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Monday, 09 July 2018

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Tree Report, Road Report 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [22:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (545 visits) info
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Not far from my house, halfway down a dirt road to the Laramie River, a boxelder grows in a nook formed by warehouse walls. This is the tree I'm following this year. I visit it early each month and report on what I find at the monthly virtual gathering of tree-followers, kindly hosted by The Squirrelbasket. Since my visit in June, there's been a lot of plant growth in general. On disturbed soil and old railroad ties along the dirt road, pioneering plants were glowing in the morning [...]

Listen: The sound of electromagnetic energy moving between Saturn, Enceladus 

Geospace [23:14:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (477 visits) info
New research from Cassini’s up-close Grand Finale orbits shows a surprisingly powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its moon Enceladus and its rings. The post Listen: The sound of electromagnetic energy moving between Saturn, Enceladus appeared first on GeoSpace.

10 Years of Blogging 

Louisville Area Fossils [15:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (274 visits) info
I have set this posting for exactly 10 years from the first posting on Blogger at 9:18 AM Eastern time July 9, 2008.  My motivation was to learn more about fossils and the Internet. Since that time I have [...]

Why Hydrogeology Plays Such An Important Role In The Thailand Cave Rescue Operations 

History of geology [20:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info
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Rescue operations to free 12 boys together with their soccer coach from the Tham Luang cave in Thailand are underway but could take days to complete. The geology of the region plays a role in both the [...]

THE SCREAM OF OLD GOD 

episcophagus [22:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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Este relato pone en palabras una pequeña historieta del gran dibujante Max, que leí hace décadas en la vieja revista Rumbo Sur (inencontrable hoy en día, pero La Cúpula la reeditó dentro del álbum El [...]

Cool Stuff To Do This Week At HMNS 

BEYONDbones [23:06:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
Behind The Scenes Tour of Our Cockrell Butterfly Center Plus Greenhouses Go behind the scenes with Museum entomologists and horticulturists who care for the plants and animals in the three-story rainforest [...]

Last boys should be out before the typhoon hits 

Ontario-geofish [23:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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It's really barrelling in there.  I'm glad everything looks

Fagraskógarfjall: a very large landslide in Iceland on Saturday 

The Landslide Blog [08:07:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
On Saturday morning, a very large landslide detached from the Fagraskógarfjall massif in Iceland, travelling about 1.5 km over the valley floor. The landslide has blocked an important salmon river The post [...]

The Post-Pruitt EPA 

State of the Planet [14:29:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
While it is possible to predict the most probable form the post-Pruitt EPA will take, we should strive for something

New Smartphone app - Voyages in Deep Time 

Earth Learning Idea [16:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (223 visits) info
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Voyages in Deep Time is an exciting project which has developed free smartphone apps to encourage people to visit and enjoy learning about their local rocks and landscapes that tell us what our part of the [...]

Franciscan landscaping 

Oakland Geology [19:15:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
This house in Piedmont caught my eye not long ago. Homeowners who live in conspicuous places do their neighborhoods a service by making their properties shine. I appreciated the care the owners of this home [...]

Cosas que huelen a Camptosaurus en el XVI Annual Meeting de la EAVP 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [16:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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Hace unos días se presentaron en el XVI Annual Meeting de la European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologist (EAVP), los restos apendiculares y axiales hallados en tres yacimientos enclavados en la orla [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Namibia's mysterious fairy circles 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [07:30:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
The grassy Namibian desert is pock-marked with millions of circular patches of bare earth just like these shown in the picture between linear dunes. Viewed from a balloon, they make the ground look like a [...]

Sea Level Rise and Coastal Development: Science Speaks Directly to Business 

State of the Planet [22:01:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
Business leaders and climate scientists recently met to discuss how advances in climate science research can be used to reduce investment risk and improve

Fighting Ticks With a Few Taps of the Phone 

State of the Planet [18:34:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
A new smartphone app offers hope of stemming the spread of diseases like Lyme, and providing some peace of mind in the
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