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Friday, 21 September 2018

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My 25th Pair of Reviews 

ART Evolved: Life's Time Capsule [21:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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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 [...]

South Africa's newest Unesco World Heritage Site 

Geology in the West Country [17:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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 [...]

Botanical Adventures in Yellowstone, 1899 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (225 visits) info
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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 [...]

Preprints – What’s the worst that could happen? 

The Way of the Geophysicist [15:15:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (252 visits) info
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 [...]

Neil Shubin presents “A Revolutionary Look at Evolution” 

DC Geology Events [14:47:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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 [...]

Multiple Data Driven Frames – Data Driven Pages Between two Data Frames – Zooming in Together 

Grindgis [14:16:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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 [...]

Yellowstone: neue geothermische Erscheinungen 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [12:13:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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 [...]

Fidschi: 2 Erdbeben 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [10:49:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
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 [...]

Using Python to calculate northern hemisphere’s surface land coverage 

MyCarta [04:43:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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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

Cholesterol establishes Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals 

Geology in the West Country [16:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
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 [...]

6 Ways America Can Get Back on Track with the UN Sustainable Development Goals 

State of the Planet [15:12:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
And why our lives depend on it; an excerpt from professor Jeffrey Sachs' new book, A New Foreign

Friday fold: quartz veins in metagraywacke of the Mather Gorge Formation 

Mountain Beltway [14:21:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
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 [...]

Un cráneo de tiranosaurio en la mesa de tu despacho 

Koprolitos [13:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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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 [...]

A pit stop geological tour of the West Coast of America! 

Earth & Solar System [12:00:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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 [...]

The enormous mining-induced Naga City landslide in Cebu, the Philippines 

The Landslide Blog [08:19:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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 [...]

Highly Polluted Water From Florence Flowing Into the Atlantic 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:25:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (54 visits) info
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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