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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Friday, 21 September 2018
As an Art Evolved member, I post a pair of my reviews here every so often, the 1st being positive & the 2nd being negative. I'd greatly appreciate you reading & voting "Helpful" for said reviews in the bolded links below. Besides wanting to make sure said reviews give a good idea of what to expect, they need all the "Helpful" votes they can get because 1) the 1st is for a great book that deserves more attention, & 2) the 2nd is outnumbered by opposing reviews (which don't give a [...]
Makhonjwa Mountains Declared Unesco World Heritage Site
When I was in South Africa this was known as Barberton Mountain Land - a name somewhat younger than the rocks. Henry and Fred Barber found gold there in 1884. The rocks have been there for about 3.57 billion years.
This web site tells the story of the rocks and the gold mining history of the area. (If you cannot get the site to open with your browser try another one. Chrome and Edge work in Windows, Opera does not.) This is very much a [...]
Professor Aven Nelson, 1899. All photos of Nelson and the Yellowstone expedition are from the Aven Nelson Collection, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
On June 24, 1899, a sentry on [...]
Early career scientists are laying the building blocks of their career. Giving away your best ideas for free and everyone to read can seem risky. Pre-prints, on the surface, may look just like that, but are [...]
Organizer: Coalition for Life Sciences A Revolutionary Look at Evolution October 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Speaker Neil Shubin, PhD University of Chicago RSVP at [...]
Before proceeding to the tutorial, you should know how the data driven pages work and how to activate it? If you are newbie to it, please read my tutorial on Data Driven Pages Locator Map. 1. For this [...]
Der Yellowstone Nationalpark ist bekannt für seine zahlreichen geothermalen Erscheinungen wie Geysire, heiße Quellen und Schlammsprudel. Nun bildeten sich neue hydrothermale Manifestationen im Upper Geyser [...]
Im Südseearchipel Fidschi bebte heute wieder mehrfach die Erde. Am markantesten waren 2 Erdbeben der Magnituden 5,9 und 5,8, die sich in großen Tiefen im Erdmantel ereigneten. Das stärkere Erdbeben [...]
Yesterday during my lunch break I was rather bored; it is unseasonably cold for the fall, even in Calgary, and a bit foggy too. For something to do I browsed
Dickinsonia - What is it? - Its a Very Ancient Animal.
Dickinsonia is a well known Ediacaran fossil. But it was usually described as being "enigmatic" - nobody knew what it was. Was it a lichen, an animal, a [...]
And why our lives depend on it; an excerpt from professor Jeffrey Sachs' new book, A New Foreign
It’s Friday! Here’s a lovely sight, contributed by reader Fred Atwood: Those are quartz veins in one of my favorite local rock units, the Mather Gorge Formation. Fred reports, This is at Madeira School in [...]
Hace poco conocíamos al estudio Regal Robot, creador de una realista pata de dinosaurio para decorar tu casa. En esta ocasión, nos sugieren tunear la mesa de tu despacho o la barra del bar con un cráneo [...]
This summer, Sam, Ben, Brad (Ben’s brother) and I decided to go on a road trip around the West Coast of America after Sam and Ben had finished taking part in the Exploration Science Summer Intern Program at [...]
Naga City landslide: yesterday an enormous mining-induced landslide occurred in Cebu in the Philippines, killing 21 people and leaving 74 missing
The post The enormous mining-induced Naga City landslide in [...]
Take a look at this image from the NASA Aqua satellite. Look closely and you can see what is likely a toxic stew pouring into the coastal waters. Much of this from coal ash storage areas and flooded pig [...]
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