La prestigiosa revista Journal of Archaeological Science acaba de publicar un interesante trabajo sobre el yacimiento de Bois Roche situado en la Charente, cerca de la ciudad de Cognac, región que se [...]
Fuji-san from Kamakura, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.Japanese people like to photograph Fuji-san looking something like this. The reality is different. -- Posted By jules to jules' pics at [...]
Sunday I was in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, which has halls and halls full of scientific instruments and explanations, some more interesting than others. I liked the historical instruments the most, [...]
Nuestros colegas argentinos han publicado recientemente un artículo sobre rebaquisáuridos, en el que se refieren especialmente a peculiaridades anatómicas de un especímen que estudia nuestro amigo Juje [...]
“Thick ice stranded dozens of ships in the Baltic Sea in late February and early March 2010. By March 5, icebreakers had managed to free the vessels that collectively carried thousands of passengers, the [...]
Today’s deskcrop shares the textural designations hypocrystalline and porphyritic with yesterday’s, but I’ve chosen to identify today’s by another name: vitrophyre. I am much more [...]
One of my flaws as a geologist and rock collector is failing to label and clearly identify all of my samples. Today’s deskcrop is a great example of a rock with a hypocrystalline (partly glass, partly [...]
Khalid Al-Falih, CEO of Saudi Aramco: “I don’t think any of us will see, at any time in our lives, fossil fuels meeting less than 70 percent of total energy
Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and sediments in some parts of the Arctic are starting to vent significant amounts of methane as their temperatures
Researchers at Queen’s University have refined a calibration curve used to date carbon-based materials. The curve, called INTCAL09, extends radiocarbon calibration and improves date determinations in the [...]
The Geological Society of America has announced an exciting July 2010 trip for teachers. Their GeoVentures program will travel to study the geology and plate tectonics of
As the past two posts have attested, we are on the cusp of doing some actual, real-life analysis. If at all possible, I want to run the analyses using freely available, open source software. Fortunately, all [...]
Or better, the bobsled. This figure is from a recent report by the National Federation of Independent Business (via Andrew Sullivan's blog and the Economist).With strong encouragement and financial [...]
This is an ongoing exploration of the "Other California"; the wonderful geological places in our state that are rarely found on a postcard. After some geological distractions (like giant earthquakes [...]
Quoted from http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/seminars/spring10/03_17_10.htmlSDSU - Department of Geological Sciences -Seminar - Stephen SelfSuper-eruptions:Volcanic Activity with a Global Impact Stephen SelfVolcano [...]
Es sabido que los terremotos están causados por los movimientos de las placas tectónicas, responsables a su vez de los cambios en la configuración geográfica y paleogeográfica. Por si existía alguna [...]
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Areas of hypoxia, or low oxygen, have long existed in the deep ocean. These areas — in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans — appear to be spreading, however, covering more km², creeping toward the [...]
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Distracted today w/ getting a Tempest reference into my GSA abstract so I had poach from Crappy Taxidermy, which you should be reading on a [...]
A lot of people do wordless Wednesday. They just post things that are happy.So, because I love dinosaurs so much, and I love you so much (well, I really like you anyway), I made this just for you (and maybe a [...]
President Obama’s decision to cut funding to Yucca Mountain has, for me, been the most disappointing decision he has made so far in his presidency. And yet he has also professed his desire to increase the [...]
Moretrench is pleased to announce that Joseph A. Sopko, Ph.D., P.E., has joined the company as Regional Manager for its Midwest operations. Strategically located just north of Milwaukee in Port Washington, [...]
Polyethylene is used to make items such as plastic bags and other packaging materials. Researchers at MIT have figured out how to transmit heat – in one direction only – through the
That was one of the questions asked of Dr. Michael Blanpied of the USGS Earthquakes Hazard Program in a question and answer session published in the Washington
This field trip visits well exposed, 30-foot-high clean exposures of phyllite (Darrington to some, Mount Josephine to others) of the Easton Metamorphic Suite. The metamorphic rock reveals at least 2 obvious [...]
“Flowing lava can carve or build paths very much like the riverbeds and canyons etched by water, and this probably explains at least one of the meandering channels on the surface of Mars.” Quoted [...]
(this image from Pt. Lobos.com!)So, with all this talk of Invertebrate Blog War, I thought I would veer away from all of that and instead talk about the more positive relationships that are observed between [...]
As a follow-up to our last post on thyreophorans, here are marginocephalians (ceratopsians and pachycephalosaurs) with some of their outgroups. Moving or removing the uncertainly-placed Stenopelix has little [...]
Last week, Ken Samples of Reasons to Believe was a guest on the afternoon radio program Issues Etc., which is hosted by Lutheran pastor Todd Wilken. This series, entitled “Answering Tough Questions About [...]
Time for some more pterosaurs since we’ve been rather short of them on the Musings for a while. It seems pretty well know than the rhamphorhynchoids are blessed with a long tail, but also a vane of soft [...]
U.S. Geological Survey conservation geneticists will showcase their science at the Department of the Interior on March 10 from 10 a.m. to 2
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology on March 9th, 2010:
An Ominous Warning on the Effects of Ocean Acidification by Carl Zimmer: Yale Environment 360
Mineralogy Database
Geography For Kids – By [...]
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