [...]

The Mannen rockslide: still standing 

The Landslide Blog [09:29:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
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 NO
The Mannen rockslide in Norway continues to actively deform but has not, as yet, failed. There continues to be a great deal of interest in Norway in this event, putting the monitoring team under great

October 31, 2014 

Geology.com News [07:10:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
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 CN
China Losing Its Stranglehold on Rare EarthsVox A Short History of Rare Earth ProductionGeology.com New Dinosaur: 85 Feet Long, 65 TonsNational Science Foundation Protecting the Great Barrier ReefBBC [...]

Clypeus plotii Echinoid Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [02:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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 Jurassic; US,
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While visiting the Gallery of Natural History at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#9854) Clypeus plotii (Leske, [...]

Archaeology in Houston? Uncovering Memorial Park’s History 

BEYONDbones [02:00:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
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 US
Did you know that the US Army set up camp on the banks of Buffalo Bayou — where Houston’s beloved Memorial Park is today? Yes, Camp Logan was built as an emergency training center in World War I built in [...]

Solar and Wind Fill in for California’s Sagging Nuclear & Hydro 

Geology.com News [01:13:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
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 US
“California has increasingly relied on natural gas and nonhydro renewables to meet growing demand and to compensate for recent losses in nuclear and hydropower.” Quote from the Energy Information [...]

Minor earthquake swarm on Reykjanes peninsula 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:33:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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 IS
Yesterday (30-October-2014) there was a minor earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes peninsula in Krýsuvík volcano. Around 30 earthquakes where recorded in this swarm. The earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes [...]

Zum Halloween -der schwebende Kürbiskopf 

Mente et Malleo [18:15:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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 NL
Halloween wirft seine langen Schatten voraus, und was ist da besser als ein geschnitzter Kürbiskopf? Wie wäre es mit einem geheimnisvoll schwebenden Kürbiskopf? Und weil hier natürlich alles mit [...]

Climate & Society Institute Opens 1st International Office in Uruguay 

State of the Planet [17:55:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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 UY,US
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society has signed an agreement with Uruguay’s Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria to open an IRI office outside of Montevideo and to expand [...]

Brontosaurus (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) 

Koprolitos [16:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
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"¡El Brontosaurus es lo que más quiero! ¡Quiero al Brontosaurus incluso más que a ti, Papi!"MÁS TARDE... "Hemos reclasificado la especie como Apatosaurus. Brontosaurus nunca existió."Ya hemos visto [...]

Died This Day: Johann Friedrich Meckel 

Palaeoblog [15:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
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 DE
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Shark Family Tree © Ray Troll  Meckel (Oct 17, 1781 - Oct 31, 1833) was a German anatomist who first described the embryonic cartilage (now called Meckel's cartilage) that ossifies to form part of the [...]

On the Road: Final Geo-challenge 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [14:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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Where am I?  what's all that weird orange rock?!  maybe I was out too long.Plants and Rocks is back from vacation, with one more geo-challenge to share.  But I had to wait until today [...]

The known unknowns: Climate, Life, and the Solid Earth (Part V) 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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After four fascinating instalments in the known unknowns series we have (sadly) come to the final post. Since the series began in September we have explored the top questions that still remain unanswered when [...]

APRENDIENDO A SER PEQUEÑO 

episcophagus [11:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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Me creí grande Me crecí. Me sentí diferente, más inteligente, más hábil. Mejor. Mejor que los demás. Y me volví un imbécil. Me lo creí, sí, y me puse en un pedestal, mirando desde arriba, con [...]

I'm back... 

Raptor's Nest [10:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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 GB
After a long, long hiatus, I'll be slowly getting back to blogging, hopefully more on palaeo, R and data analyses (and the occasional scribbles and doodles - I won't call them palaeoart!).I shan't go into [...]

Images of Guatemala (4) – Fiesta at Lake Atitlan 

Geology for Global Development [10:00:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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 GT
Fiesta at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Guatemala is a country with many volcanic hazards, as shown in some of the previous images in this series, but also a country rich in culture and traditions. The image above [...]

The Airliner Chronicles: the San Andreas Fault in Southern California 

Geotripper [08:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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 US
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The San Andreas fault at Cajon Wash and Lone Pine Canyon at the eastern end of the San Gabriel Mountains Oh how I love flying. I don't get all that many chances to do it, and flying on days with clear weather [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Upper Carboniferous seed casts from northeastern Ohio 

Wooster Geologists [06:29:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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 US
We haven’t had a paleobotanical fossil of the week for awhile, so here are a couple of nice seed casts from the Upper Carboniferous Massillon Sandstone exposed near Youngstown, Ohio. They fall within the [...]

Mine Water Management–Research Opportunities 

I think mining [02:13:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
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Today we completed a three-day EduMine webcast on  Mine Water Management.  Some thirty people from all over the world joined in.  Maybe you can join us next time we do this.  But for now, here are a few [...]

Earthquake exercise will help Guard, hospital, plan 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:34:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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 US
davisclipper.com An earthquake is due to hit in Davis and Salt Lake counties sometime between Nov. 3-6 and the National Guard, Davis Hospital and Medical Center, fire departments and utilities are already [...]

Presentación del libro póstumo de la paleontóloga Nieves López Martínez en Madrid. 

Tierra de Dinosaurios [00:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
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 ES
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El miércoles 12 de noviembre a las 19:00 horas en el E.T.S de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía (Madrid), tendrá lugar la presentación del libro póstumo de la paleontóloga Nieves López Martínez titulado [...]
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