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Saturday, 15 February 2025

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Let a thousand mushrooms grow

Ontario-geofish [21:51:00]

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 Carbon warming has died.  Noaa and Nasa don't have the money to keep it going.  However, it did not die with enough bru-haha to bring back physics.  All the rats just scurried away to their holes.  In its place we will have a thousand new influencer ideas that have no physics.  You can't have long power lines over granite.  All the power leaches away

Seismic Secrets Locked in Quartz Grains – A New Approach to Earthquake Studies

paleoseismicity.org [17:40:09]

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This is a guest post by Szymon Świątek Can we “read” earthquake history by analyzing microscopic quartz grains? New research suggests we can! Scientists from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the University of Potsdam have introduced an innovative method for studying seismic liquefaction. Their findings, published in the Journal of Structural Geology, reveal that quartz microstructures can help identify past earthquakes. Seismic liquefaction occurs when water-saturated sediments [...]

Does the Inner Core Change Shape?

Geology in the West Country [15:29:00]

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Does the Inner Core Change Shape? And if it does, how do we tell and does it matter? The Inner Core is solid, the Outer core is liquid. Both are thought to be largely iron. The Core is responsible for the [...]

Into a moderate recharge, snow the same as last time

Ontario-geofish [12:11:00]

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 The Arctic flows have weakened, allowing a nice warm spell to hit us.  Lots of snow.  Not much black, no white.  I'm just looking selectively, to get the warmies [...]

SPIRRALING BEAUTY: TURRITELLA

ARCHEA [01:57:00]

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Gastropods, or univalves, are the largest and most successful class of molluscs. They started as exclusively marine but have adapted well and now their rank spends more time in freshwater than in salty marine [...]

Jurassic Coast Trust to Close

Geology in the West Country [13:41:00]

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Jurassic Coast Trust to Close A correspondent alerted me to this. Details can be found on THIS BBC WEBPAGE. At least the Jurassic Coast is still open. But it is very sad.

Jurassic Park Reboot - I protagonisti

Theropoda [07:50:00]

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 Uno degli elementi vincenti del primo Jurassic Park, sia nella versione letteraria che cinematografica, è l'assortimento di personaggi umani coinvolti. Alcuni tipi umani inclusi nella versione [...]

If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [00:25:35]

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Here’s a Mastodon thread from a year ago. Just a quick check on how ChatGPT’s getting on … Me: Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when? ChatGPT: The species [...]