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Wednesday, 15 June 2016

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New study questions source of rare Earth metals that provide clues to life’s origins 

AGU Meetings [2016-06-15 17:46:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
A new study is reviving a decades-old debate about how Earth’s rarest elements came to exist on our planet – theories that have implications for the origin of

Gods & Cephalopods 

Fossil Huntress [2016-03-30 22:47:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info

 Cretaceous; EG
A great temple to the god Amon was built at Karnak in Upper Egypt around c. 1785. It is from Amon that we get his cephalopod namesake, the ammonites and also the name origin for the compound ammonia or NH3.Ammonites were a group of hugely successful aquatic molluscs that looked like the still extant Nautilus, a coiled shellfish that lives off the southern coast of Asia.While the Nautilus lived on, ammonites graced our waters from around 400 million years ago until the end of the Cretaceous, 65 [...]

Moon's tilt and origin of water on Earth 

Geology in the West Country [2016-03-28 16:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info
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Dramatic change in the moon’s tilt may help us trace the origin of water on Earth Read

Born This Day: Theodosius Dobzhansky 

Palaeoblog [2016-01-25 13:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
Dobzhansky (Jan.25, 1900–Dec. 18, 1975) is noted for being one of the architects of the modern Synthetic Theory of evolution. During the first 20 years of the 20th century, Darwin's theory of natural selection had fallen out of favor among scientists. Many thought it insufficient to explain the origin of adaptations, while new discoveries of gene mutations seemed to them to be incompatible

Eotrachodon orientalis, A New Hadrosaurid from Appalachia 

Palaeoblog [2016-01-22 19:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info

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A primitive hadrosaurid from southeastern North America and the origin and early evolution of 'duck-billed' dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 2016. This new discovery shows that duck-billed dinosaurs originated in the eastern United States, what was then broadly referred to as Appalachia, before dispersing to other parts of the world.

Born This Day Alfred Russel Wallace 

Palaeoblog [2016-01-08 16:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info

 AU,GB
Wallace (Jan. 8, 1823 – Nov. 7, 1913) was a British naturalist and biogeographer. He was the first westerner to describe some of the most interesting natural habitats in the tropics. He is best known for devising a theory of the origin of species through natural selection made independently of Darwin. Between 1854 and 1862, Wallace assembled evidence of natural selection in the Malay

Died This Day: Theodosius Dobzhansky 

Palaeoblog [2015-12-18 12:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
Dobzhansky (Jan.25, 1900–Dec. 18, 1975) is noted for being one of the architects of the modern Synthetic Theory of evolution. During the first 20 years of the 20th century, Darwin's theory of natural selection had fallen out of favor among scientists. Many thought it insufficient to explain the origin of adaptations, while new discoveries of gene mutations seemed to them to be incompatible

Imaggeo on Mondays: Giants Causeway 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2015-11-30 13:00:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info

 GB,US,CN,IE
Since its discovery back in the late 1600s the origin of the spectacular polygonal columns of the Giants Causeway, located on a headland along the northern coast of Ireland, has been heavily debated. Early theories for its origin ranged from being sculpted by men with picks and chisels, to the action of giants, through to the force of nature. It wasn’t until 1771 that Demarest, a Frenchman, suggested that the origin of the world-famous headland was indeed volcanic. “The myth goes that the [...]

Died This Day: Alfred Russel Wallace 

Palaeoblog [2015-11-07 13:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info

 AU,GB
Wallace (Jan. 8, 1823 – Nov. 7, 1913) was a British naturalist and biogeographer. He was the first westerner to describe some of the most interesting natural habitats in the tropics. He is best known for devising a theory of the origin of species through natural selection made independently of Darwin. Between 1854 and 1862, Wallace assembled evidence of natural selection in the Malay

A Series of Fortunate Events: Climbing a Dome That's Not Exactly a Dome...It's Rock Mutton 

Geotripper [2015-10-30 05:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info

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There are domes and there are "domes". Yosemite National Park has a lot of domes of one sort or another, and there has always been a bit of confusion about their origin. From various points in Yosemite Valley, one can spy at least four them, famous Half Dome, less famous Sentinel Dome, North Dome, and Basket Dome. Although Yosemite is famous as a work of glacial action, the domes actually

BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: TANSTAAFL 

James’ Empty Blog [2015-09-25 04:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info

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Otherwise known as, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. At least, there isn't any longer in the Climate Division at NCAR.   It feels like a long time ago that we last dropped in to give seminars at NCAR. Well, perhaps that's not so surprising as it was during our previous careers :-) The origin of our current trip was actually jules being invited to NY for a workshop on monsoons

Asteroids have “fractured and pulverized” the moon’s subsurface 

AGU Meetings [2015-09-10 19:19:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
Large asteroids that crash into the moon cause fractures to the lunar crust that extend up to 25 kilometers (16 miles) below the moon’s surface, finds a new study. These cracks could contain a record of asteroid impacts that bombarded the inner planets billions of years ago, possibly shedding new light on the formation of our solar system and the origin of life on Earth, according to

Strange Skies over the Great Valley Today 

Geotripper [2015-07-23 09:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (208 visits) info

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Tell me this isn't one of the stranger looking skies you've ever seen. I would have been rather freaked seeing this without having known the origin. It's not clouds. We were driving home after our latest journey, and could see a wildfire burning on the west side of the Great Valley north of Sacramento. We couldn't get details until we got home, but it turns out to be burning in the

Odds and Ends 

Earthly Musings [2015-07-12 18:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (323 visits) info

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Houston, We Have Geology!Occasionally, I post various items that are not exotic or from faraway places. I'll be leaving for Alaska soon to run a wilderness river (the Tatshenshini) and so look for a post from that trip soon. In the meantime, here are a few odds and endsI just loved the above-the-fold headline in this mornings Arizona Daily Sun! Geology plays a prominent role in the upcoming New Horizons mission to Pluto. As you can imagine, Flagstaff has more than a passing [...]

Status of Oil and Gas-related Bills Proposed in California’s 2015-2016 Legislative Session 

Mineral Law Blog [2015-06-09 20:55:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
June 5, 2015 marked the deadline for lawmakers to pass bills out of their house to the opposite house. Bills that did not pass in their house of origin by that date have effectively died (unless such bill has been identified as a 2-year bill). Below is the status and summary of the oil and … Continue

New Evidence For The Oldest Land Vertebrate 

Palaeoblog [2015-06-06 15:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info

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The study Oldest Pathology in a Tetrapod Bone Illuminates the Origin of Terrestrial Vertebrates. 2015. Plos One A 333-million year old broken bone is causing fossil scientists to reconsider the evolution of land-dwelling vertebrate animals. Analysis of a fractured and partially healed radius (front-leg bone) from Ossinodus pueri, a large, primitive, four-legged (tetrapod),

Tis-sa-ack (Half Dome) From Some Different Angles 

Geotripper [2015-05-16 05:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (212 visits) info

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Tis-sa-ack (Half Dome) from Glacier Point. For the origin of the name Tis-sa-ack, check my post at http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2014/11/if-these-cliffs-could-talk-tis-sa-ack.html Tis-sa-ack is, along with Yosemite Falls and El Capitan, Yosemite Valley. The iconic rock stands high above the east end of the valley, rising to 8,839 feet (2,694 meters), just short of a vertical mile above

New Dino-Birds: How the Beak Evolved 

Palaeoblog [2015-05-14 18:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info

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A molecular mechanism for the origin of a key evolutionary innovation, the bird beak and palate, revealed by an integrative approach to major transitions in vertebrate history. 2015. Bhullar, B-A. S., et al. Evolution Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks. PR Abstract: The avian beak is a key

The origin of a second wave of supreme-swimming crocodiles 

Green Tea and Velociraptors [2015-01-05 15:18:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info

 Cretaceous; GB,AU
Millions of years ago, crocodiles were far more diverse (and weird) than the ones we still have around today. They ranged from armoured, tank-like forms living on land and feeding on plants, to 9 metre long fully-fledged swimmers out in the open oceans. In the Jurassic period, most of the crocs we know of were of this second kind, the whole marine forms. These comprised a group known as thalattosuchians, and they had long snouts for snapping up fish, salt glands, and even flipper-like arms and [...]

Make your own soil 

Earth Learning Idea [2014-12-29 17:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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Investigate the type and origin of the ingredients of soil with this Earthlearningidea, 'Make your own soil'. Using a little water, pupils mix together the organic and inorganic components of a typical soil. What is missing? This activity can be used in any lesson about the environment, rocks and landscape, agriculture, gardening or investigations out of doors. More soil activities can
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