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Monday, 08 April 2013
Earth from Orbit in 2012 Best Planet Views
Best Earth Views 2012 HarryCentral Reservoir
Central Reservoir is operated by EBMUD, but it’s much older. It’s the weird-looking steel-covered field north of Sausal Creek. This is a view looking over the reservoir from Ardley Avenue toward the hills. That’s the Altenheim on the left, across I-580, and of course the LDS temple with Redwood Peak behind it. The reservoir wasNASA Selects TESS, a "Follow-on" to Kepler
Thin Ice — the movie
Some of my friends have made a film, Thin Ice, which tells the story of CO2 and climate from the standpoint of the climate scientists who are out there in the trenches trying to figure out what is going on. I [...]
Knete verschlingt Magneten
Hüpfender Kitt schon eine ziemlich coole Sache. Eigentlich eine simple Knetmasse auf Silikonbasis. Aber ganz so simpel eben doch nicht. Man kann damit ziemlich viele faszinierende Dinge machen. Denn die [...]Grijalva’s anti-jobs bills
Southern Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva, friend to the pygmy owl and illegal immigration, who a few years ago encouraged businesses to boycott Arizona, is continuing his anti-mining, anti-jobs, [...]Weekend Adventures
Daily Geology Photos – April 8
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 44 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos [...]A call for increased public engagement in geology higher education (Geology Today)
So, it has finally arrived! My first academic article available for free on my blog. Please click on the link below to access the .pdf version of the article, and please leave any thoughts on the article in [...]Geology Photo of the Week #29
The photo this week is of another self collected beauty. I collected this piece below at the Marmoraton Iron Mine in Marmora, Ontario a few years ago. When I found it none of the garnet crystals you see were [...]Washington DNR Releases Preliminary Report on Whidbey Island Landslide
Onsite Visit Leads To Ledgewood-Bonair Landslide Quick Report OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Natural Resources Division of Geology & Earth Resources has released their quick report on [...]The Aguacaliente Fault, source of the Cartago 1910 destructive earthquake (Costa Rica)
I proudly present here the first publication of my Ph.D. student Jorge Alonso Henar. In this paper we present the results of the paleoseismological and neotectonical research developed in Costa Rica in close [...]Photo finalists! Do you have a favourite?
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The selection committee received close to 200 photos for this year’s EGU Photo Competition, covering fields across the geosciences. The stunning finalist photos are below and they are being exhibited in [...]
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What's Up with Gasoline Prices?
At the end of March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule that requires gasoline to have only 10 parts per million (ppm) of sulfur by 2017. This is a 60 percent cut from the [...]La lámpara coprolítica de James Gurney
Plummeting Gas Share from the Gulf of Mexico
The Energy Information Administration reports on the falling natural gas production rates from the Gulf of Mexico and the plummeting share of United States natural gas being produced in theNight at the Museum: LACM’s Camp Dino
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [07:37:56]
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Last night London and I spent the night in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM), as part of the Camp Dino overnight adventure. So we got lots of time to roam the exhibit halls when they [...]
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Georadar on active (?) faults in Oman
I am currently at GUtech in Oman, a sister university of RWTH Aachen University, for teaching Geophysics and I spend most of the free time in the field with my colleague Gösta Hoffmann. On Friday we went to [...]U.S. copper production at 3-year high; Arizona's Ray mine up 9%
Cretaceous Turritella Fossil
Louisville Area Fossils [01:01:00]
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Cretaceous
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Monday Geology Picture(s): Gold Reef City– Trains
I have a few more pictures to share with you from my September 2012 visit to Gold Reef City, a gold mining themed amusement park in Johannesburg, South Africa. Check out some of my previous “Monday [...]Found in the ground - grouping materials
In Search of… the Sea Snake
In October 1845 Lyell was visiting Boston, when he noted an advertisement proclaiming that a “Dr.” Albert C. Koch would exhibit the 114 foot long skeleton of “that colossal and terrible [...]Theropod Dinosaurs Were Good Swimmers
A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances. Working together with an international research team, U of A graduate [...]Up Goer Five: writing excercises
The Up-Goer Five meme of explaining science in less than 1,000 words received some belated criticism of being a poor exercise in science communication. Yes, just like not every article should be a one-draft [...]Get rid of garlic mustard, now
Looking back at the Upper Mississippi River, moving forward
A student and I are working on finishing a project that has lingered for too many years: a careful analysis of the cumulative effects of river management on islands in the lower part of Pool 6 of the [...]Paranoia Over Google Mapping Tools Persists In Indian Officialdom
sigh... I keep writing about this only partly as comedy.. but mostly in frustration... From an article in the Hindu about the recently held "mapathon"contest organized by Google. As Delhi Police [...]Curiosity continues to rock on Mars
Geological Society of London blog [15:54:09]
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This was originally posted at: http://blogs.egu.eu/palaeoblog/?p=529 NASA might be having a rain-check on its outreach activities, but that’s not why Curiosity has gone silent the last few days. Every [...]
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Nevada's Valley of Fire - A Tortured and Magnificent Desert Landscape
Earthly Musings [15:13:00]
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Cretaceous,Jurassic,Triassic,Carboniferous
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Nice plume
Another scene from the South Page Valley Martinsburg outcrop featured here last week: a slightly mud-bedecked example of plumose structure. This plume occurs within a single graded bed (turbidite) of the [...]Geosciences Information for Teachers Workshops
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The EGU’s Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) programme offers teachers the opportunity to hone their skills in the Earth Sciences. The General Assembly Workshop is one of GIFT’s most [...]
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What's Up with Gasoline Prices?
At the end of March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule that requires gasoline to have only 10 parts per million (ppm) of sulfur by 2017. This is a 60 percent cut from the [...]Una pollopsicofonía filogenética
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]
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Female Geoscience Degree Rates
“AGI’s Geoscience Currents investigates female degree rates in the major fields in the earth sciences – atmospheric science, geography, geoscience/geology, and ocean science.” Quoted [...]Low Arctic Clouds and Ice Sheet Melting
“Clouds over the central Greenland Ice Sheet last July were “just right” for driving surface temperatures there above the melting point, according to a new study by scientists funded by the [...]Energy Consumption Growth in India
India is the fourth-largest energy consumer in the world, has the tenth-largest economy, and the third largest economy when GDP is adjusted for inflation and purchasing power. This inflation-adjusted GDP has [...]Around the web — 4/7/2013 — Archean jellyfish? Homeschool uncritical thinking? An atheist’s journey!
Jellied jellyfish — The cover of the April 2013 Journal of Creation has a picture of a jellyfish, with a caption that states “Fossil Jellyfish from Western Australia: Challenging Geological [...]Top concepts:
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