Geobulletin alpha
News from the Geoblogosphere
New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Saturday, 23 May 2020
It seems like entire libraries have been written about the Mount St. Helens eruption. Here are four books well worth reading.
-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Edenville Dam Breach
One of my favourite blogs (The Landslide Blog) has 3 very interesting articles about the the breaching of this dam in Michigan USA.
The FIRST gives the news and the information that its licence had been withdrawn.
The SECOND has a video showing the failure of the dam. It is this which drew my attention.
And the THIRD discusses what happened and the consequences. The author suggest many similar dams will need to be looked at as global warming is changing weather [...]
2020-05-23
US estimated C19 deaths
110289 +/- 7785 = Jun 1 total (95% confidence)
133068 +/- 7785 = Jul 1
145087 +/- 7785 = Aug 1
151390 +/- 7785 = Sep 1
2020-05-23
World [...]
Der chilenische Vulkan Nevados de Chillan war in den letzten 2 Stunden besonders aktiv und produzierte eine Eruptionsserie. Das VAAC registrierte 4 Aschewolken. Sie transportierten Vulkanasche bis auf einer [...]
I'd always grouped the dugongs and manatees together. There are slight differences between these two groups. Both groups belong to the order Sirenia.
They shared a cousin in the Steller's sea cow, [...]
Credit: anonymous tattoo, Grant Harding for the caption. Update. Here is the Instagram post that Grant got this from. Unfortunately it seems to be from an account that specialises in reposting others’ work [...]
In un nuovo studio, di cui sono co-autore, Wang et al. (2020) descrivono un nuovo aviale dal Cretacico Inferiore della Cina, ed istituiscono Kompsornis longicaudus (nome traducibile con "l'elegante uccello [...]
Ads: