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This plant fossil is called Lepidodendron aculeatum Sternberg. It was found in South Wales United Kingdom. The
fossil dates to the upper Carboniferous
Period.
It was on display at the British Natural History Museum in London on August
For a geomorphological study that I am working on I want to produce topographic swath profiles across a mountain range, that is, I want the average elevation along a profile plus the min and max values within a certain distance of said profile. I [...]
A continuous flow of images from the New Zealand earthquake reaches the earthquake geology community, and we’re probably all amazed by the coseismic offsets and other earthquake effects. However, the flow of papers on paleoseismology, [...]
Smelter of the Detroit Copper Mining Co., ca. 1896.
The definitive mining history of Arizona's iconic Morenci mining district by geologist David Briggs is now available online at http://repository.azgs.az.gov/uri_gin/azgs/dlio/1695. This 76-p [...]
A special session on Toppled and Rotated Objects in Recent, Historic, and Prehistoric Earthquakes will be held during the upcoming 2017 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America in Denver, Colorado from 18-20 April 2017. Session [...]
We do not know enough about our planet and the impact of human technology on its basic systems. It is beyond idiotic to think we can grow our population and consumption this much, this quickly, and have no impact. But it is also foolish to overstate [...]
Scientific method requires verified data, and this is part of its genius to discern truth, but I suspect those trained in science, easily forget that this understanding is far less common among the rest of the population. Our educational system [...]
Valkaniotis Sotiris of the University of Thessaloniki has posted a revised map of landslides triggered by the M=7.8 Kaikoura earthquake in New
Earlier this month, the Education Team at the Geological Society attended the launch of Terrific Scientific - a new science initiative from BBC Learning in partnership with the Wellcome Trust. As a partner organisation, the Geological Society has [...]
Los dinosaurios son un tema que ha interesado seriamente a Donald F.Glut (1944) desde los seis o siete añitos. Ha trabajado en exposiciones y dado conferencias sobre los dinosaurios en museos, universidades y otras instituciones de Estados [...]