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In 1985 the town of Potosi, Venezuela was flooded to make way for the Uribante Reservoir hydroelectric project. Now the area is suffering from a severe drought and the town has reappeared as reservoir levels
I know that the Hawaii tsunami is now officially old news, but it was an important geological lesson. Why does it take amateur video to adequately explain what was happening? As I watched cable news yesterday, the activity was hidden by screen banners and obscured by blathering newsreaders who didn't have enough knowledge to realize what was happening on the screen in front of them. I've
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Wow! We haven't seen tilted buildings since Niigata, Japan! We don't have any ground motion data yet, but I've been looking at the pictures.PGV- peak ground velocityPGA- peak ground accelerationAn earthquake [...]
The massive M 8.8 earthquake in Chile resulted in a tragic loss of life which, as of 2010-03-01, numbered in the hundreds. We won’t know the full extent of the damage inflicted on Chile or the [...]
Nach dem Spaziergang um den Tüttensee, hat uns die Neugier auch in die Impakt-Ausstellung in Grabenstätt getrieben. Kurz vor dem Ende der Öffnungszeit dort angekommen, ließ uns eine sehr freundliche Dame [...]
E você, já recicla o óleo dos fritos?Por Helena Geraldes (helena.geraldes@publico.pt)Os oleões têm passado os últimos anos meio escondidos. Hoje, as autarquias estão a levá-los para as ruas... e para [...]
Quatro exemplos de Norte a SulEm Oeiras, o contentor que serve para a recolha de óleos alimentares usados foi pensado de raiz. Cada ponto de recolha, em cor de laranja, dispõe de sensores que medem o nível [...]
Note: This is a guest post from Will Dalen Rice, a graduate student in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte. He has the misfortune of taking a couple of courses from Anne this [...]
According to its website, the new David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will open on March 17.
No passado domingo, dia 21.02.2010, decorreu, conforme por nós aqui anunciado, uma actividade para famílias de divulgação da Geologia no Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, intitulada Descobre os [...]
Following the Darwin Year a colloquium lecture by zoologist Prof. Wolfgang Maier from Tübingen dedicated to "Darwin and deep time" discussed Charles Darwin’s role as a geologist who (among [...]
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.”
Displayed below are 24 geology-related photos were added to flickr today.
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for February 28th, 2010:
IRIS Seismic Monitor
Maps of the Chile Earthquake – Map – NYTimes.com
YouTube – Tsunami Hits Hawaii
YouTube – USGS: [...]
'The Joggins Fossil Cliffs of Nova Scotia - Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, Royal Holloway, University of London. 7.30 p.m. 16 Queen Square, BathThe Joggins Fossil Cliffs is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Bay of [...]
An American avocet (Recurvirostra americana), photographed at Antelope Island, Utah.
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A ARENA – Agência Regional de Energia e Ambiente dos Açores implementa, a nível nacional, o projecto GEOFAR – Geothermal Finance and Awareness in European Regions.O projecto promovido pela Comissão [...]
Phreatic Ramblings is around since
Megastrophia concava brachiopod found in the Jeffersonville Limestone of Clark County, Indiana. This brachiopod existed in the Devonian Period.Thanks to Mary Ann for letting me photograph
Tsunamis can travel across the ocean at 1000 km/hr (600 mph), although they are barely felt until the wave amplitude builds up when the wave feels ocean bottom near the coast. But given the 10,000 miles [...]
In keeping with the salty weekend theme I thought we’d do a round of geology at the Devil’s Golf Course. From the floor of Death Valley one can see Telescope Peak rising in the distance, nearly [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology on February 27th, 2010:
Free Technology for Teachers: Record-Setting Earthquakes: Interactive Map
Tsunami.gov Page
Earthquakes for Kids
Earthquake Facts and [...]
With today’s massive earthquake in Chile, and last month’s deadly tremor in Haiti, I have a few questions for your theological pondering:
Are earthquakes part of God’s good creation, or did [...]
Since I can’t think of anything else, the olympics is now a series. Check back next week for the exciting
Lepolt Linkimer at the University of Arizona, posted some of the seismograms from the Chile earthquake recoded at Arizona stations at http://www.geo.arizona.edu/gsat/Chile2010.htm There is also a time-space [...]
Do any of the seismic and/or climactic people know what small-to-moderate tsunamis do to ice sheets? I'm just thinking that the summer melt season is wrapping up, and the West coast of the Antarctic [...]
If you were watching the coverage of today's tsunami in the Pacific Ocean basin, you could be forgiven for thinking that this was what was converging on Waikiki, given the breathless reporting that took place [...]
Workshop de Desenho de Materiais Fósseis Formadora: Guida CasellaSINOPSE A Paleontologia é uma das ciências que mais uso faz da visão e do desenho, que ainda hoje não é substituível pela [...]
Segundo o NEIC/USGS, desta vez foi no norte da Argentina:Earthquake Details Magnitude6.3 Date-TimeSaturday, February 27, 2010 at 15:45:41 UTCSaturday, February 27, 2010 at 12:45:41 PM at epicenter Time [...]
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I heart Etsy Sundays for so many reasons. One is that it gives me an excuse to put down my research paper (on, you guessed it, dinosaurs). Another is that I get to browse Etsy sellers like Kelly Farrell [...]
How's this for rad:Pretty slick, huh? It's a clip from some NOVA Special on PBS. Just a neat video to help you make it through the
An welches Land oder an welche Stadt denkt man zuerst, wenn man das Wort "Wolkenkrazer" hört?Wahrscheinlich an New York, Chicago, Amerika ganz allgemein, Dubai, Hongkong, Tokio oder sogar Frankfurt. Kaum [...]
NOTE: Hat tip to my regular reader Doug for the idea and most of the information I’ve obtained (Dr. Donald Prothero is also deserving of many thanks in this department). For those interested, Doug has [...]
Um dos mais violentos sismos dos últimos cem anos provocou pelo menos 700 mortos no ChileAvisos de tsunami já foram cancelados para todos os
Smog (Bill Callahan) - Rock Bottom RiserI love my motherI love my fatherI love my sisters, too.I bought this guitarTo pledge my loveTo pledge my love to you.I am a rock bottom riserAnd I owe it all to youI am [...]
Muito se fala dos efeitos nefastos causados pela devastação da Amazônia. Contudo, um aspecto que pouco se debate são os ganhos que a floresta preservada pode proporcionar. Estimativas de ONGs, institutos [...]
The Chilean 8.8, three-minute long earthquake disrupts Chile’s copper supplies and this may lead to an increase in the price of copper. A report states:
The quake forced temporary suspension of [...]
Photo of tsunami surge from West Hawaii TodayI have a dream, or more a fantasy, because dreams are more likely to come true. I fantasize about the day that a cable network newsreader (I know they like to call [...]
Two years ago today, I was on my way to work one early and frozen morning, having the usual things in my truck: coffee mug with hot coffee in a nearly worn out turquoise "cool cup;" old bottle found [...]
Die Geonauten waren zwischen dem 19.01.2010 und dem 08.02.2010 am Vulkan Soufrière Hills auf Montserrat unterwegs. Wir bildeten 3 Teams, die jeweils mit einigen Tagen Versatz anreisten. So wurde es uns [...]
Ya están a la venta las entradas para CAMINANDO ENTRE DINOSAURIOS (WALKING WITH DINOSAURS. The Live Experience) en Madrid y Barcelona.
Este espectáculo itinerante recala en España en abril y mayo de 2010, [...]
On the September 2009 GSA field forum in the Owens Valley, the final stop of our first day was to check out the so-called “Crucifix Site,” along Chalk Bluff Road (north of Bishop, California, at [...]
Patrick Tresset and Frederic Fol Leymarie of Goldsmiths in London are taking NPR to a new dimension… ours. Instead of remaining within the confines of a computer / monitor configuration, they literally [...]
Grande giornata al "Dal Lago" ieri!In occasione del centenario del Diplodoco di Bologna, il gestore del blog GoGoDinosaurs! Andrea Pirondini preparò un bellissimo cd documentario sulla storia del sauropode e [...]
28 Fevereiro 2010 - 00h30Tragédia: Autoridades falam de pelo menos 214 mortos mas consideram que o número final não deverá duplicarSismo devastador no Chile causa tsunami no PacíficoA maior parte dos [...]
Ich stelle ein Postulat auf: Aus jedem noch so absurden, aber grammatikalisch korrekt formulierbaren Zusammenhang zwischen realen oder fiktiven Ereignissen, Personen und Fakten lässt sich eine [...]
From Yahoo! News: Senators to NASA chief: Go somewhere specific
President Obama’s budget proposal would axe NASA’s planned trip to the moon. So where should NASA send astronauts? The long-term goal [...]
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Krzyzanowskisaurus
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/article_d4138dc4-60a2-544c-8ba8-45ed550df2c2.html
ASU houses one of world's largest meteorite collectios
http://www.statepress.com/node/10614
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Freeport McMoRan CEO Richard Adkerson says the company will grow internally rather than pay a premium for outside assets. Mineweb.com reports that the company will use its "strong cash position to [...]
Shouldn't joke really, it is probably not a good time to be in Chile, but the tsunami is unlikely to amount to much by the time it gets here in an hour or so (it's raining and cold here, I'm not going to the [...]
This insidious phrase really ought to be banned when people are writing about dinosaurs (though to be fair it seems to be true about pretty much any aspect of science if you just substitute in [...]
1. Há suspeitas fortíssimas de que os socialistas Armando Vara e Paulo Penedos, alvos de escutas da Polícia Judiciária no processo Face Oculta, foram avisados desse facto pelo próprio aparelho [...]
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