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Monday, 27 July 2015

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Warum dauert die Übertragung der Daten von New Horizons so lange? 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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Pyroklastischer Strom am Sinabung, Indonesien 

Mente et Malleo [22:03:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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 ID
Vom Sinabung in Indonesien hatte ich ja schon einige Beispiele pyroklastischer Ströme vorgestellt. Der Vulkan ist immer noch sehr aktiv, gerade heute ist es allem Anschein nach wieder zu kleineren Strömen gekommen (laut Beschreibung des Videos am 27 Juli 2015 gegen 12:20 lokaler Zeit, an der Ostflanke des Vulkans). Vielleicht mag es manche Leute langweilen, aber ich kann mich an dem Phänomen nicht satt sehen. Vor allem nicht, wenn ich es bequem vom heimischen Rechner aus beobachten kann, [...]

Böden im August - Warum Böden für unsere Gesundheit wichtig sind! 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (187 visits) info
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Struggling U.S. Rare Earth Industry is Vital to a Stable Global Economy 

Mineral Law Blog [21:08:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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Rare earth elements are found in nearly every aspect of our lives. Televisions, smartphones, tablets, computers, stereos, and cars all contain rare earth elements. Our national security also relies on rare [...]

Ankylosaurs Slurped Food With Powerful Tongues 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:07:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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nationalgeographic.com Over eight decades ago, while pondering the heavily-armored dinosaur Scolosaurus, the eccentric paleontologist Franz Nopcsa proposed what is probably one of the oddest ideas in the [...]

The mineral foundations of everyday life 

Earth Learning Idea [20:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info
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The Earthlearningidea 'The mineral foundations of everyday life' involves a matching exercise, where pupils are asked to match photographs of everyday objects with photographs of the minerals from which they [...]

A Fossil Snake With Four Legs 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:32:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
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 DE
nationalgeographic.com Snakes can famously disarticulate their jaws, and open their mouths to extreme widths. David Martill from the University of Portsmouth did his best impression of this trick while [...]

How do you move a 5-ton dinosaur? 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:19:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (634 visits) info
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 US
moabsunnews.com How do you move a 5 ton dinosaur down a hill? That’s the questions facing Utah paleontologists who are trying to bring a large collection of well-preserved fossils found north of Arches [...]

Conglomeratic ne plus ultra 

Mountain Beltway [15:48:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (207 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US
There’s something about conglomerates that just draws me in. Here’s a lovely example — you might even say it’s an exemplar — from Sandy Hollow in Montana: That’s the basal [...]

Ankylosaurs Slurped Food With Powerful Tongues 

Laelaps [15:00:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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Over eight decades ago, while pondering the heavily-armored dinosaur Scolosaurus, the eccentric paleontologist Franz Nopcsa proposed what is

Imaggeo on Mondays: Mountains, rivers and agriculture 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
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 Neogene,Paleogene; DE,IT,MA,CN
This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays image blends a range of geoscience disciplines. The post, by Irenen Mazoff, a researcher at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, explores how the mountains, rivers and [...]

Geocomp to Provide Engineering Services for Fukushima Ice Wall 

GeoPrac.net [10:00:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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 JP,US,GB
After the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, the reactors at TEPCO's nuclear facility began leaking radioactive groundwater. The plan to contain the contamination is to use ground freezing to construct an "ice [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff AG: Weitere Investition in Hammer Metals 

Rohstoff Blog [09:16:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 AU
Zeichnung einer Wandelschuldverschreibung über AUD 650.000/Finanzierung weiterer Explorationsarbeiten in Mount Isa gesichert Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), an

Velociprincess 

Koprolitos [09:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
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 CN
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Laura Cooper es una ilustradora estadounidense afincada en China, responsable del webcomic XP, que actualiza dos veces a la semana desde 2014. No contenta con estas publicaciones periódicas, Cooper ha [...]

July 27, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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 US,RU
Predicting the Shape of River DeltasMIT News The Selenga River Delta of Lake BaikalGeology.com A Challenge to the New York Fracking Ban ?Poughkeepsie Journal Measuring the Height of Mount McKinleyUnited States [...]

How to Be a Computer Generated Mosasaur 

Louisville Area Fossils [06:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info
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In January 2014, I wrote about How To Be A Megalodon Shark which was about a character in a very popular smartphone game Hungry Shark Evolution. In that posting, I was hoping they would create an arthrodire or [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 7/27-8/2 

BEYONDbones [03:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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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!  Rocket Day At The George Observatory!Saturday, August 110:00 [...]

Large Oklahoma earthquake - M4.5 to M5.1 

Ontario-geofish [21:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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Europe reported it as an M5.1, I waited 'forever' for the USGS report.  I thought it was a phantom earthquake, but it probably clipped all their seismometers. Here's the felt area. This gives an [...]

BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: Evaluation of CMIP5 palaeo-simulations to improve climate projections 

James’ Empty Blog [21:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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Zwillingsvulkane mit unterschiedlichen Wurzeln 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
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     Prozesse im Erdinneren stellen die Wissenschaft vor viele Rätsel. Eine der offenen Fragen lautet, warum nahe beieinander liegende Vulkane, die vom selben vulkanischen Hotspot versorgt werden, über [...]

Monday Geology Picture: Cross-Bedding Sandstone Bench, Sydney, Australia 

Georneys [20:20:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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 AU,US
Goodness, I’ve been busy recently! I’m afraid that my blogging has been quite neglected… as it has been for the past few months. However, things have finally calmed down a little now, so [...]

Rohstoffeffizienz lohnt sich! - Deutscher Rohstoffeffizienz-Preis 2015 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
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Mit dem Deutschen Rohstoffeffizienz-Preis zeichnet das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium seit 2011 herausragende Beispiele rohstoff- und materialeffizienter Produkte, Prozesse oder Dienstleistungen sowie [...]

What the World Thinks of Climate Change 

State of the Planet [17:01:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 US
We all know that climate change can generate great debate in the United States. But what about the rest of the

The Modern World Attacks Verbalizers 

Ontario-geofish [15:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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Time for an essay that nobody reads!  This is just for my fun, standing on my soapbox in the park, screaming at everyone. You've met them at work, the type that does everything verbally, yack and yack. [...]

“The importance of resolution” or “Why I want a field emission gun on my SEM” 

Mente et malleo: by thought and hammer [14:48:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
Results from some recent experiments: First look with our regular Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) (not too bad piece of an equipment) – “Hmm… pretty nice” Well, I had a suspicion [...]

Federal Highway Administration Launches New National Tunnel Inspection Program 

GeoPrac.net [10:00:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
New Initiative Modeled After Longstanding Bridge Program WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today published the final rule for national [...]

Selected IFCEE 2015 Articles Free for Limited Time 

GeoPrac.net [10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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 US
The 2015 International Foundation Congress and Equipment Expo was held in San Antonio back in March of this year.  The proceedings from IFCEE 2015 are now available online and for purchase at the ASCE [...]

Deutsche Rohstoff AG: Weitere Investition in Hammer Metals 

Rohstoff Blog [09:16:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (41 visits) info
Zeichnung einer Wandelschuldverschreibung über AUD 650.000/Finanzierung weiterer Explorationsarbeiten in Mount Isa gesichert Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), an

Kozlowskiellina perlamellosa brachiopod from the Kalkberg formation of New York. 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
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 Devonian,Silurian; DE,US
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This next fossil is one that always gives me trouble when naming it. Some refer to it as Kozlowskiellina and some as Delthyris. Both are very similar shells and appear to be valid names. The former seems to be [...]

Europe Doesn’t Just Have Better Roads, Faster Trains, and Nicer Airports. They Have Better Weather Satellites, and More Accurate Weather Models. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:35:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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 JP,NE,
..and don’t get me started about roundabouts either, because that’s a whole other blog post! Seriously though, our once number one position in atmospheric science is long gone, and there are few [...]

What’s Funny About That? Quite a Bit Actually! 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:23:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (707 visits) info
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 What happens when you write a blog that is so full of misinformation, and incorrect assumptions, that someone starts a separate a blog to correct the mistakes? Well, for one thing you get some good laughs, [...]
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