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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Sunday, 13 March 2016
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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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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