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Thursday, 27 November 2014

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Happy Thanksgiving!

polar soils blog [22:26:00]

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I am at a British research station, so Thanksgiving is not a celebrated holiday. I hope you had a wonderful time with family and/or friends. Here’s what I was greeted with this fine Thanksgiving morning: A gale blowing snow around in 30-40 knot winds!The bad news is that it was a very unpleasant day for walking between my dorm, the cafeteria, and the lab. The good news is that it hopefully pushed out that sea ice that was blocking our way to the islands, so once the weather clears, we should [...]

Naturstein-Imitat: Niemals!

Natursteine-Blog [17:15:59]

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Ernüchternde Einblicke von der Keramikfliesen-Messe Cersaie 2014 in Bologna Taugen Naturstein-Imitate etwas? Die Kunstfliesen-Messe Cersaie 2014 in Bologna hat’s gezeigt: Naturstein- und Holz-Imitate sind auch bei Kunstfliesen absolut im Trend. ... mehr

The Next Ice Age - Part 1

Ontario-geofish [17:02:00]

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Now that nobody is mentioning that Global Warming thing, I am worried that someone will start the anxiety all over again by 'predicting' a coming Ice Age. They will make a killing buying up futures in [...]

Site Selection for Mine GeoWaste Facilities

I think mining [06:43:35]

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Decision making in engineering demands a logical process that is well documented. Particularly if you are selecting a new site for a mine waste disposal facility. In 1983, Andy Robertson and I wrote a paper [...]

Leptestia sp. brachiopod & Hemicosmites sp. cystoid from St. Petersburg

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]

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Ordovician; RU,US

I'm always on the lookout for new brachiopods for my collection and this Strophomenid type caught my eye when posted on E-bay. It's from the Ordovician aged rocks near St. Petersburg in Russia. The seller had [...]

Vintage Dinosaur Art: WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [22:00:00]

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Jurassic; GB

With 1980s-style dinosaurs once again grabbing everyone's attention, thanks to the recent trailer for the long-delayed instalment of a certain cinematic franchise, it's only fitting that my latest book is a [...]

Costco Bad Meat

Ontario-geofish [23:22:00]

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Last week I bought a case of lamb rack from Costco. We've done this before, we freeze it and it lasts 6 months. It was great for the summer. Nothing better for the bbq. This case had some spilled blood [...]

OpenTopography rides along on Airborne lidar survey with NCALM

OpenTopography Blog [05:40:00]

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Ordovician; BR,US,CA

Recently, an OpenTopography team member had an opportunity to assist NCALM with their Seed grants campaign in October 2014. She was awarded a NCALM student Seed grant in winter 2014 and the data collection [...]

Open-access megajournals reduce the peer-review burden

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [17:54:03]

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Despite the flagrant trolling of its title, Nature‘s recent opinion-piece Open access is tiring out peer reviewers is mostly pretty good. But the implication that the rise of open-access journals has [...]

Ilústranos... Andrey Atuchin

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [15:08:00]

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Después de un par de paleoilustradores clásicos, volvemos a la actualidad para hablar de un artista emergente, con una carrera relativamente reciente pero ya muy bien consolidada gracias a sus fantásticos [...]

Dinosaur Tournament Part 6

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [21:12:46]

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So today, I decided to make a dinosaur tournament with 16 dinosaurs. I want you to choose who you think will win in a fight out of the dinosaurs below. Dilophosaurus VS Parasaurolophus Ankylosaurus VS [...]

Opening for UA Mineral Museum Collections Manager

Arizona Geology [18:13:00]

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US,UA

The University of Arizona Mineral Museum looking for a full-time, permanent position, collections manager. The mineral museum is located in the Flandreau Science Center [right] on the University of Arizona [...]

Los trogloditas de Chase Michaelis

Koprolitos [09:41:00]

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Chase Michaelis es un joven artista estadounidense que actualmente se encuentra estudiando Ilustración en el Fashion Institute of Technology de New York. Su estilo es desenfadado y recuerda a los dibujos [...]

Social behaviour in the dinosaurs

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [16:23:17]

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So yesterday I looked at the groups of Protoceratops specimens and the inference that at least one population of P. andrewsi tended to form groups throughout ontogeny. I also commented on how this was put in [...]

The Next Ice Age - Part 2

Ontario-geofish [19:12:00]

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Mesozoic

So we got the general picture, that after the Mesozoic, the continents drifted apart and the oceans became more efficient heat pumps. As well, the large carbon-water cycle stopped pumping out. It got [...]

Arizona Petrified Wood Fossil

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]

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Triassic; US

While visiting the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#13056) from Navajo County, Arizona USA. It is petrified wood. This [...]

Appeal filed to lift federal ban on uranium claims, exploration in northern Arizona

Arizona Geology [18:05:00]

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Reuters reports that the National Mining Association and the American Exploration and Mining Association filed an appeal late on Tuesday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, to overturn last month's [...]

Technikabhängige Emissionen bei US-Gas-Förderung

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:32:00]

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Bohrloch ist nicht gleich Bohrloch. Mit mobilem Messgerät haben Wissenschaftler des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (KIT) gasförmige Verbindungen bei der Förderung von Öl und Erdgas in den [...]

Happy Thanksgiving and Safe Travels (with a last look at our newest national park)

Geotripper [06:29:00]

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Here's hoping that you all have a fine Thanksgiving holiday and that your travels are safe and fun. I offer up one of the things that I am truly thankful for: politicians that put aside their differences and [...]

A Thanksgiving Greeting

WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [08:30:02]

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Gambel's Quail (Callipepla

Geologie-Modelle der Superlative

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [08:39:23]

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präsentiert das Geozentrum der BGR & des LBEG: Ausstellung Termin:

December 4th - Ocean Acidification

Geology in the West Country [13:39:00]

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The Geological Record of Ocean AcidificationProfessor Andy Ridgwell, Earth System Modelling, University of BristolThursday December 4th, BRLSI, Bath, 7.30 p.m.The future consequences of 'ocean acidification' [...]

BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: Paris syndrome

James’ Empty Blog [18:57:00]

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So, for two weeks we find ourselves in France. Gif-sur-Yvette on the outskirts of Paris to be precise, the location of the CNRS site where we are staying in the very impressive chateau de ville (preservation [...]

Helium exploration geologist position open in Phoenix

Arizona Geology [17:51:00]

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Exploration for helium in Arizona heated up this year with two wells drilled in the Holbrook area where it was produced for decades. [Right, AZGS map of helium fields in Arizona] One of our correspondents [...]