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The continued fragmentation of Pangaea across the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous led to large-scale tectonic processes, on both regional and global scale, accompanied by some of the largest volcanic episodes in the history of the Earth, eustatic [...]
Sicuramente sarete a conoscenza dell'ipotesi (artistica? storica? geomitologica?) secondo cui la creatura mitologica del Grifone sarebbe stata ispirata dalla scoperta di scheletri di Protoceratops nelle sabbie della Mongolia. Un' ipotesi [...]
Elaborazione in falsi colori del dettaglio di una delle scansioni tomografiche realizzate al ESRF su MPC D-102/109. Notare la struttura del sedimento.Come fanno i paleontologi a identificare la collocazione stratigrafica (e ricostruire il [...]
If you live in the southeastern United States, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered wild pigs or their damage. They can live along stream beds and dig in fields or along roadsides. In the U.S., wild pigs are an invasive species and don’t [...]
Scientists at the University of Iceland seek to measure the ecological and societal benefits of glacial
La voluminosa aggregazione di edifici in muraticciudine e sassi di epoca romanesca dove vivo (tal voluminosa da recar sillaba del suo nome nelle targhe d'auto di una volta) è mutanda d'oro per la legge di Ohm alla Billistica. Proprio nella via dove [...]
Two and a half years ago, I posted a glorious hemisected hen, taken (with permission) from a poster by Roberts et al. 2016, and supplied by Ray Wilhite, best known in this parish for his work on sauropod appendicular material. At the end of that [...]
At the end of August I was invited to go on a private river trip through Hell's Canyon on the Snake River. This trip had become visible on my radar just a couple of years earlier and so I jumped at the opportunity to something completely different [...]
Meet the Magma Tree
Two correspondents have brought THIS ARTICLE to my attention - many thanks and keep them coming! The article is based on AN ARTICLE (£) in Nature Geoscience. (The pound sign indicates that you need to pay to read it.)
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Some geology and evolution material for your perusal.1) I came across this well crafted documentary by Niles Eldredge and Stefano Dominici on the history of the development of ideas on the birth of species. It is a paleontologist's perspective [...]