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A new study, accepted for publication in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, indicate that Hawaii's two volcano summits are typically snow-covered at least 20 days each winter, on average, but that the snow cover will nearly [...]
For the first time in a few years, we've been able to hit the Niobrara outcrops in the spring! Holy crap was it cold. The last day out, I don't think it got above 50 degrees, not that the 40mph winds would make it feel any warmer. Perfectly [...]
6 May 2017Dear Supporters and Colleagues: On 5 May, 2017, Gov. Ducey signed the FY 2018 budget bill passed the previous day by the Senate and the House. This bill includes funding of $941,000 for AZGS, so as of 1 July we will once again receive [...]
Today on 6-May-2017 a magnitude 4,4 – 4,5 earthquake hit South Icelandic Seismic Zone (SISZ) at 12:08:58 UTC. This earthquake was felt over a wide area, a magnitude 3,3 earthquake also took place around one minute after the main earthquake. … [...]
The city of Cusco in Perú has been hit by damaging earthquakes several times in its long history. In Inka times a strong earthquake destroyed parts of the city, and the Spanish invaders documented an earthquake that happened in 1650. Three hundred [...]
It’s just a few months after the Kaikoura earthquake and now the first papers have been published already. Today’s paper round-up also includes studies on dating tsunami boulders, turbidite paleoseismology, paleoseismology in the Tien Shan, the [...]
In Batman #1 in the New 52, we see a giant animatronic dinosaur kept in the Batcave as a trophy. The T. rex is a reminder from an early adventure on Dinosaur Island (Batman #35, from June 1946). In that story, Murray Wilson Hart, a wealthy [...]
by Lauren A. Martz Last year I worked from June to December as a GeoCorps™ participant at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico State Office (NMSO). It was a […]
There is water everywhere, but you don’t really notice how close it is. The JR is so big that even the lowest deck seems high above the sea surface. The JR has seven decks, numbered 1 to 7 from [...]
It's getting green outside - what's it mean for the planet? Find out in this blog post contemplating the relationship between spring leaves and atmospheric