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Original Technorati articles tagged “geology”

• in Celebrity
  I Used to Know That: Geography (Stuff You Forgot From School)
  “Without Geography, you’re nowhere.” –Jimmy Buffett
  by missbobetier / on Oct 3, 2011
• in Technology
  British Geological Survey Online Maps Really Rock!
  UK residents can now peer beneath their feet using comprehensive online geological maps.
  by orangeduvet / on Dec 10, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “geology”

 

• Senator Jeremy Millers constituent not fooled by self-congratulory frac sand regs press release

  
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  Theres something missing in recent news stories about the watered-down frac sand mining regulations heading to the governors desk. At Politics in Minnesota, Charley Shaw reports in Broadbased state regulations emerge for frac sand mining : . . . Heading into conference committee, the Senate reached a deal to ...
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• Actor Johnny Depp gets 505 million years old fossil named after him

  
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  Usually, species are named after defining trait, or sometimes, more rarely, after somebody famous in the field, but every once in a while, they get some rather cooky names – like is the case with Kooteninchela deppi . Cambrian and scrissors Pronounced Koo-ten-ee-che-la depp-eye, the 505-million-year-old ...
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• 1.8 Offshore Oregon

  
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  Sunday May 19 2013, 15:45:53 UTC 4 hours ago offshore Oregon 1.8 39.8 USGS Feed Detail
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• Upheaval Dome Syncline Trail- Canyonlands National Park

  
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  After we finished the Grand View Point Trail  we drove to Upheaval Dome for the highlight of the day’s activities, Syncline Trail in Canyonlands National Park. Upheaval Dome is believed to have been created by the impact of a meteorite, as you can see from the crater and concentric circles in the picture ...
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• Reading Rock to Understand How Climate Change Unfolds

  
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  Geosciences professor John Isbell (left) and postdoctoral researcher Erik Gulbranson look over some of the many samples they have brought back from Antarctica. The two are part of an international team of scientists investigating the last extreme climate shift on Earth, which occurred in the late Paleozoic Era. ...
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  Circular Motion Todays Astronomy Picture of the Day takes us to our own planet. What caused this strange feature on the surface of our world?
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• Stony Ripples from Ancient Seabeds

  
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    There are many strange and interesting shapes and textures in the rocks on the beach at Mewslade Bay on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. Most of them seem to be the result of weathering and erosion but these photographs show something different, unique, for that location. They appear to be preserved ...
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• Dying Trees Set Stage For Erosion And Water Loss

  
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  Image Caption: Pinyon pine forests near Los Alamos, N.M., had already begun to turn brown from drought stress in the image at left, in 2002, and another photo taken in 2004 from the same vantage point, at right, show them largely grey and dead. (Photo by Craig Allen, U.S. Geological Survey) New research concludes ...
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• Fish sticks: DFL controlled legislature caves in to industrial sand industry special interests

  
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  The DFL legislature is prepared to sell out Southeastern Minnesota to industrial sand mining interests, despite widespread grassroots appeals for relief.  The Star Tribunes Tony Kennedy reports in Dwindling frac sand legislation rests on trout stream setbacks : Environmental activists who pushed ambitious ...
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• When #Earth is Scarred Forever

  
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  Our planet is covered in pockmarks so deep that they can be seen from space. Some were caused by ...
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• 1.5 Near Sweet Home, OR

  
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  M1.5 - 18km SSE of Sweet Home, Oregon Time 2013-05-10 08:53:23-07:00 Location 44.245°N 122.636°W Depth 0.0km
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• LSP: Troutfishing in America, or, the stream you save with a call to your senator may be your own

  
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  From the Land Stewardship Project: Contact Your Senator IMMEDIATELY Today the Star Tribune newspaper ran an editorial in support of strong regulation of the frac sand industry. The editorial, entitled " Minnesota Legislature must protect trout streams, " says in part: “Schmit’s common-sense legislation, ...
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• Ball Aerospace Earth Survey Satellite Wraps Up 17-Year Mission; Cary Ludtke Comments

  
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  A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built satellite has concluded its Earth monitoring mission after 17 years in space after initially being intended for a five-year mission. Radarsat-1 launched in 1995 for the Canadian government to collect images of Earth’s geologic features by circling the planet every 101 ...
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• Xenoliths in Hawaiian lava

  
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  Lava flow in the western part of Hawai’i that originated from the Hualalai volcano and formed in 1800…1801 is remarkably rich in xenoliths . It is an aa lava . Many nice examples of dunite and peridotite (rocks from the mantle) can be found with a little bit of patience and searching. This is how they ...
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• Evidence of a Brazlian Atlantis?

  
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  A lost continent off the coast of Brazil may have been found, scientists announced this week. Granite boulders dredged from the seafloor off the coast of South America two years ago could be remnants of a long-vanished continent, according to Roberto Ventura Santos, the geology director of Brazils Geology Service. ...
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• Some perspectives in time and space

  
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  First, time. Earth became habitable for primitive life forms some 3.X billion years ago. It will cease to be habitable in another 1 billion years or less, given the rate at which the Sun continues to get hotter, which it has been doing for the duration. Species last, on average, a couple million years. Depending on ...
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• The Carbonaceous Chondrite Common History Of Earth And Moon Water

  
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  Water found on the moon and Earth came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, according to researchers who found evidence in samples of moon dust returned by lunar crews of Apollo 15 and 17. Comets did not deliver the molecules, they ...
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• Dreaming of San Onofre Beach

  
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  SAN ONOFRE STATE BEACH, CA – The warm spring weather in Wooster, OH has us dreaming of the beach rather than finals week. Some lucky Wooster Geologists had a recent beach fix when they visited  San Onofre State Beach  in southern California during the Keck Symposium . Symposium attendees had two options for the ...
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• Self-assembling robot worms.

  
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  Inhabitat heralds the end of human dominance on Earth with news of a 3D-printed worm that can build itself out of its own parts : Researchers at Harvard and MIT teamed up to produce a 3D-printed inchworm robot that is able to aseemble itself. Using shape memory polymers that automatically fold into desired ...
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• Study Shows Water On The Moon Came From Same Source As That of the Earth

  
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  A study on moon rocks and samples from the Apollo mission show that water on the moon came from the same source as that of water found on Earth. This discovery raises questions on how the Moon is believed to be formed. The Great Impact Theory of the formation of the moon involves a planet the size of Mars called ...
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