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British Geology Viewer
Read more: British Geology ViewerThis simple Geology of Britain viewer helps you explore the geology around Britain. Pan and zoom to where you are interested, click on an area of interest and reveal the rocks beneath.
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Breathing Similar to Birds
Read more: Breathing Similar to BirdsVia Physorg.com: …University of Utah scientists discovered that air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds. The study suggests this breathing method may have helped the dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate Earth after the planet’s worst mass extinction 251 million years ago…
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Are You Using the Browser IE 6 or 7?
Read more: Are You Using the Browser IE 6 or 7?If you are using the Internet Explorer 6 or 7 browser, you may want to update to IE8. IE6 & IE7 browsers are the least secure of the IE browsers – in fact, some say, running IE6 and IE7 is like hanging a sign on your back that says kick me (with a virus).
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Abstracts from 30th New Mexico Mineral Symposium
Read more: Abstracts from 30th New Mexico Mineral SymposiumMany interesting articles from their annual meeting in November.
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Field Trip & Archaeology Study Group Meeting This Saturday
Read more: Field Trip & Archaeology Study Group Meeting This SaturdayField Trip to Chicago Academy of Sciences Museum Collections (CAS) (part of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum). Saturday, 1/23, 10 -11 a.m. To make reservation, please contact Joe Kubal at (630) 983-6159 or e-mail at SMKubal0712@aol.com. Archaeology Study Group Meeting. Saturday, 1/23, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K. Rm 131.
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Interactive Climate Wizard
Read more: Interactive Climate WizardVia Geology.com – from University of Washington – Climate Wizard, a tool meant for scientists and non-scientists alike, is being demonstrated by The Nature Conservancy in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with the climate summit underway there. It also is the subject of a presentation Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco and a paper just released online by the Public Library of Science’s PLoS ONE with Evan Girvetz as lead presenter and lead author. Girvetz worked on Climate Wizard during postdoctoral work at the University of Washington’s School of Forest Resources and just accepted a…
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Soil Lessons for K-12
Read more: Soil Lessons for K-12Soil Science of America offers lessons in soil.
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Geologists Love Beer
Read more: Geologists Love BeerVia Wired: Fact: Geologists love beer. There is abundant proof of this here at the American Geophysical Union meeting, the largest collection of earth scientists in the world…. So the real question is why the bond between geologists and beer is so strong. I decided to do some research this week to get to the bottom of the phenomenon. So, beer in hand, I asked a sampling of the 16,000 or so geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists and atmospheric scientists at the meeting and got some very interesting responses. (Full disclosure: I am also a geologist, and I like beer.) The most popular theory was that…
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Earth’s Moving Magnetic Pole
Read more: Earth’s Moving Magnetic PoleFrom National Geographic: Santa better check his compass, because the North Pole is shifting—the north magnetic pole, that is, not the geographical one. New research shows the pole moving at rapid clip—25 miles (40 kilometers) a year.
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New Earth Science TV Show – Meteorite Men
Read more: New Earth Science TV Show – Meteorite MenThe world premiere of Meteorite Men is January 20, 2010 only on the Science Channel.
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Devils Kitchen Sinkhole Imminent Collapse
Read more: Devils Kitchen Sinkhole Imminent CollapseVia Geology.com from Arizona Geology … In 1990, the U.S. Forest Service, concerned for the safety of unwary visitors, prompted a geologic study of one sinkhole, Devils Kitchen. This article summarizes study results of the geometry, origin and potential hazards of Devils Kitchen sinkhole…
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Buried Mountains
Read more: Buried MountainsFrom BBC: Scientists who mapped one of the most enigmatic mountain ranges on Earth have given a first glimpse of their data. An international team spent two months in 2008/9 surveying the Gamburtsevs in Antarctica – a series of peaks totally buried under the ice cap.
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Paleontology Meeting: Sat. Jan. 16th – Shrimp
Read more: Paleontology Meeting: Sat. Jan. 16th – ShrimpPaleontology Study Group Meeting, Saturday, Jan 16th, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Bring your Mazon Creek shrimp specimens to be photographed for possible inclusion in new reference book!
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USGS on Haiti Earthquake
Read more: USGS on Haiti EarthquakeUSGS podcast on Haiti earthquake via KnightScience.
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Some Strong Faults Act Weak
Read more: Some Strong Faults Act WeakFrom PhysOrg: Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that “should not” slip are weaker than previously thought.
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Top 10 Paleontology Articles Most Viewed
Read more: Top 10 Paleontology Articles Most ViewedFrom National Geographic (hat tip KnightScience who has a bunch of top 10 lists): Large, “lost,” or simply unusual, a bevy of prehistoric beasts were brought to life in National Geographic News’s most popular paleontology stories of the year…
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Top 10 Archaeology Finds of 2009
Read more: Top 10 Archaeology Finds of 2009From National Geographic (hat tip KnightScience): Vampires, pirates, ghost ships, skeletons—if it isn’t Halloween, it can only be one thing: National Geographic News’s annual lineup of our most popular archaeology coverage….
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Why Are the Alps Growing?
Read more: Why Are the Alps Growing?Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker… But why do the mountains grow if not because of plate tectonics?
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Undocumented Volcano
Read more: Undocumented VolcanoScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2009) — South Dakota State University researchers and their colleagues elsewhere in America and in France have found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809. The discovery helps explain the record cold decade from 1810-1819.
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- Mazon Monday #316: Sublepidophloios protuberans
Today, we have Sublepidophloios protuberans, which is a species of lycopsid branch. It’s very common, actually the most common form of lycopsid bark in the Mazon Creek fossil flora.
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| Friday, April 10th | General Meeting – 8:00 PM via Zoom. Jessica Hull will present “Life in the Devonian Period, The Age of Fishes.” |
| Saturday, April 11th | Junior Study Group Meeting – 2:00 PM, in person at the College of DuPage Technical Education Center (TEC) Building – Room 1038A (Map). Katherine Howard will present on Sand and Sediment Collecting. Specifics of this meeting are available from Scott Galloway, 630-670-2591, gallowayscottf@gmail.com. |
| Saturday, April 18th | Paleontology Study Group – 7:30 PM via Zoom and in person at the College of DuPage, TEC, Room 1038B (Map). Keith Robitschek will present “Digging the Marl of the Lance Formation.” |
| Friday, April 24th | MAPS Expo XLVII – Springfield, IL. |
| Saturday, April 25th | MAPS Expo XLVII – Springfield, IL. |
| Sunday, April 26th | MAPS Expo XLVII – Springfield, IL. |
| No meeting this month | Mineralogy Study Group |