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Accretionary Wedge #23: That is not dead which can eternal lie
The March 2010 Accretionary Wedge is being hosted by Ed at Geology Happens, and here's the proposed theme:"This AW is to share your latest discovery with all of us. Please let us in on your thoughts...
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MAMOHTEHKA MAMA
"Mom for baby-mammoth" is an old soviet cartoon inspired by the discovery of baby "Dima" in 1977. This little masterpiece tells the story about baby mammoth that miraculously avoided extinction and...
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Landslide in South Tyrol causes train derailment
Bozen, 12 April 2010: 9 confirmed victims, 23 people injured, these are the latest sad information’s about a rail crash between the towns of Latsch and Kastelbell in the South Tyrolean “Etschtal”,...
View ArticlePeru glacier breaks up, causes tsunami
A part of a glacier broke off and plunged into a lake in Peru, causing a 23m tsunami wave that swept away at least three people and destroyed a water processing plant serving 60,000 local residents,...
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Taphonomy of hominid sites, or what geology can tell us about our origins
Since a French geology student visited the remote region nearly 50 years ago, and brought back tales of fossil rich sediments, the area around the river Awash is considered a "must seen" for...
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Tephrostratigraphy
The ongoing eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull caused much interest in the geoblogosphere (Italy, Portugal, U.S.A and Outside,geologists - but also paleontologists get interested, and...
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Accretionary Wedge 24: Heroes VS Cartoons
Callan Bentley at Mountain Beltway will be hosting the next edition of The Accretionary Wedge and he is searching heroic earth scientists.I was influenced by many people in my approach to geology,...
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Volcano god angry - lets sacrifice the geologist
Natural events or presumed catastrophes will always lure from their hideouts religious fanatics and other self declared experts.The ongoing eruption on Island for example was interpreted as a side...
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Arkology
Evangelists claim 'Noah's Ark' discovery on Turkish mountain.So my theory that it was/is hidden in area 51 is not more supported ?Fig.1. With the wood of the ark you could make a lot of crates...To be...
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Biggest Beaver Dam Ever
The actual location of the world longest beaver dam (that is until someone find a longer one) is just south of Lake Claire, about 190 km to the NNE of Fort McMurray, inside Wood Buffalo National Park,...
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The first geological map depicting loess (1865)
Loess is silt dominated sediment with minor amounts of sand and clay. This homogenous particle distribution is a result of the formation of the up to hundred of meters thick massive deposit; it's a...
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Te Pito Te Henua: Botanical Investigations from the navel of the world
The collapse of the civilisation on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui in the native language, became very popular with the film "Rapa Nui" (1994) and the book of the American biologist Jared Diamond "Collapse...
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They say that reading rocks is hard to do...
Ever wonder how to tell if a rock layer is right-side-up or turned by mountain building? Dr. Richard Alley has the answers !
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Mount St. Helens: 30 years of posteruption glacier development
Fig.1. Glaciers in the crater of Mount Saint Helens. The Crater Glacier is shaped in a horseshoe around the new domes that have developed in the crater. The west lobe of the glacier is visible in the...
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The hard life of being geologist - An introduction
150 years ago the practical work of geologists in the field was considerable different to modern standards (at least in Europe), there were differences in the equipment, but also differences in the...
View ArticleMegafauna Methane collapse
There are lots of hypothesis dealing with the extinction of the Pleistocene Megafauna. Now a research team of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque adds a something different approach to the...
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Geology and Cyclicity
1842, 5 years after Agassiz's "Discourse of Neuchatel", the French mathematician Joseph Alphonse Adhémar elaborated a hypothesis to explain a cyclic occurring of ice ages. He calculated the variations...
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Geology and Cyclicity: Milankovitch´s idea
"I do not think that's my duty to teach to the ignorant the most basic things, and I have never forced anyone to accept my theory, on so far nobody could expose something."Milutin Milankovitch in...
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The discovery of the ruins of ice
"It has already been said, that no small part of the present work refers to the nature and phenomena of glaciers. It may be well, therefore, before proceeding to details, to explain a little the state...
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