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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Saturday, 20 July 2019
We finally started toward the Canadian Rockies from Whitefish Montana. Note that geologically, the rocks in Glacier National Park, USA are considered part of the Canadian Rockies. The map above shows this. Taken from Handbook of the Canadian Rockies, by Ben Gadd.At the international boundary near Eureka, Montana there are many glacial drumlins. This is the "toe" or downstream end of an elongate drumlin - the head was located across the boundary in Canada.This is the Rocky Mountain Trench, a [...]
Keuppia levante
A wonderful example of Keuppia (Fuchs, Bracchi & Weis, 2009), an extinct genus of octopus that swam our ancient seas 95 million years ago.
Keuppia is in the family Palaeoctopodidae, and one of the earliest representatives of the order Octopoda. These ancient marine beauties are in the class cephalopoda making them relatives of our modern octopus, squid and cuttlefish.
Today (20-Juli-2019) at 14:15 UTC an earthquake with the magnitude of 3,3 took place in Torfajökull volcano. This earthquake took place in south part of the caldera of Torfajökull volcano. This earthquake [...]
Debris Flow Video
I came across this and it was too good to ignore. It seems too chaotic for Switzerland!
You can read more about it HERE.
Happy 50th anniversary, Apollo 11! Look at all the lunar geology the mission kicked off
-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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22nd to 28th July 2019
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT FROM BRISTOL AND WEST COUNTRY GEOLOGY CALENDARS
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Read about a new discovery in Mongolia at Earth-logs Clutch of near-spherical dinosaur eggs from Mongolia: scale bar = 10 cm. (Credit: Kanaka et al. 2019; Fig.
Where was I at 30 seconds past 4:17 PM EDT 50 years ago today? When the Eagle landed on the Moon I was in a car north of Tulsa in Oklahoma with my Great Grandmother. Annie Higgins was an amazing woman who as [...]
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