Thanks to Ivan Montanari for highlighting this one. Youtube has an extraordinary video of a debris flood that appears to have occurred yesterday at Atrani on the Amalfi Coast in Italy:
The video makes a slowish start, so keep watching. This is the first debris flow of cars that I have seen [...]
Tyler d'Hulst was in Havaupai when the floods occurred in August, 2008. He recently hiked back into the canyon and is sharing photos and comments on the changes on his web site and blog. [right, my photo of the new falls created when the creek changed its
I was greatly depressed to read an article by Rob Sharp in last week's Independent, which discussed the potential impacts of a proposed 25% cut in government spending on research that forms part of the UK government's package of austerity measures. Strangely enough, however, it wasn't the [...]
Ichnology is considered a relatively young branch of the earth sciences, although like common fossils the marks left by organisms (especially vertebrate footprints) were noted already in antiquity. So its seems that the nature of fossil tracks was recognized relatively early in human history, many [...]
I recently paged through the Apologetics Study Bible for Students from the Southern Baptist B&H Publishing Group, and was pleased to see a balanced approach to the questions of the age of the Earth, the extent of the flood, and even somewhat on the role of biological evolution. Here’s the [...]
Here's a really interesting idea floated by Andrea Cau (with help from Mickey Mortimer, Ville Sinkkonen, Rutger Jansma and Zach Miller) over at his Theropoda blog.Everyone is making a big deal about Balaur bondoc, the apparently double-sickle clawed dromaeosaur. The double sickle idea comes from [...]
Not exactly volcanic, but...
Not many details yet, but the USGS Earthquake list shows a M7.2 earthquake ~25-30 km from Christchurch, New Zealand. I'll post more details as I find them, but here is a Google Map of the epicenter - UPDATE: the refined location puts it further from Christchurch, to the [...]
September 2, 1806 - the village of Goldau was destroyed by a landslide, coming from the mountain of Rossberg - nearly 500 people died. It was the first time that a naturalistic approach to a geological catastrophe was chosen instead of the assumption that the landslide was a punishment by god. [...]
Not enough Flagstaff homeowners were hurt by July and August floods to qualify for federal assistance from FEMA, according to a story in the Arizona [Flagstaff] Daily Sun. The threshold is said to be 100 residences or more and $6.6 million in damages.Coconino County and the State may yet be [...]
China: Three Gorges Dam's image showing some cracks - Source: latimes.com via ASCE SmartBrief After the serious flooding in China this summer, Chinese officials have downgraded the design flood that they expect the dam to be witheld. In 2003, officials boasted that the dam could [...]
oh man...to say that the dinosaur winter games had not been going my way, was becoming THE understatement of the year!they were potentially bankrupting me, keeping me stuck in canada (i've got things to get back to in new zealand... it feels like i've been away for AGES!), and worst of all were [...]
The state of Nevada has more fans than Las Vegas has foreclosed properties (that's a lot). This particular fan was termed the 'Barbie' fan by my co-author and UNLV colleague Brenda Buck. The name is appropriate because the shape is almost too ideal. We mapped most of the Barbie fan as part of [...]
Coconino County public works have erected jersey barriers (concrete wall segments) around nearly 25% of the homes in areas affected by the July 20 flood.Many more homeowners on the east side of the city have created sandbag barriers around their buildings and across yards or at the upstream point [...]
Coconino County is building channels and levees to protect homes on the east side of Flagstaff from future flooding that is exasperated by the Schultz fire that removed stabilizing vegetation above the populated alluvial fan. The county has spent about $2.1 million so far, and the Arizona Div. of [...]
AZGS geologist is in Flagstaff, mapping and assessing the debris flows that accompanied the July 20 flood that damage so many homes in the Timberline and Donney Park subdivisions on the east side of the city. The floods and debris flows were a result of the denuded slopes from the recent Schultz [...]
To protect the 3.000 inhabitants of the France village of Saint-Gervais–Le Fayet from a possible glacier outburst, the authorities have decided to drill into and install pumps on the Glacier de Tête-Rousse (Mont Blanc Massif), where a larger volume (65.000 cubic meters) of stagnant water is [...]
“Many Americans believe they can save energy with small behavior changes that actually achieve very little, and severely underestimate the major effects of switching to efficient, currently available technologies” – Quoted from the Columbia University press
On Tuesday we drove to the Steelpoort River Valley, about a hundred kilometers away. Work on a new dam and road has begun since we were here last, in 2006 and 2007. Once it’s finished, the dam will flood much of our field area, submerging most of the rocks we are studying. It’s a good
Climate is changing, carbon dioxide is increasing, and Earth is getting hotter.byDr. Nitish Priyadarshi Mumbai floodsFirst it was Bombay floods, then Kosi floods, Punjab floods, Rajasthan floods, Leh floods, Jharkhand drought (all in India). Now it is Paksitan floods, China flash floods and [...]
Quite clearly, the advent of web 2.0 does not pass without effects on how researchers communicate. But how do web 2.0 technologies impact scientific communication? To find out the British Research Information Network commissioned a study and published the results in a report.In deciding if they [...]
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