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Friday, 11 August 2017

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Deutsche Rohstoff: Almonty erhöht Kapital um 5 Millionen USD 

Rohstoff Blog [15:22:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (635 visits) info
CEO Lewis Black einziger Zeichner/Wolfram Preise steigen Mannheim/Toronto. Almonty Industries hat bekanntgegeben, dass es eine Kapitalerhöhung um 5 Mio. USD

“Heartbeats” of an underwater volcano’s eruption imaged by ultrasounds (plus VIDEO) 

AGU Meetings [20:08:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (631 visits) info
Using acoustic footage of a volcanic eruption and images taken by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), scientists have documented an underwater volcano’s eruption off the coast of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary

Early modern humans in Sumatra before the Toba eruption 

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [18:26:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (615 visits) info
In late July 2017 news emerged that modern humans first reached Australia at least 65 thousand years ago. Confirming that the date of departure from Africa to end up in SE Asia and Australasia was [...]

Patagotitan and the problem of body mass estimation 

Letters from Gondwana [01:08:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
Since the discovery of dinosaur remains in the Neuquen basin in 1882, Argentina has gained the title of Land of the Giants. The tittle was reinforced by recent discoveries of more remains of giant titanosaurs [...]

Tree of the Month: the Poison Nut Tree 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [19:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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Poison Nut Tree, Strychnos nux-vomica; artist unknown (BHL on Flickr). It was Dr. William Roxburgh, botanist with the East India Company, who introduced me to the Poison Nut Tree. Actually, it was the [...]

Klyuchevskoy: größere Ascheeruption 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [11:32:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
Der Klyuchevskoy auf Kamtschatka hat heute Nacht eine Serie größerer Eruptionen produziert. Dass geht aus Meldungen des VAAC Tokyos hervor. Es wurde Vulkanasche in fast 8 km Höhe registriert. Allerdings [...]

Unas cuantas ilustraciones dinosaurianas... (XIII) 

Koprolitos [08:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
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"Rex" (Vlad Novikov) Vamos con una nueva ronda de ilustraciones dinosaurianas en las que predominan los terópodos de artistas con muy diferentes estilos y procedencias, pero en la que no faltan los [...]

Planet Labs imagery of landslides triggered by the Jiuzhaigou Earthquake 

The Landslide Blog [02:07:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info
Planet Labs have very kindly made available before and after imagery of the landslides triggered by the Jiuzhaigou earthquake in China on 8th August

Fighting Ivory Trafficking with Forensic Science 

State of the Planet [15:15:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
Last week, just days before Central Park’s big Ivory Crush, a Lamont-Doherty geochemist and his colleague sawed off samples of the confiscated ivory for DNA testing and radiocarbon dating. Their results [...]

Book Review: Dinosaur Empire 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [20:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (43 visits) info
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The gradual shifting of popular visions of prehistoric life has been a theme of this blog almost since the start. Looking at how old, mid-century or earlier ideas stick around longer than scientific [...]

GeoTalk: Meet the EGU’s President, Jonathan Bamber 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (572 visits) info
GeoTalk interviews usually feature the work of early career researchers, but this month we deviate from the standard format to speak to Jonathan Bamber, the EGU’s President. Jonathan has a long-standing [...]

Ocean currents and winds 

Ontario-geofish [15:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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We have established in the boring stories for kids, that the oceans carry heat 4000 times better than air.  Wet air is 10 times greater than dry air. Here is the latest dry air motion, as determined from [...]

Observations, Reanalyses and the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Temperature 

Real Climate [04:11:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
One of the most common questions that arises from analyses of the global surface temperature data sets is why they are almost always plotted as anomalies and not as absolute temperatures. There are two very [...]

CUCHARILLAS DE SANGRE, LA PINÍCULA 

episcophagus [20:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
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A continuación os ofrezco la versión editada de la ida de olla que hemos tenido en tuiter esta mañana Ptraci, Germánico y yo, tras anunciar al mundo mi plan para descubrir porqué desaparecen las [...]

Flying in a Blue Dream 

Geology Joe [01:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
It was like flying in a blue dream. #cyclinglife #strava #maine #ride #ridetothrive #stevevai A post shared by Mr. Fury (@geologyjoe) on Aug 10, 2017 at 3:55pm

Deutsche Rohstoff: Almonty erhöht Kapital um 5 Millionen USD 

Rohstoff Blog [15:22:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (53 visits) info
CEO Lewis Black einziger Zeichner/Wolfram Preise steigen Mannheim/Toronto. Almonty Industries hat bekanntgegeben, dass es eine Kapitalerhöhung um 5 Mio. USD

Friday fold: Eagle Rock 

Mountain Beltway [11:16:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (40 visits) info
For the Friday fold, Callan digs out images of Eagle Rock, Virginia, well aged in his digital archive for a
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