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A radar map of ice deposits in one
Flash Wedge!
How quickly can an Accretionary Wedge be accreted? We’re about to find out…
In the spirit of experimenting, let’s try this: find an engaging geoscience link you’ve come across in the last day or two that you want to share with the geobloggosphere. You may, but don’t need to, write anything. It might be
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Extreme Science: Understanding our Earth by Marcia McNutt (Director of the USGS): 7pm March 3, Reston VA
Alfred Slavík, 1891. Die Schichten des hercynischen Procaen- oder Kreidegebietes, ihre Deutung und Vergleichung mit anderen Kreidegebieten. Sitzungsberichte der königlich-böhmischen [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology on March 2nd, 2010:
Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth
Earthquakes for Kids
Richter Magnitude
San Andreas Fault Field Guide
NOAA / PMEL Pacific [...]
Brian Shiro is a geophysicist who has been working at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) for over four years. On a normal work day, his tasks go from checking that the warning system works to [...]
Look at that! Right near the bullseye of the big one! Is this place dead? Never going to put out another gob-splitter?
A couple of weeks ago while in Orlando, Florida, my family and I paid a visit to Disney World. Not surprisingly, the nagging trepidations I felt leading up to the big day were far outweighed by the [...]
Esempio di argumentazione creazionista: censurare i fatti. È una incredibile ironia che i metodi stessi del Creazionismo e Intelligent Design sono gli esempi piú evidenti della sua falsitá - sia scientifica [...]
Friday night found us trapped on Donner Pass in the middle of a blizzard, hoping our reserves of cold tortillas and dried mangoes would sustain us long enough to avoid resorting to the grisly survival tactics [...]
A tip of the fedora to the late, great Willis O'Brien who breathed life into the fur and armature that become King Kong, the Seventh Wonder of the World!His biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie [...]
A young Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), photographed at the Central Park Zoo.
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I have not fallen off the face of the Earth, but my motivation to blog has not been pushed for a while now. I have always known that I enjoy reading a whole lot more than writing, so I am not surprised at my [...]
Predation upon Hatchling Dinosaurs by a New Snake from the Late Cretaceous of India. 2010. J. Wilson, et al. PLoS BiologyThe snake Sanajeh indicus, n. gen. n. sp., in association with a partial clutch of three [...]
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.”
Displayed below are 100 geology-related photos were added to flickr today.
Today’s guest blogger is Neal Immega. He has a Ph.D. in Paleontology and is a Master Docent here at HMNS. In his post below – originally printed in the Museum’s volunteer newsletter – [...]
ArticleWow, they got all the big brains of seismic making the usual rounds of "What about me? - California". It's very interesting, but I'm not reading it all, since it's the same-old I've read [...]
(Probably a fan wank of a picture rather than a real concept) Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia will build a new strategic bomber, a move that comes as the nation tries to upgrade its aging [...]
We are currently developing a Firefox plugin which shows 3D objects in a web. It uses OpenSceneGraph to set up the render canvas. Moreover the plugin also features scripting capacities based on NPAPI [...]
Some news for a busy Tuesday:
The crater at Poas volcano in Costa Rica, taken February 25, 2010. Image courtesy of OVSICORI by Federico Chavarria.
After the MSNBC debacle, it is nice to see some good [...]
Hace rato que no actualizaba este blog, pero sin lugar a dudas, el terremoto recién pasado en Chile hace necesario esto, ya que hay varios temas dando vuelta en internet, que han adquirido el nivel de mitos [...]
Article"The prediction is Ohio could have a 7.2," he said, referring to the potential magnitude on the Richter scale. "If we had a magnitude 7, that would be devastating."Ah, Come on!! [...]
Fissurómetros avaliam integridade física das cavidades vulcânicasInstalar fissurómetros para avaliar a integridade física das cavidades vulcânicas abertas ao público é um dos principais objectivos da [...]
Yet more crazy YouTube videos of weird, geologically relevant stuff! This time...it's non-newtonian fluids!Newtonian fluids are the sort of everyday, hum-drum fluids we generally interact with (like coffee, or [...]
Nos ha llegado información de la disponibilidad de la Revista Munibe en versión "online". Os la adjuntamos.Como probablemente todos/as sabéis, la revista MUNIBE Antropologia-Arkeologia que edita la Sociedad [...]
Se va a celebrar en Huelva el XI Congreso Internacional sobre Patrimonio Geológico y Minero. XV Sesión Científica de SEDPGYM. del 22 al 26 de septiembre de 2010, coincidiendo con el 15º [...]
Un nuevo estudio publicado en PNAS, aporta información sobre la aparición del comportamiento moderno en los Homo sapiens. Nuevamente relacionado con el complejo Howiesons Poort, se trata de 270 fragmentos de [...]
Il 2 di marzo del 1933 usci nelle sale cinematografiche il film “King Kong”. Il mondo non sarebbe lo stesso senza l´ottava meraviglia del mondo, portato a New York dalla remota isola del teschio, caduto [...]
Baby dinosaurs, that is.
Based on a fossil from India scientists from Michigan have described a 67 million year old snake preserved curled up in a sauropod nest. The 3.5 meter long serpent, which have been [...]
I am not sure what this fossil is. It was found in Speed Quarry, Clark County, Indiana in Jeffersonville(?) Limestone. It is a Devonian Period fossil. The first picture reminds me of a stone flower with the [...]
El concepto de nicho es un concepto fundamental y básico en ecología y en estudios de evolución, data desde hace un siglo con la primera definición del naturalista Joseph Grinnell [...]
Como já faço desde há três anos, fui, na passada terça-feira, dia 23.02.2010, à Escola de 1º Ciclo da Várzea (que se situa na freguesia leiriense do Arrabal e faz parte do meu Agrupamento de Escolas [...]
The M8.8 earthquake that hit Chile at the weekend has raised the question of whether such large quakes have any effect on activity in nearby volcanoes. In Chile itself, geologists from Chile’s [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for March 2nd, 2010:
Meteorites may be remnants of destroyed dwarf planet – space – 13 March 2008 – New Scientist
Antarctica Yields Relics of a [...]
Apologies for the lack of detailed posts in the last couple of days, but starting tomorrow expect a big flurry with some exciting new research and guest posts coming.
I was just idly wondering how much the [...]
Partha P. Majumder summarizes population level genetic data from south Asian populations in a special issue of Current Biology on Archaeogenetics, the attempted synthesis of archaeology and genetics. The paper [...]
Pemilik blog ini mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepada kakitangan JMG Pahang terutamanya kepada En. Junor, En. Amie dan En. Nazalan serta En. Hasan Saru (kini di JMG Johor) atas pengantaran spesimen-spesimen [...]
[Production Note: This post is heavily inspired by a true story! The ONLY difference is that in real life no food was ever brough...]now that i'm at the Oh-lympics, my special talent agent peter bond is [...]
Links to K-12 lesson plans and classroom resources for the topic of
Mike Blanpied of the United States Geological Survey gives a briefing on the recent Chile earthquake and why that country did not suffer as many deaths as the far less powerful earthquake in
Polar bear fossils are not a common find, so information about the bears’ evolution is relatively scarce. Researchers have sequenced the DNA of a Norwegian polar bear fossil, and conclude that the [...]
In 2005 I received a permit to collect vertebrate fossils from a locality in the Purisima Formation. This project lasted two summers, and resulted in the collection of dozens of shark teeth and vertebrae, [...]
This was a false alarm? Photographs from CBS News and APTwo situations:In the first, it's a school day, and some kid pulls the fire alarm. Bells ring and students have to evacuate even though there is no [...]
Open notebook science is kinda like open access for your data. In other words, it recognizes that a scientific contribution is more than just the resulting publication. These publications are often underlain [...]
In the valley below the potash evaporation ponds featured yesterday there is an overhanging cliff of Permian Cutler Formation redbeds that is covered in the most remarkable Quaternary deposit…
Salt [...]
Duran Duran live in 2010, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.Before getting back to usual programming (flowers, bugs and toxic waste).... here is my only close-up of Simon Le Bon. I would say he's doing [...]
Salvador Puig Antich (Barcelona, 30 de mayo de 1948 - 2 de marzo de 1974) fue un anarquista español, activo durante la década de 1960 y comienzos de la de 1970, que murió ejecutado por el régimen [...]
Eisbär im Ukkusiksalik National Park, Nunavut, Kanada. Ansgar Walk, CC-by-sa-3.0
In Zeiten des Klimawandels sind die Eisbären (Ursus maritimus) fast zu einem Symboltier geworden. Der Eisbär zeigt aber [...]
Com arribar-hi
A l’avinguda de Vilanova, entre el passeig de Sant Joan i el carrer Roger de Flor s’ha obert una gran rasa en motiu de les obres de l’estació de tren i de metro d’Arc de Triomf. En ella [...]
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Accretionary Wedge #21: Earth Science Outreach
Happy Halloween! I hope you all are having a fun day of candy-and-costume-filled spookiness. And speaking of playing different roles, Earth scientists wear one [...]
Accretionary Wedge #20: Why?
Asked for the ultimate answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, Deep thought, the supercomputer created by the imagination of the science-writer [...]
Several news items have been posted to the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center News page:
A thesis defense by WWU graduate student Nikki Moore will be Friday, March 12th, open to the public;
A badly needed [...]
It looks like some of us may be getting together to write a recommendation for the AWG Outstanding Teacher Award. Many of us have not written recommendations before and I was wondering if the geoblogosphere [...]
While at school I started a geology journal club where we would get together once a week and discuss a short article. This is good practice for communicating an argument and defending that position. The one [...]
Does that make it the textonic? Text tonic?We are working our way through the USGS poster on the Chile quake.The text on the tectonic setting: This earthquake occurred at the boundary between the Nazca and [...]
The Pack Rat (Neotoma albigula), also known as the White-throated wood rat, has been in this region for at least 50,000 years. And it has been collecting things.
Pat rats are troublesome around one’s home [...]
Living fossils are species that show up fossilized in ancient rocks, looking just like they do today alive. Let me introduce three of them from the plant kingdom: ginkgo, dawn redwood and Wollemi pine.Living [...]
NASA Earth Observatory has published a nice satellite image of the Acraman impact structure in South Australia. The Acraman crater is a so-called complex crater, as opposed to simple craters - see drawing [...]
The Digital Dirt Map of Clark County, Nevada is proceeding with a team of 13 now. The goal is to complete the map by May 1 (!), so the team may grow by a couple more members soon. One of the key issues that [...]
Nesbitt, S.J., Sidor, C.A., Irmis, R.B., Angielczyk, K.D., Smith, R.M.H., and L. A. Tsuji. 2010. Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. Nature. [...]
La revista PlosOne acaba de publicar un fascinante trabajo que refleja un instante de la vida de las serpientes del final del Cretácico en la India. La investigación liderada por Jeff Wilson describe la [...]
Here's another sneak-peek at Life (this time with David Attenborough's narration) featuring one of my most favorite canids, the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis). Enjoy! Read the comments on this
Leemos esta mañana en varios medios de comunicación, la noticia de una investigación, cuyos resultados se publican esta semana en la revista 'PLoS Biology'. Se trata del estudio de una serpiente, [...]
One of our readers has suggested this site - incredible panoramic
The PAK-FA's prototype has the same avionics as the Su-35. Don't make too much out of this like the China Military Report does. Prototypes often have temporary avionics put in place while their development [...]
Größere Kartenansicht
In Uganda am Mount Elgon hat es im Distrikt Bududa am Montag, den 1. März 2010, einen größeren Erdrutsch gegeben. Mindestens 50 Menschen wurden getötet, noch immer werden rund 300 [...]
So on our way back from Mexico last November we stopped through Monument Valley to take some pictures and it turns out the lens/shutter thingy on my camera wasn't working properly and didn't really open all [...]
When discussing dinosaurs, the topic of what they ate often comes up, but what about the creatures that ate them? Obviously some dinosaurs ate other dinosaurs, but the famous prehistoric archosaurs were not [...]
Another connection-following journey, entertaining, informative - and time-consuming. For his 12th day of Christmas post, back on January 5th, Chris Rowan of Highly Allochthonous wrote of "Twelve folds [...]
ArticleIt may turn out that there were more deaths due to the tsunami, than the ground shaking. We expect this with subduction earthquakes. With this fault motion, the main ground pulse (Fist of God) is [...]
A rather neat, but useless demonstration of the power of a transportable array. This shows the seismic waves arriving from the M8.8. Close examination of seismic waves allows one to figure out the velocity [...]
Belly-up in heaven, from the Dinosaur Toys Collectors GuideJust was tipped off to a relatively new site on the webs: The Dinosaur Toys Collectors Guide. Site owner Barry is quite a dedicated fellow, and the [...]
The conference is organized by the M. P. Semenenko Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Formation of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine and the Mineralogical Society of Poland
Main topics [...]
So, I’ve introduced you to the sediments at the Crucifix Site, and the faults which cut across those sediments.
Today, I would like to show you something else that I found there, and ask you to tell me [...]
Die Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) hat einiges an Lehrmaterialien zum Thema Erdbeben allgemein und speziell zum jüngsten Erdbeben in Chile ins Netz gestellt. Leider auf Englisch, so [...]
Die iranische Band Blurred Vision mit einer Coverversion des Pink Floyd Klassikers. Das Video stammt von dem Filmemacher Babak
When I say "Therapod" what pops into your mind? A sharp-toothed, fleet-footed, flesh-eating monster of a dinosaur, right? Tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs, raptors... But what about a squat, [...]
Hydrothermal vents sometimes colonized from afar (Science News) – ‘Field studies at a hydrothermal vent system where all life was snuffed out by a massive undersea volcanic eruption reveal that [...]
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has lowered the alert level for Mayon from 2 (‘moderate unrest’) to the lowest level of 1 (‘no eruption imminent’). Seismic [...]
There is so much material out there on these devastating events ... hard to be selective, but in these times of supposed information overload, that's our challenge. I do want to work through more details of [...]
En efecto, hoy se cumplen tres años del nacimiento del Equipo de Introducción a la Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas (EIIGPBS), el cual supuso una apuesta por la aplicación de nuevas técnicas [...]
Ha sido inevitable. He leído una noticia en la DML y me ha venido a la mente una escena entrañable de "El Principito" de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. En esta escena, el Principito muestra un dibujo a [...]
O Estado do Piauí recebeu este rally internacional pela primeira vez e "enxerga" futuros ganhos para a sua economia com o turismo náutico. Quando 22 veleiros de sete países europeus aportaram em Luis [...]
Three new GPS satellites are being launched to provide better locational support for troops in Afghanistan. The current constellation of satellites does not provide suitable coverage for troops in the rugged [...]
An excavator mounted drill rig drilling shafts as part of a project to pass utilities under I-35 near 51st Street toppled over while trying to move in soft, rain soaked soil. The Austin Fire Department was [...]
Wildfires benefit forests in a number of ways, and help preserve healthy woodland ecosystems. OSU professor John Bailey would like to foster awareness of better forest fire mitigation
CNN has a gallery of photos showing the damage and problems faced by people who survived Saturday’s magnitude 8.8
How much water is used in the production, marketing, and transportation of the groceries in your home? The answer may surprise you. A project headed by Chris T. Hendrickson of Carnegie Mellon University has [...]
A strong winter storm hit France and parts of Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany and England with winds gusting over 100 miles per hour. Many people drowned when they were surprised by a storm surge combined [...]
2010 is expected to be a banner year for red tide algal blooms in the Gulf of Maine. The seeds, or cysts, released last year far outnumber those that caused the large outbreak in
I just had 2.8 Gb of old slides scanned and found my favorite flood debris picture in the world. This is me standing in the midst of the enormous flotsam pile that was deposited along the lower Verde [...]
Charles Knight, Stephen Jay Gould wrote, was "...the person most responsible for our usual sense, our everyday 'feel,' of the nature, status, beauty, strangeness, and fascination of prehistoric life."My copy [...]
There is an old cliché amongst journalists, which I am sure you have heard before, “If it bleeds, it leads.” There is a slightly less familiar version: “If it ate baby dinosaurs [...]
Eines der größten Probleme bei Erdbeben stellt die schwer beschädigte Infrastruktur dar. Hilfskräfte können dadurch nicht schnell genug an die Verschütteten heran, Verletzte nicht ab- und Hilfsgüter [...]
So I heard that BrianR of Clastic Detritus was nominated for best research blogging tweeter (Awesome, and congrats BrianR). I was curious about the geoblogging representation and I found a rather pleasant [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology on March 1st, 2010:
U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program
GSOC Home Page
Dinosaurs and Extinct Animals Coloring Pages
goodSchist » Tsunami [...]
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