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At the last meeting of my local geological society , they announced that the deadline for our three scholarships , one undergraduate and two graduate, is being extended to December 15 to collect more candidates. This money is meant for research in or near northern California (I guess that means al ...

Last night I attended a presentation on the rock-physics based theory of earthquake precursors (the p-hole theory), and things are moving along nicely. Funders including the World Bank and institutions like the new SUSEL underground lab in South Dakota are supporting research projects. I confess to ...

No, this isn't about a mysterious cosmic visitor that will cause the world to end in 2013. It's about Lake Kivu in Africa, a large rift-valley lake that straddles the Rwanda-Congo border. It is the world's third known erupting lake, after deadly lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon which produced deadl ...

I found two fun things yesterday. First is Mike Russell's CulturePulp online comic, where the latest entry is a spoof on geological disaster movies featuring " Lava Tornado! " Old fuddy-duddy that I am, I've written about the twisted ideas that moviemakers have about geologic hazards, but this guy h ...

We make more concrete than any other material, but the exact nature of cement—the calcium-silica-hydrate called C-S-H that holds concrete together—has always been mysterious. A research team at MIT cracked the mystery and reported how they did it in the September 7 National Academy of Sciences P ...

Isen omkring Nordpolen forsvinder hurtigere, end selv de mest skeptiske...

Det svenske Vattenfall overtog tre danske kulfyrede kraftværker –...

I Sverige har en mineralsamler fundet de første svenske diamanter...

Dig og klimaet Informationscenter for Miljø og Sundhed har i dag (1....

Jordskred, som det der onsdag aften rev 400 meter af motorvej E6 og 300 meter...

The colour streaks across the ocean in the image above are from a large phytoplankton bloom. Phytoplankton are plant-like organisms that live in the surface waters of the ocean. The dark blue and greenish colours are from chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in most plants, algae, and c ...

A couple of months back I posted an image of a ‘flying’ mount of the odd pterosaur Dsungaripterus taken at the IVPP. I had intended to include, but completely forgot, this image of a walking mount from the Beijing Natural History Museum. There’s not much to say here since I have already covere ...

Today I got the results of the geochemical analysis of the samples that I took during fieldwork in France. Plotting the CaCO3 (top), MgCO3 (left) and Impurities (right) into a triangle gives a...well...boring but good result. Totally depending what you want to do with these rocks. But what else to e ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) reported earlier this week a significant performance improvement of fuel used in high temperature gas reactors. The particle fuel used in these nuclear reactions consists of a uranium pellet that is surrounded by layers of carbon and carbide to contain the radioa ...

DTA, formerly a U.S. Sales and Service Center for Guralp Systems , a world leader in the design and manufacture of low-noise broadband seismometers, is now in the process of closing down, and has a few Educational Seismographs ("PEPP" and "EDU" instruments) in its inventory for sale.  These instrum ...