| Posted: 30 Aug 2009 02:02 PM PDT Several staff members at the Utah Geological Survey have been blogging about the Geology of Utah. If you are interested in that topic you should visit their site and take a look right now – they are doing a great job. They have posts about publications, press releases and Utah geology as found [...] |
| Uranium Debates: Arizona and Colorado Posted: 30 Aug 2009 01:31 PM PDT Lots of people are extremely interested in uranium exploration and mining projects in Arizona and Colorado. Lee Alison links to a number of news articles here, and here, and here from his Arizona Geology Blog. |
| Siberian Mammoth Moves to New Home Posted: 30 Aug 2009 01:18 PM PDT A twelve-foot-tall Siberian mammoth fossil on display at the Arizona Geological Survey courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Novosibirsk, Russia has been surprising visitors to the survey’s atrium since February. The fossil has been purchased and is moving to a new home. Staff members of the Novosibirsk museum have recovered several mammoth [...] |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2009 11:33 AM PDT Google Maps Mania has links to several websites related to California’s Station Fire. Three link to maps that detail the extent of the fire, the third links to the WebCams Travel site where you can see images from the Mount Wilson and Altadena stations. |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2009 10:57 AM PDT Kuensel Online, Bhutan’s daily news site, reports that the Department of Geology and Mines in Bhutan is in discussions with foreign interests who would like to have exploration rights to the entire country. |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2009 10:47 AM PDT Ralph Harrington has a series of posts at The Volcanism Blog that feature “volcano art”. So far he has art for Mount Asama (Japan), Vesuvius (Italy), Mayon (Philippines), and others. He also has a collection of “volcanoes on matchboxes”. |
| One-Mile Ice Core for Climate Change Studies Posted: 30 Aug 2009 10:36 AM PDT The deepest ice core ever was taken from the Greenland ice sheet this summer. Researchers will now evaluate the core which is thought to contain a 120,000-year-long climate record. |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2009 09:45 AM PDT At 9:00 AM PST Hurricane Jimena was a category four hurricane with sustained wind of 135 miles per hour and higher gusts. It is moving northwest off the coast of Mexico and is expected to arrive at the southern end of the Baja Peninsula early Tuesday morning and move parallel to the peninsula. [...] |
| Station Fire at La Canada Flintridge Posted: 30 Aug 2009 04:11 AM PDT The Los Angeles Times has a photo gallery with some spectacular scenes from the Station Fire at La Cañada Flintridge which has burned over 20,000 acres north of Los Angeles. |
| Burgess Shale Discovered: 8/30/1909 Posted: 30 Aug 2009 04:04 AM PDT Today is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils by Charles Walcott in British Columbia, Canada. One reason for their fame is that they are an excellent example of soft-bodied preservation of Middle Cambrian organisms. |
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