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Thursday, 11 July 2019

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Unknown Fish Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [05:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (588 visits) info
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A while back I was visiting my cousin Kenny and he had this fossil under the microscope. The field of view might be 4mm. It has a blue glossy sheen to it. It appears to be a fragment of a fish fossil. The fossil was found in Indian Springs Formation(?) in Crawford County, Indiana, USA. Date on this piece is Mississippian

Career Spotlight: Core Technician Ionela Samoila 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [10:49:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (471 visits) info
Ionela Samoila Interview   Please describe your job duties while on the JR. What will you be doing on a... Read more

Rumit Bumi Para Raja, di Balik Gempa Laut Maluku 7 Juli 2019 (M7,0) 

Dogeng Geology [15:31:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
Laut Maluku adalah sebentuk perairan yang membentang di sebelah timur pulau Sulawesi bagian utara. Pulau-pulau yang bertebaran di perairan ini membentuk kepulauan yang adalah buminya para raja. Yakni [...]

After a Long Wait, Expedition 383 Drills its First Seafloor Core 

State of the Planet [14:55:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
It took six days to sail to Point Nemo, the most inaccessible point of the ocean on this planet, to drill a sample from the ocean

PLATRYACHELLA: DEVONIAN BRACHIOPOD 

ARCHEA [21:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
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Platryachella sp. / Devonian Brachiopod This fellow is Platyrachella sp. a brachiopod from Middle Devonian deposits of the renamed the Little Cedar Formation, Cedar Valley Group (probably out of the Solon [...]

A submarine slump complex at Sandy Cove, Newfoundland 

Mountain Beltway [13:47:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
Traveling in Newfoundland, Callan visits a seaside outcrop showing a Proterozoic submarine slump complex, overprinted by tectonic cleavage and weathered by the sea. The post A submarine slump complex at Sandy [...]

If Dinosaurs Still Lived 

Koprolitos [09:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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Ya sabéis que somos muy fans de Fake Science y sus coñas científicas, pero hacía tiempo que no los traíamos por aquí. En esta ocasión, especulan con qué pasaría si los dinosaurios viviesen en la [...]

A thunderstorm at the cottage 

Ontario-geofish [18:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
They were very intense in the 70's cycle.  They would scare the heck out of you, and make the electricity box spark.  They could blow lightbulbs that weren't turned on.  Right now, one of these is coming [...]

Stromboli: Lavastrom und rückläufiger Tremor 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [10:23:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
Auf der Vulkaninsel Stromboli gehrt man nach der großen Eruption vom 3. Juli langsam wieder zur Normalität zurück. Der Aufstieg auf den Vulkan ist zwar weiterhin gesperrt, doch Touristen besuchen wieder die [...]

Robin Bell Goes to Washington to Testify About Melting Ice Sheets 

State of the Planet [15:55:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (202 visits) info
At a hearing of the House Science Committee on Thursday, she’ll explain her research and why changing polar ice matters to everyone in America and around the

Tree Corps Visits the Tree Ring Lab 

Wooster Geologists [15:37:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
Tree Corps visits the Wooster Tree Ring Lab. Tree Corps is a program run out of the Holden Arboretum designed to provide training to the arboriculture workforce in the Cleveland Area. It is funded by the [...]

Groundwater Must Be The Focus Of India National Water Policy 

Reporting on a Revolution [09:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
India's Water Management Crisis A piercingly clear essay by Himanshu Thakkar on why India must realign its water resources priorities from big dams and river linking projects to protecting, managing, and [...]

Primeros datos sobre las tortugas basales de Ariño en el XVII Annual Meeting de la EAVP 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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El Grupo de Biología evolutiva de la UNED ha defendido varios trabajos relativos al estudio de tortugas fósiles europeas, africanas y centroamericanas en el recientemente celebrado el XVII Annual Meeting de [...]

Bonus post: Supersaurus before Ultrasaurus! 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [19:57:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
I got a wonderful surprise a couple of nights ago! I found myself wondering where the widely quoted (and ludicrous) mass estimate of 180 tons for Ultrasauros came from, and went googling for it. That took me [...]

Hesperornithoides miessleriis and the evolution of flight. 

Letters from Gondwana [00:00:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
Birds originated from a theropod lineage more than 150 million years ago. Their evolutionary history is one of the most enduring and fascinating debates in paleontology. In recent years, several discovered [...]

Ancient proteins: keys to early human evolution? 

earth-pages - Research News from the Earth Sciences [17:24:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
A jawbone discovered in a Tibetan cave turned out to be that of a Denisovan who had lived and died there about 160,000 years ago (see: Denisovan on top of the world; 6 May, 2019). That discovery owed nothing [...]
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