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Tuesday, 09 September 2008

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Summer Winding Down 

Daily Fossil [17:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info

 Cretaceous
This season has been very eventful with great new summer staff, interns both university and highschool, volunteers and visiting palaeontologists. We've had some great finds including "Ianto" a short-necked plesiosaur, "Angus" a great big mosasaur and an amazing "Death Assembledge" with over 180 fossils. There were also some great surface finds we'll be examining from the Millwood Member later this fall.Unfortunately the weather is changing, the leaves are falling and we're slowly running out [...]

Presentación de los hallazgos en el yacimiento Cámbrico de Murero 

el blog de paleoymas.com [16:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
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Leemos en el Periódico de Aragón, que Eladio Liñán, catédratico de paleontología de la Universidad de Zaragoza, presentó algunos de los hallazgos y peculiaridades más interesantes del yacimiento cámbrico de Murero.Este yacimiento está situado en terrenos del cámbrico inferior y medio, es conocido como la Capilla Sixtina de es reconicido a nivel mundial por tres particularidades principales:en él se ha documentado la existencia de más de 70 especies de trilobites (y la cifra podría [...]

V Congreso Internacional de Musealización de Yacimientos Arqueológicos 

el blog de paleoymas.com [16:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
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Al hilo del mensaje anterior hemos recibido un mensaje con información sobre V Congreso Internacional de Musealización de Yacimientos Arqueológicos, que este año se celebra en Cartagena entre los días 24 [...]

From lava to the stars. 

Volcano Summer [10:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
We made a pretty stunning discovery in Halema`uma`u on Friday. Many months after the explosion that first opened the vent, we finally had visual confirmation of a roiling, active lava lake inside. Some of the [...]

50 minerals meme 

The Lost Geologist [00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
Everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwaggon after Chuck from Lab Lemming started the 50 minerals you should have seen meme. Hmm..there is not much else to say but I might add some other minerals in a [...]

From lava to the stars. 

Volcano Summer [00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
We made a pretty stunning discovery in Halema`uma`u on Friday. Many months after the explosion that first opened the vent, we finally had visual confirmation of a roiling, active lava lake inside. Some of the [...]

It's that Field Mapping time of year again 

Christie at the Cape [00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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Hey folks I'm back from Laingsburg again with the 2nd year field trip. Every year it seems to get better and better as the sedimentologist and I iron out the plan and I get to know the field. This year's class [...]

Ye Olde Haeckelian Phylogeny-Brisingids Rule! 

Echinoblog [00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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So, the other day, was looking through one of my favorite older monographs "On Some Remarkable Forms of Animal Life...Researches on the Structure and Affinity of the Genus Brisinga" by George Ossian [...]

Panoràmica des del mirador del dipòsit d’aigua d’Ullastrell -340 msm- (Vallès Occidental) 

Bloc de camp [15:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
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Com arribar-hiUllastrell està situat al quilòmetre 3 de la carretera BV-1203 de Terrassa a Santa Maria de Vilalva. El dipòsit d’aigua està situat al centre del poble, darrera l’església, i tenint de [...]

VICIOUS MEAT-EATING HUNTER TRACKED TO AFRICA 

ARCHEA [05:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info

 Cretaceous
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While evidence of 95-million year old therapods from Africa is quite scare making one think that each fragment would be treated like gold, this was not the case the first evidence of Carcharodontosaurus [...]

A word about ecotones in the Klein Karoo 

Christie at the Cape [00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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OK I have never pretended to be a biologist in spite of a growing fixation on succulents, but there are a few concepts from biology that just seem REALLY IMPORTANT and stuck with me somehow. The first is the [...]

geoblogosphere survey 

Geology Happens [00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
I just saw that NOVA Geoblog is taking a survey concerning who we are and what we are doing. The incredible growth of geology blogs in the past year has been mind boggling or is it mind blogging?? I started [...]

The lizard biters 

Dracovenator [00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info

 Cretaceous,Triassic
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The answer to the puzzle is that both were named Saurodectes, meaning ‘lizard biter’. One is an insect from the Early Cretaceous of Siberia, while the other is an early Triassic procolophonoid parareptile [...]
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