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Thursday, 24 December 2015

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The Airline Chronicles Briefly Return! Pacific Northwest Sights 

Geotripper [06:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (659 visits) info
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Do you know what I like about flying? I admit that there is much not to like about flying, starting with navigating airports while dragging luggage, standing in security lines, paying $4 for a bottle of water, sitting in airplane seats designed for thin 12-year-olds, and waiting for baggage and rides at crowded airports. On the other hand, when one is at 36,000 feet, at that moment one

Tierra del Fuego to Deception Island Antarctica 

Earthly Musings [01:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (636 visits) info
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 GB,FR,PT,NZ,CL,,AR
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We are underway for the first of two voyages on The World. Beginning in Ushuaia Argentina (the world's southernmost city) we sailed for 38 hours until we spotted land in Antarctica. This was one of the fastest crossings for me ever - The World's twin screws push us through the sea at an amazing 18 knots. The weather was as good as it gets crossing the Drake Passage and about as bad as it gets in the Antarctic summer once we arrived. See the photo's below.Mt. Oliveira and the city of Ushuaia on [...]

Happy Holidays! 

Looking for Detachment [18:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (630 visits) info
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Xmas Eve greetings! Photos are all from Nevada City, CA, although I'm elsewhere at the moment. Above: the Outside Inn. Inside the Mine Shaft. Likewise. Xmas cheer from inside

Podcast Chapter 2: The Theory That Changed Everything 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [21:05:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (328 visits) info
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An episode consisting of three stores: an idea that no one believed, how to start the hole itself, and an expedition of tragedy and discovery. read [...]

Cancer sp. Crab Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (257 visits) info
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 Neogene; IT
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Here is a picture of a Cancer sp. crab fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Pliocene Epoch of the Neogene Period. Image taken in [...]

Long Track Tornado In Mississippi in Late December! 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:19:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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 US
The image above shows intense rotation caused by a violent tornado near Holly Springs in Miss. this afternoon. Check out the YouTube video of this long track tornado below. December tornadoes happen but a long [...]

Door twenty four 

Geological Society of London blog [11:00:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
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With the end of the year almost in sight, we’re rounding off the #geoadvent blog season with a look back at the highlights of our blogging year – featuring mud, salt dough, a last minute Christmas [...]

Recovery! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [00:24:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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Now that the core is flowing, the word “recovery” is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. How was the recovery? Did the recovery improve? Man, the [...]

Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson 

Mountain Beltway [13:22:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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 JP
Because I was impressed with Seveneves, I decided to make my next read another novel by Neal Stephenson.  There are several highly-praised options to choose from, but the one that came to hand first in the [...]

New landslide video: Ayacucho, Peru 

The Landslide Blog [08:23:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (625 visits) info
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 PE
A dramatic landslide captures the moment in which a landslide struck a road in Ayacucho,

Dinosaur scales: some thoughts for artists 

markwitton.com blog [18:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (265 visits) info
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 Cretaceous,Jurassic; DE,US,GB
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Turns out that Triceratops horridus had some of the coolest scales of any dinosaur: huge, interlocking tubercles with low bosses and spikes. No other dinosaur has skin like this - at least, not without [...]

Mogollón navideño 

Koprolitos [17:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (210 visits) info
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Epic Santa por German MoltoComo uno ya no sabe qué decir en estas fechas tan entrañables, hemos decidido hacer una pequeña recopilación de felicitaciones navideñas que nos han gustado este año. Desde un [...]

Frohe Weihnachten - Merry Christmas - Feliz Navidad 

The Lost Geologist [19:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info
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Happy Holidays! Protoreaster lincki! A festively colored tropical Indian Ocean starfish for your winter solstice! 

Echinoblog [15:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
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Image taken by Jan Mees. From the World Registry of Marine Species This week, a photoessay and odd little facts about this very strikingly colored/decorated oreasterid starfish, Protoreaster lincki!  You can [...]

Merry Christmas 2015 

Louisville Area Fossils [16:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
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If you are viewing this blog I wish you a Merry Christmas. I hope 2016 brings you many good fossil finds. This year's design features four fossils. They were all found in Grayson County Kentucky USA. Three [...]
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