Two spinosaurs chat about good fishing spots. Illo by Susan Swan.Vintage Dinosaur Art posts have been heavy on the historical stuff lately, but now that I've got a new scanner and it's hooked up and humming, I'm digging into the stack of old dinosaur books I have sitting on my ancient CPU. One of [...]
Os adjuntamos información sobre un curso que puede ser interesante.Attached you will find a preliminary program and the registration form of the interdisciplinary course for graduated students and professionals on cultural heritage, entitled: “SCIENCE & PAST: FROM ANCIENT METHODS TO NEW [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for September 9th, 2010: Sydney Basin – Geological Overview | NSW Department of Primary Industries Virtual Earthquake – Geology Labs On-line Sedimentary processes – Australian Museum Supernova shrapnel slammed into meteorite | [...]
Epidote is generally green, and not just green but pistachio green, a light yellowish olive green. It's a widespread sign of medium-grade metamorphism. Sometimes it can be found in crystals, ...Read Full
Here is a link to more earthquake photos from New Zeland- note the right lateral dispacement and the enechalon faulting patternLiving in a Maelstrom (47 pics) » Izismile - Pictures, videos, games and
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Es ist immer wieder gut, wenn man mal einen kleinen Schritt zurück geht, um ein Bild vom Großen und Ganzen zu erhaschen. Und so etwas haben wir hier. Diese beiden winzigen Lichtflecken auf der samtenen schwärze des Universums sind unsere gute alte Erde [...]
Statue of Joseph Leidy at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Photo by Kerrins Giraffe, via Flickr.Thanks to the always dependable Palaeoblog for reminding me that today is 19th century naturalist Joseph Leidy's birthday. I've been meaning for a long time to talk about him here, so I [...]
The new edition of Walkingtown, DC is coming up on the weekend of September 25-26. On Sunday, the 26th, from 9 am – 1 pm, Callan Bentley will be leading History Before History: The Geologic Saga of Washington, DC Meet … Continue reading
More spectacular photos from the Canterbury earthquake in New Zealand are flooding the intertubes. Many are reminiscent of strike slip faulting in California with right lateral shear and offsets. Note the sand boils from liquefaction.Take a look at the more extensive photo set at izismiles.com [...]
OPINIONAs outlined in the previous article, I cannot conceive what bizarre geology allowed this to be an M7.0! It must have put out a lot of low-frequency energy. In terms of ground motion, I call this an M5.5. There is no way you can compare it to Haiti, where the 'Fist of God' must have hit [...]
The American Geological Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce that the winners of the first “Life in the Field” Video and Photo Contest are Patricia A. Beddows of Northwestern University for her video “Yucatan Peninsula Geology” and Danita Brandt of Michigan State [...]
Working my way through the photos from July, when I spent a memorable few days in Oregon, I've been adding to my collection of Oregon geological attractions.
When I planned my visit to Burns, I looked down upon it in Google Maps, like everyone else. South of town is a long, very narrow ridge [...]
Serpentine is actually a mineral group rather than a single species, but they're all green. Not much of it is found on land, ...Read Full
(after Wanek 1959 and Griffitts 1990)A while ago we decided that we would spend the last of the summer explorations looking at the back country of Mesa Verde National Park. In the past few years, the park has allowed ranger led treks to look at some of the less explored regions of the park. It was [...]
Am Freitag, 16:35:46 UTC (Sonnabend 04:35:46 Ortszeit) gab es in Neuseeland South Island ein Erdbeben der Stärke 7.0 (USGS) bzw. 6.7 (GEOFON).Auf dem Video ist die auslösende Störung nach dem Erdbeben im Gelände gut zu erkennen.
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I've been meaning to feature birds more often here - as they are the living descendants of theropod dinosaurs - and I've decided to start a new series called Extant Theropod Appreciation. First up: one of my favorites, Cathartes aura. The Turkey Vulture.Vultures get a bad rap. If I mention that [...]
Not many writers know how to be lyrical about rocks. Dana Hunter is a science-fiction writer who came to realize that creating worlds requires an understanding of planets when she ...Read Full
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for September 8th, 2010: Color Landform Atlas of the United States Hydrogeology of Southern Ontario What the Earth Knows: an article by Robert B. Laughlin | The American Scholar Geology Mineral Resources Education Program of BC Global Volcanism [...]
A recent study by members of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has been getting a lot of attention - one where it was suggested that we are very close to the ability to detect volcanic eruptions on extrasolar (not in our solar system) planets with 30 light years. This comes from [...]
Plants can also help us in finding uranium.byDr. Nitish Priyadarshi Fig. Aster VenustaName of the plant in the figure below is Astraqualus sp.Geobotanical methods of prospecting involve the use of vegetation for identification of the nature and properties of the substrate. Paradoxically, these [...]
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