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A dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
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It's hard to believe that only a year ago this site was launched! So much has happened in that time!In actuality, ART Evolved as a concept is a bit older then a year. In December 2008 Peter and myself thought up the idea of a multi artist palaeo-art show. However when we contacted potential participants about such a show, everyone of them thought there was enough interest to go a step further and create a proper blog. So for the beginning months of 2009 in secret we put together and constructed [...]
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We would like to inform you that the field trip registration of the 20th
General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA2010,
Budapest, August 2010) has been opened.
Field work [...]
Cross posted from my personal blog: Has there really been more earthquakes than average?
Damage in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Reuters/Marco Fredes
After the massive earthquake this past weekend in Chile, MSNBC [...]
Lage des Epizentrums, USGS.
Am 27. Februar um 3:34 Uhr Ortszeit wurde Chile von einem Erdbeben der Magnitude 8,8 erschüttert. Damit gehört das Erdbeben zu den [...]
You're asked to do some strange stuff. DabelBrothers, a company I do work for, has asked me to do some redesigns of the 90's Dinosaucers cartoon. So these are the first attempts. Allo the allosaurus...(I won't [...]
I found an interesting little article on CNN's website today: it's a brief write-up of Darwin's own Chilean earthquake experience in 1835, with some excerpts from The Voyage of the Beagle, including his [...]
Chile is the world's largest biggest copper producer. Saturday's giant earthquake in Chile was well south of most of that nation's copper mines, "But there was sufficient infrastructure damage to the [...]
The March 2010 Washington Watch column is now available online with an overview of the proposals in President Obama’s FY2011 budget that affect oil, natural gas, and the
Copper mining has long been the mainstay of Chilean exports and accounts for almost a third of all foreign trade, and Chile is the world’s largest copper producer representing almost a third of global copper [...]
Just a quick note to let you all know that I'm finally back from Guatemala with samples in hand and only a bit of surface damage. (Much better than last time.) It was a really successful trip, minus the bits [...]
The figure below is another piece of the poster on the Chile quake available from the U.S. Geological Survey.This figure includes quakes with magnitudes > 5.5, whereas the last figure only showed quakes with [...]
I got the chance to travel from Houston to Seymour, TX and explore the Texas Redbeds in search of fossils with David and the HMNS Paleo Program. HMNS staff and volunteers have been making these trips for [...]
An adult chimpanzee in Bossou, Guinea uses hammer and anvil stones to crack nuts as younger individuals look on. From Haslam et al., 2009.
Before 1859 the idea that humans lived alongside the mammoths, [...]
Thanks to Aves3D I no longer have to argue the advantages of 3D for viewing skeletal and life reconstructions. I just have to show this site. All it needs are zoom outs to the fully configured skeletons, [...]
Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument is best known for the exquisite collection of Jurassic-age fossils that have been discovered there since the beginning of the 20th century, but what is less well known [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for March 1st, 2010:
TLC :: Earthquakes: Make a Quake
World’s biggest earthquakes since 1900 – CNN.com
NAGT
Electronic Desktop Project – Virtual [...]
Wie entstehen Staus? Wer kennt das als Autofahrer nicht: Man fährt auf einer zwar vollen, aber nicht verstopften Straße. Alle Fahrzeuge haben ungefähr die selbe Geschwindigkeit und wie aus heiterem Himmel [...]
Der berühmte Space Art-Künstler Robert T. McCall ist tot. Er starb am vergangenen Freitag in seiner Heimatstadt Scottsdale/Arizona an einem Herzinfarkt. McCall wurde 90 Jahre alt.
Neben dem bekannten [...]
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Toba caldera in Indonesia.
We're all still talking about the Chilean earthquake and the coverage of the event. If you happen to live in the Columbus area, you might have heard me on WTVN talking [...]
Although some of us have been suffering the coldest and most snowy winter for 30 years (and I can assure you that I am definitely tired of shoveling snow), January 2010 was globally the hottest ever (based on [...]
Die Geschichte der Päpstin Johanna ist mit ziemlicher Sicherheit eine Legende. Aber auch aus anderen Gründen ist der Titel eigentlich falsch - "Papst" kommt vom lateinischen Papa bzw. vom griechischen [...]
Masih ingat animasi-animasi tsunami ketika terjadi di Aceh dan juga di Pangandaran ? Kali ini tsunami Chile juga dibuat simulasinya oleh dua orang ahli dari Jepang. Sangat beruntung ternyata tsunami yang [...]
GSA/ExxonMobil Bighorn Basin Field AwardA FREE professional development opportunity for undergraduate geology students and professorsAugust 1-6, 2010GSA and ExxonMobil are excited to announce their 2nd Annual [...]
Dam Safety News for January and February - Association of State Dam Safety Officials
Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping - Slashgeo
"The Guide includes: * a brief [...]
Una viñeta con casi dos años de retraso. Prometemos más regularidad a partir de
Sauropod skulls are extremely rare and only a few complete ones have been found. BYU researchers have found the first complete sauropod skulls known from the Cretaceous of the Western Hemisphere in Dinosaur [...]
Some maps of the Chilean earthquake:
1) Henry Fountain of the NY Times writes about the geologic setting of the earthquake accompanied by tectonic and fault maps of the region.
2) The United States [...]
Some listenable science talks I came across this past month:
1) Steven Strogatz Talks Math - What is the difference between an extroverted mathematician and an introverted mathematician?....the extroverted [...]
As many times as I’ve passed the Bonneville Salt Flats, it seems I still don’t have a digital photo of them. So, to continue the evaporative theme for the weekend, today’s [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology on February 28th, 2010:
SCSN – The Southern California Seismic Network
Geology of National Parks
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Geophysicists – J. Tuzo Wilson
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Wacke is pronounced “wacky.” It’s a name for coarse sandstone that contains a lot of junk: clay, rock fragments and minerals other than quartz. This is a closeup of wacke from the Oakland [...]
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/article_d4138dc4-60a2-544c-8ba8-45ed550df2c2.htmlThe Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), published this story earlier on local fossil collector Stan Krzyzanowski. Those of you [...]
As nossas águas de Março não serão tão interessantes como as brasileiras, mas também têm a sua
FONTE: TERRAOs restos fossilizados de um tubarão de dez metros de comprimento foram encontrados por cientistas americanos no Estado do Kansas. Os pesquisadores desenterraram um pedaço do osso da mandíbula, [...]
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At the NASA Earth Observatory a new natural colour image of Chile’s Chaitén volcano and the surrounding area has been published in the Natural Hazards category. Captured on 25 February 2010 by the [...]
This weekend's heavy rains across the state after a wetter than normal winter so far, are keeping everyone alert to landslides and flooding hazards. I've only seen a couple of ADOT highway hazard notices:
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The El Niño rains have saturated the ground in southeastern Arizona, and new rainfall flows off quickly, producing hazardous road conditions. The van in this picture was being driven on Happy Valley Road in [...]
The annual national meeting of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) opened at the Phoenix Convention Center yesterday with short courses and last evening's icebreaker social. AZGS is [...]
House Bill 2617 is becoming more like a mining omnibus with the addition of amendments that create a Mining Advisory Council (ARS 41-4601) to oversee state agency rules, policies, and budgets. The list of [...]
A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species whose future is now seen as synonymous [...]
The latest ELI+ activity is 'From clay balls to the structure of the Earth; a discussion of how physics can be used to probe Earth's structure.'This activity consolidates understanding of many physical [...]
A few interesting links related to the Chile Earthquake. Over the next days and weeks, I will try to highlight interesting news and blog posts related to this event.
Chile Earthquake: Soft ground bites [...]
Es ist wohl eines der wichtigsten Themen unserer Zeit: die weltweite Armut. Viel wird darüber geschrieben und geredet - und leider gibt es auch viele Vorurteile. Gerne wirft man in Gedanken ganz Afrika in [...]
The title of this piece, El Salvador–Gold, Guns, and Choice, is the title of a report that recently came my way. If you are interested in the issues of social justice, mining, and death in [...]
The Swift Creek landslide, on the west flank of Sumas Mountain, is the focus of the latest field trip at Northwest Geology Field Trips. This is strictly a virtual field trip, as the landslide is on private [...]
After first trying to go it alone, the Chilean government has acknowledged that foreign relief will be needed to cope with the earthquake devastation in that country; read a report at this CBS news website. [...]
Spektrumdirekt hat heute ein Dossier zum Thema “Rohstoffe. Wie lange halten die Vorräte für unsere Industrie?” online veröffentlicht. Die Texte bieten einen vielfältigen [...]
The March, 2010, version of Where in the West (WITW) is really just an excuse to post a glacier picture or two. You can tell me the location or name of this glacier in the comments, and identify any glacial [...]
Frédéric Chopin (Żelazowa Wola, 1 de Março de 1810 — Paris, 17 de Outubro de 1849) foi um pianista polaco e compositor para piano da era romântica. É amplamente conhecido como um dos maiores [...]
Workshop de Ilustração PaleontológicaFormadora: Guida CasellaA Paleontologia é uma das ciências que mais uso faz da visão e do desenho, que ainda hoje não é substituível pela fotografia, vídeo ou [...]
So, those sediments we saw yesterday? They’re faulted in the area around the Crucifix Site.
As this image shows, the style of faulting is normal faulting:
Annotated with some color to jazz things up a [...]
Am Sonnabend um 3.34 Uhr lokaler Zeit wurde Chile von einem Erdbeben der Magnitude 8,8 erschüttert. Das Erdbeben gehört damit zu den 5 stärksten jemals gemessenen, und war rund 100 mal so stark wie das vom [...]
Per stabilire la comparsa dell'uomo in un determinato territorio oltre alla ricognizione diretta dei resti della sua attività ci sono altri indicatori ecologici. Gli utensili di pietra usati dall'uomo [...]
I met the head of the US Patent office on Saturday.Unfortunately, it was in a baby vomit covered shirt. *sighs*I'm sure I made a positive
This microscope image of an Ordovician Period cornulite worm tube with a bryozoan growing on it. I guess it could be the other way around with the cornulite growing on the bryozoan. It looks like the bryozoan [...]
Seguimos con uno de los lugares que más me impresionó de mi viaje por tierras argentinas. Como buen santo de la iglesia Encisista que soy, fui a construir unas misiones en estas tierras patagónicas. Pero [...]
In the previous article we looked at the proposal that the various babirusa taxa - long regarded as subspecies - deserve to be raised to species rank. The argument goes that the taxa concerned are (1) [...]
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile on Saturday, centered about 200 miles southwest of the capital, Santiago and 70 miles north-northeast of Concepcion, one of the worst hit areas. According to the USGS [...]
On the 1st of March Romanians celebrate the arrival of spring. Many other countries have some sort of spring celebration, but as far as I know, "Martisor" (Romanian pronunciation: [mərt͡siˈʃor]) is a [...]
An article on the Vancouver Sun website explains how most of the major oil companies jumping into the shale gas plays of Europe. A big problem is that there are currently very few rigs
Japan placed its eastern coastline on a tsunami alert after the recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile. Their Meteorological Agency warned that waves up to 10 feet high could hit the shoreline. Hundreds [...]
The Short-Term Energy Outlook of EIA reports…. “CO2 emissions from fossil fuels fell by an estimated 6.3 percent in 2009. Emissions from coal led the drop in 2009 CO2 emissions, falling by nearly [...]
The recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile was the fifth most powerful earthquake since 1900. The most powerful earthquake ever recorded was a 9.5 magnitude event that occurred in Chile in
Even now, a day after the huge 8.8 magnitude quake rocked Chile, the USGS is still monitoring aftershocks upwards of 5.5 on the Richter Scale. The earthquake was caused by a thrust of the Nazca Plate as it [...]
Leon Claessens directed me today towards his online archive of bird morphology based on various 3D scans of living and fossil taxa. It’s a great scientific resource and well worth some time looking [...]
This CBS video reports on the tsunami that threatened Hawaii as a result of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that occurred on Saturday morning in
Look! Nothronychus! The only way I was able to make this animal look in any way reasonable, I took a few liberties with its design. First, it's got big legs. Why? Because when they were any slimmer, they ended [...]
The U.S Geological Survey has already issued an informative poster on the Chile earthquake, which can be downloaded here.Here is the first part of the poster:You can see the past earthquakes along the [...]
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