Posts treating: "Mendoza"
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Welcome to the fourth International Palaeontology Congress! 900 palaeontologists have piled into the land of steak, sun, and malbec in Mendoza, Argentina, for the biggest palaeontology conference that draws from all parts of the field. What I want to do with these posts is just provide snapshot summaries of the talks I’ve been at to
Wishing I could have joined my colleagues this week for the 4th International Paleontology Congress in Mendoza, Argentina. There is a large amount of Triassic research being presented at this meeting.
Here is the link to the abstract
This week’s contribution from the Wooster collections will be short. If all is going well, as this is posted I’m on my way to the Fourth International Palaeontological Congress in Mendoza, Argentina. I hope to have a few posts from that exotic place! The fossil above is the crown of a monobathrid crinoid called Xenocrinus
Auspiciado por la Secretaría de Estado de Cultura, Ministerio de Gobierno, integrantes de Grupo Paleo Contenidos, sitio web dedicado a la divulgación cientifica, visitaron la muestra “Planeta Dinosaurios, la Evolución”,que se presento durante enero y febrero en la ciudad de Mar del Plata, en las salas de exhibiciones del NH Gran Hotel Provincial. Una excelente muestra que recorre el país y aconsejamos visitar….MUY BUENO!!!!Una verdadera aventura interactiva que los chicos jamás [...]
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the Andes Mountains in central Argentina, not very far from Cerro Aconcagua. I went to Mendoza for a conference in 2005 on the tectonics of western North and South America (called the “Backbone of the Americas”) and there was a day field trip up into the mountains. We
This week’s Friday Field Foto is one I snapped as the flight from North America I was on was starting it’s decent into Santiago, Chile. It was about an hour or so after sunrise and when I opened the window shade I saw this:
Cerro Aconcongua (6,962 m/22,841 ft) is in the Andes Mountain between Mendoza,
En un procedimiento de la Aduana en el aeropuerto Mendoza, la AFIP impidió que una turista norteamericana pudiera sacar del país 45 rocas. Se presume que son restos fósiles de La Rioja. La mujer -que no quedó detenida- llevaba entre su equipaje dos bultos que contenían las piedras, con un peso aproximado de 21 kilos. Estaba por abordar un vuelo de la empresa Lan con destino a Santiago de Chile. El hallazgo es investigado por la Justicia Federal mendocina. La AFIP recibió una denuncia [...]