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Semenanjung Malaysia mempunyai dua formasi Trias yang utama iaitu Formasi Semantan dan Formasi Kaling (diperkenalkan oleh Jaafar Ahmad, 1976) dan dua biofasies yang utama iaitu biofasies Daonella dan biofasies Myophoria (Kobayashi, 1966). Litologi [...]
“Floods on the Indus River continued to surge downstream into southern Pakistan more than three weeks after the initial floods started. The floods began in late July when unusually intense monsoon rains fell over northern Pakistan. By August [...]
Guest post by Stacey Pasco, Mass Media Program Manager at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
If journalism is changing and traditional media sites are disappearing, is science journalism training still relevant? I’m often [...]
"Perhaps, however, the most important evidence of what was actually going on at Krakatoa during the crisis of the eruption is that derived from witnesses on board ships which sailed between Java and Sumatra while the great outburst was in progress, [...]
The BBC has a news video about scientists who have been studying samples of bacteria that have survived space exposure for a year and a
Terry Ledford found a 310 carat piece of emerald rough in Alexander County, North Carolina that was cut into a spectacular 64-carat gem. Experts believe it is the largest cut emerald ever produced from a North American deposit. (The photo of the gem [...]
An inactive quarry in Woodland Park, NJ is home to a sandstone wall preserving trackways made by dinosaurs in the early Jurassic. Unfortunately, it also overlooks New York City, and as prime real estate, is being developed for a condominium [...]
As I've mentioned, I will be giving a talk here at Denison on the Eyjafjallajökull eruption and how the events unfolded on the internet - specifically, I'm interested in the idea of the general public taking an active role in volcano monitoring. [...]
A front page story in today’s Arizona Daily Star reports that the Oracle Ridge copper mine on Mt. Lemmon, near Summerhaven, might be reopened. The story contains some errors. The Star’s story says, “The mine was producing about 1,000 tons [...]
It’s nice that there is always something new to be learnt: the moon is covered with quite a lot of thrust faults, some of which could be “relatively young” (approx. 800 to 1000 million years). They are probably a result of a slight [...]