The latest storm to pass through Central California dropped 1.28 inches of rain in my backyard gauge, giving us 4.26 inches for the month of March, and about a third of a normal year's precipitation in the space of just ten days or so. By the time this last storm arrived, the watershed was saturated, and so Dry Creek...was not dry. It reached a peak flow of about 3,000 cubic feet per
Videos über diverse Erdrutsche und Bergstürze habe ich hier ja schon ein paar mal eingestellt. Ich bin der Meinung, dass gerade diese bewegten Bilder uns sehr viel über diese doch sehr rasch ablaufende Geologie erzählen können. Und das auch noch vergleichsweise gefahrlos. Denn Erdrutsche sind oftmals in ihren Abmessungen und ihrem zeitlichen Ablauf her nur sehr schwer einzuschätzen. Lange Minuten der Langeweile können sehr rasch in kurze Momente des Terrors übergehen, wenn einem klar [...]
The Kelimutu crater lakes are a mystery all their own. Sitting at the top of the Kelimutu volcano in Indonesia, each of the three water bodies is a different color.[...]
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UPDATE 26 April 2016: On Friday 22 April during the European Geosciences Union 2016 General Assembly in Vienna, a Great Debate was held. The question “Plate tectonics started in the Paleo-Archean or [...]
The Brown's Folly website has been updated with some new photos.Net-like colonial coral from the patch reef at Site 8Brachiopod inside boring into the coral, Site 8Parts of Apiocrinus, a crinoid from the [...]
We're still on the road in Death Valley and have stopped between the turnoff to Natural Bridge and the southern entrance to the one-way Artist's Drive to look northeastward toward the Black Mountains.
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First, the bad news: a study out yesterday says that the lives of up to 13 million people in the United States may be disrupted by sea-level rise in the next century–more than three times most previous [...]
We traveled to Cape Evensen, which is an extra site that we added to our trip. Because we were so far ahead of schedule, we got permission to go even farther south to sample in a small gap in our overall [...]
Forests in the south-central United States are some of the country’s most productive and diverse. They also sit in a warming “hole”—an area where the progressive rise in temperature affecting most of [...]
One foggy spring morning just after a hard rain, Park Williams was tromping through the woods deep in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains. Toiling down a steep slope, he supposedly was keeping a simultaneous eye out [...]
Dr. Ellen Stofan is a planetary scientist, STEM advocate and Chief Scientist at NASA. Her research interests include the geology of Venus, Mars, Titan and Earth and she's been involved in several planetary [...]
A significant coastal cliff collapse event in Bonne Nuit in Jersey this weekend, triggered by storms, has threatened a new care
This weeks photo is a beautiful yet sad reminder that Arctic research and work is still a dangerous undertaking just as it was for the early Arctic explorers. The following text is by Vladislav...
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Al igual que sucedió en su día con "Jurassic Park", el éxito de "Jurassic World" ha favorecido la proliferación de subproductos con bichos prehistóricos persiguiendo gente. Es el caso de "Terrordactyl", [...]
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This post shouldn’t need to be written, but apparently it does. In recent discussions of Sci-Hub, I still keep seeing people trot out idiot analogies where copying scientific papers is portrayed as the [...]
Neue Bohrungen für das zweite Quartal geplant Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), an der die Deutsche Rohstoff zu
So you've completed your field and laboratory geotechnical site characterization...now what? You write the report of course. This is the final video in a nice sequence of videos prepared by Terracon. Did [...]
by Bob Stern (University of Texas at Dallas) Busy person’s summary: This is a long blog (~5000 words). If you are too busy to read all of it, here’s the story in a nutshell: there will be a meeting [...]
When you plan a research cruise in the winter in Oregon, there’s a good chance the weather will change your plans. That’s what happened to us this
...In our legends it is said that the goddess Ganga's descent from the heavens would have split the earth had Lord Shiva not tamed here torrent by tying it into his ash-smeared locks. To hear this story is to [...]
Guest post from Bill Ruddiman, University of Virginia For over a decade, paleoclimate scientists have argued whether the warmth of the last several thousand years was natural or anthropogenic. This brief [...]
Nos ha llegado información para una tesis en Francia. Os la adjuntamos- financement de thèse « LA FALÉMÉ AU COURS DE QUATERNAIRE RÉCENT.ANALYSE GÉOARCHÉOLOGIQUE D’UN ESPACE SOUDANIEN RICHE EN [...]
For the third year in a row we’re running the EGU Communicate Your Science Video Competition – the aim being for early career scientists to communicate their research in a short, sweet and public-friendly [...]
A lawn can be a source of pride in the United States. A modest level of “husbandry,” or stewardship, can transform our “personal grassland” into the beautiful verdant sod we
the time of the last drop, FOP 2016 It has been a record breaking, warm winter on planet Earth, and New York has been no exception. After many recent warm days, it’s hard to believe that Sunday, March [...]
Washington, D.C. – Members from the Geological Society of America’s Geology and Public Policy Committee gathered on Capitol Hill to emphasize the importance of federally funding geoscience research to [...]
Join Callan for a virtual field trip, as he shares dozens of photos from a recent 'field review' of a new geological map in Virginia's Valley & Ridge province. Highlights: graptolites, trace fossils, [...]
Between 1894 and 1944, Maud and Arthur Smith Woodward welcomed countless eminent scientists into their homes in Kensington and Haywards Heath, Sussex. Arthur’s position as curator of the Geology [...]
Brusatte et al. (2016) descrivono un neurocranio di theropode dal Cenomaniano-Turoniano dell'Uzbekistan caratterizzato da una unica ed inusuale combinazione di caratteri, ed istituiscono Timurlengia euotica. [...]
No lo tiene todo, pero casi. Con esta frase se podría resumir el nuevo ejemplar del ceratopsio Chasmosaurus belli presentado y descrito recientemente en la revista científica Journal of Vertebrate [...]
Neue Bohrungen für das zweite Quartal geplant Heidelberg. Die australische Hammer Metals Limited („HMX“), an der die Deutsche Rohstoff zu
The Bertha tunnel boring machine has resumed chewing away beneath Seattle after a 'suspension for cause' order from WSDOT shut it down in January following two safety incidents. The BTM began tunneling with [...]