New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Monday, 27 April 2015
Hotspots; modelling the movement of a plate across the globe
April 27, 2015
National Geothermal Data System AtlasU.S. Geoscience Information Network Graffiti in YouTube Videos Used to Track Cave Water Table HistoryBBC Yellowstone Magma DiscoveryNational Science Foundation Half of US Fracking Service Firms Will DisappearShale Energy Insider Cutting Rubellite (Tourmaline) and Morganite (Beryl) in China Gemological Institute of America Geothermal Climate Control for Frick Park Environmental CenterPittsburgh Post-GazetteSpinosaurus torna in Italia...
Huge magma chamber under Yellowstone
Linux - Debian turnover, a time of great confusion
Every two years, Debian throws us into a great mess. It's good to come out the other side. Namely, I'm talking about the shift of Jessie to stable. I run testing on one machine, and stable on the other. [...]Lamont-Doherty to Manage U.S. Ocean Drilling Program
Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has signed a $35 million, five-year cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to manage scientific support services for U.S. [...]Komponisten liefern Erklärung für Hawaii-Knick
Von Hawaii bis nach Kamtschatka zieht sich eine Kette von größtenteils unter Wasser liegenden, erloschenen Vulkanen durch den Pazifik. Diese Hawaii-Emperor-Kette ist die Spur eines vulkanischen [...]Changes to my geophone network
I have made the following decision on the future of my geophone network that I am currently running in Iceland. Next year (2016) I am going to do the following changes to it. Böðvarshólar geophone station [...]Monday Geology Picture: South African Wind Farm
South Africa is currently facing a significant shortage of electricity. Recently, there have been regular periods of “load shedding” or planned power outages. Basically, there is often not enough [...]Chilesaurus, A Plant-Eating Theropod from Chile
Il terremoto del Nepal del 25 aprile 2015 e la diffusa sismicità nel continente asiatico dovuta all'incunearsi dell'India nell'Eurasia
scienzeedintorni [15:49:00]
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Cenozoic; IT,CN,HK,NP,AT,IN,US,NZ,MX,FR,MM,KM,HU,IR,PK,CH,,SI,DE,BR,SE,AR
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Seattle Streams – Pt. 3
Here’s Part 3, and final part, of my posts about Seattle Streams. Here’s a link to Part 2. Here’s a link to Part 1. Southwest Streams Longfellow – Flows into Elliott Bay from West Seattle [...]Dino Danger
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT) com aulas práticas no Jurássico da Lourinhã
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [12:12:00]
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Nepal earthquake impact – the key questions
The Nepal earthquake impact remains frustratingly unclear because of the difficulties accessing remote areas in the epicentralSmartphones zur Erdbebenvorhersage
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:21:52]
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US
Die Webseite ingenieur.de berichtet von einer Studie des United States
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Controversy about Proposed Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic OCS
Seismic surveys are common in the Gulf of Mexico and around the globe. However, some elected officials, concerned local citizens and national environmental organizations are voicing their opposition to [...]Taking the pulse of a large volcano: Mocho-Choshuenco, Chile
Was Your Record High Temperature A Result of Climate Change? Probably.
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:46:46]
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A paper in Nature Climate Change today is getting international press and for good reason, It contains a rather astounding statistic. Here is a quote from the beginning of the paper with my highlights in [...]
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Imaggeo on Mondays: Finger Rock
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [15:27:43]
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AU,IE,JP,RU,TH,GB
Standing proud amongst the calm waters of Golovnina Bay is ‘The Devil’s Finger’, a sea stack composed of volcanic sediments. Located on the Pacific coast of Kunashir Island -which is controlled by Russia [...]
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Eusuchia basales de Lo Hueco (La Tesis)
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:14:00]
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Nepal Earthquake - Aftershocks Shocking
Things you learn doing outreach
A short, light post this time. I'll be doing an outreach event as a USGS rep in a couple of weeks, and having done the demo once already at AAAS's 2015 Family Science Days, I was thinking about the things I [...]Roadside dinos of Yermo, California
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [07:56:26]
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GB,US
A couple of weekends ago, London and I went camping and stargazing at Afton Canyon, a nice dark spot about 40 miles east of Barstow. On the way home, we took the exit off I-15 at Ghost Town Road, initially [...]
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Taking the pulse of a large volcano: Mocho-Choshuenco, Chile
As the recent eruptions of Calbuco and Villarrica in southern Chile have shown, the long arcs of volcanoes that stretch around the world’s subduction zones have the potential to cause widespread [...]Wie Satellitendaten unseren blauen Planeten erklären
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [13:20:29]
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Das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) organisiert vom
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General Election 2015 – Science & the party manifestos
Geological Society of London blog [15:16:46]
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It’s just under two weeks until the country goes to the ballot box for the General Election 2015 and the science policy community have been busy reading manifestos, collating pledges and grilling [...]
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Taking a 4,000-Meter-Deep Profile of Antarctic Waters
In addition to understanding potential pathways for "warmer" circumpolar deep water to reach the ice shelf, we are also measuring what the structure and properties of the water column are and determining if [...]Icnitas de dinosaurio saurópodo en el Cretácico de Portugal
WeBlog Aragosaurus [15:57:00]
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Cretaceous; PT,,US
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Coming Soon: Chilesaurus!
Iniziavo a temere che questo 2015 sarebbe stato una noia mortale in fatto di nuove forme enigmatiche. Per fortuna, è stato appena pubblicato un succoso nuovo theropode dalla morfologia estremamente aberrante, [...]Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 4/27-5/3
Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! Lecture – 5000 Years Of Egyptian History By Tom [...]Volcán Calbuco: what do we know so far?
Detailed assessments of what happened during the April 22-23 eruption of Calbuco, Chile, are now coming in from the agencies responsible for the scientific monitoring of the eruption (SERNAGEOMIN) and for the [...]Controversy about Proposed Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic OCS
Seismic surveys are common in the Gulf of Mexico and around the globe. However, some elected officials, concerned local citizens and national environmental organizations are voicing their opposition to [...]Volcán Calbuco: what do we know so far?
Detailed assessments of what happened during the April 22-23 eruption of Calbuco, Chile, are now coming in from the agencies responsible for the scientific monitoring of the eruption (SERNAGEOMIN) and for the [...]Top concepts:
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