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Tuesday, 30 September 2014

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IPC4 Day 1 – Using the past to inform the present 

Green Tea and Velociraptors [2014-09-30 14:53:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info

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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

Triassic Research at the 4th International Paleontology Congress - 2014 

Chinleana [2014-09-30 07:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (697 visits) info

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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

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crinoid calyx from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio 

Wooster Geologists [2014-09-26 07:52:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info

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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

Integrantes de Grupo Paleo visitaron “Planeta Dinosaurios, la Evolución”. 

Grupo Paleo. Blog de Paleontologia. [2011-04-24 14:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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 [...]

Friday Field Foto #113: Roadside attraction in the Andean fold-thrust belt 

Clastic Detritus [2010-06-11 14:00:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (34 visits) info
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

Friday Field Foto #96: A view of Aconcagua from the air 

Clastic Detritus [2009-10-23 13:00:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (37 visits) info
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,

Impiden la salida del país de una carga que contendría fósiles. 

Grupo Paleo. Blog de Paleontologia. [2009-10-03 03:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (32 visits) info
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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 [...]
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