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Sunday, 13 March 2016

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La Caccia al Diavolo 

Storia della Geologia [21:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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 ES,US,CH,IT,BR
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Le rocce e le montagne hanno da sempre plasmato la vita, ma anche la cultura umana. Nel medioevo la caccia a camoscio e stambecco era privilegio dei ricchi e potenti. Lo stambecco era tra le prede più rara, preziosa e ambita - “la più meraviglioso selvaggina nelle montagne alpine” come scriverà  il geografo Franz Nigrinus  nel 1703.  Il camoscio era considerato figlio del diavolo, creato per attirare i cacciatori nelle montagne. Scrive il grande naturalista e alpinista [...]

PALTECHIOCERAS OF WRANGELLIA 

ARCHEA [19:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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 Jurassic; US,CA
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Those working in the Jurassic exposures on Vancouver Island are a determined crew. Most of the sedimentary deposits of the Jurassic are exposed in the hard to reach areas between Nootka Sound and Cape Scott. By the time these ammonites were being buried in sediment, Wrangellia, the predominately volcanic terrane that now forms Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands, had made its way to the northern mid-laditudes. This detail of the Jurassic ammonite, Paltechioceras sp. shot with [...]

HOMAGE TO SPRING 

ARCHEA [19:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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OpendTect Workflows 

Seismos [16:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (224 visits) info
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 US
I've been developing OpendTect workflows to support my graduate student's research and my University of Arkansas course 3D Seismic Exploration. These are posted and maintained on my Grad Student Blog and [...]

The challenges of blogging at sea! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [13:38:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
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 IL
When I lived in Israel at the age of 15, it was before the internet, before cell phones, and in fact there were only two public phone booths available [...]

Vulkanasche und Flugverkehr: Nicht auf Sand bauen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [13:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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     Vulkanasche kann Flugzeugmotoren beschädigen. Doch wie groß ist das Risiko wirklich? LMU-Vulkanologen haben dafür ein empirisches Modell entwickelt, weil Tests mit Sand das Verhalten der Asche [...]

4 small quakes in northwest Arizona last week 

Arizona Geology [04:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (970 visits) info
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There were four earthquakes in northwest Arizona between March 7 and 11, ranging in size from magnitude 1.3 to 1.9. March 7 - M=1.7 March 8  - M=1.3 March 11 - M=1.9 March 11 - M=1.7 This area of the state [...]

Dicoelosia varica brachiopod from the Bois d'Arc formation 

Views of the Mahantango [18:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (291 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
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A highlight of my collecting trip to the Bois d'Arc formation was finding the tiny brachiopod Dicoelosia varica. It is somewhat common in certain horizons of the formation and I probably picked up a dozen or [...]

Pictures From Peru's Sacred Valley 

Earthly Musings [13:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (283 visits) info
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 CA,PE,US,,TH
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I am traveling in Peru and Ecuador with Smithsonian Journey's and here are some photographs from the beginning of the trip in Peru's Sacred Valley - heart of the great Inca Empire.The Urubamba River flows [...]

Fracking – potenzielle Gefahren minimieren 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [13:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info
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 US
In Gebieten, in welchen Fracking betrieben wird, sind bisweilen Verunreinigungen von Wasser aufgetreten. Wissenschaftler des Helmholtz Zentrums München stellen nun in der Zeitschrift Environmental Science [...]

Meeresspiegelanstieg: Zu groß zum Wegpumpen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [13:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
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     Der Anstieg des Meeresspiegels könnte in Zukunft so massiv werden, dass ihn sogar ein noch nie dagewesener technischer Eingriff ins Erdsystem nicht lösen könnte – nämlich Wassermassen auf den [...]
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