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Here is a Method of Helping Geologists Get a Map in the Field
Read more: Here is a Method of Helping Geologists Get a Map in the FieldAn IPhone App provides maps for the states of Arizona, California, Texas, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, Florida, Washington/Oregon, with more states to be available.
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Fracturing Rock for Natural Gas
Read more: Fracturing Rock for Natural GasThe debate is on. Can geologists obtain natural gas through fracturing (fracking) without threatening the water supply? FOR: Energy in Depth says yes and provides an informative web site about the geological technologies used. BOTH SIDES: You can hear both sides on last week’s radio show with Diane Rehm, Terry Engelder, Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University; Theo Colborn, environmental health analyst and founder of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange; and Chuck Stanley, chief operating officer, Questar Corporation, a natural gas-focused energy company. AGAINST: Josh Fox’s citizen documentary called WaterUnderAttack and radio interview. CAN YOU DO THIS WITH YOUR TAP WATER?…
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Open Science for Dinosaurs
Read more: Open Science for DinosaursNew site… crowd sourcing is now happening with The Open Dinosaur Project. Anyone can participate. What is crowd sourcing and is it what it seems?
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Highest Mountains
Read more: Highest MountainsGeology.com provides a list of the highest mountains by continent. Photo: Vinson Massif in Antarctica as provided by NASA.
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Everything You Need to Know Periodic Table
Read more: Everything You Need to Know Periodic TableFind out each element’s history, geology, thermochemistry, lattice energies…. with the Association of Applied Geology (AAG) periodic table. Note: you have to click the title, “Periodic Table” on the left to make it appear.
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Now You Can Have an Earth Science Image A Day
Read more: Now You Can Have an Earth Science Image A DayGood for bookmarking: Earth Science Image of the Day. Also, many members have photos that would be great for this site. (Photo: George Higginson)
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National Park Documentary at 10:00 pm on WTTW
Read more: National Park Documentary at 10:00 pm on WTTWIf you didn’t get a chance to watch Ken Burn’s National Park: America’s Best Idea documentary, it is showing on Channel 11, tonight at 10:00 p.m. You can also watch parts of it on-line.
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New Species Announced at SVP
Read more: New Species Announced at SVPScience News via BoingBoing: “BRISTOL, England — A newly described, profusely feathered dinosaur may give lift to scientists’ understanding of bird and flight evolution, researchers report. The lithe creature, which stood about 28 centimeters tall at the hip, is the oldest known to have sported feathers and is estimated to be between 1 million and 11 million years older than Archaeopteryx, the first known bird. Several fossils of the creature, which has been dubbed Anchiornis huxleyi, have been unearthed in northeastern China, Xing Xu reported September 25 at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology…” It’s possible that…
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Torosaurus Challenge
Read more: Torosaurus ChallengeScientific American reports on one of the important papers presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: “A rare horned dinosaur known as Torosaurus may not be a distinct species after all, according to a presentation given Friday at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Bristol, England….” Photo of Triceratops skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History by mrkathika via Flickr
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The Secrets of Geo Mysteries
Read more: The Secrets of Geo MysteriesThe Children’s Museum of Indianapolis offers a website on the secrets of geo mysteries.
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Who Else Wants Interactive Geo Maps?
Read more: Who Else Wants Interactive Geo Maps?Very nice interactive maps from NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC Want more maps? MapWindow
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Where in the Future Are We?
Read more: Where in the Future Are We?ESCONI can now be found on Twitter. Twitter will be used for announcements and enticements and fun. But be reassured, all critical information will always be available on the web site and newsletter. Why? This “Did You Know” video from The Economist talks about the future we live in…
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Now You Can Teach Rocks to Kids
Read more: Now You Can Teach Rocks to KidsNeat educational site… The Rock Cycle
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Little Known Stratigraphy Guide
Read more: Little Known Stratigraphy GuideAn Online Guide to Sequence Stratigraphy: “…This online guide is primarily aimed at the application of sequence stratigraphy to outcrops. As a result, none of the examples deal with topics related specifically to cores, well logs, or most significantly, seismic. Perhaps the best way to work through this online guide is to start with accommodation and to continue down the list of topics from there…”
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This Saturday – 9/26 – Archaeology Study Group – 7:30
Read more: This Saturday – 9/26 – Archaeology Study Group – 7:30This Saturday… “When Did the Alphabet First Appear” by Bryan Nugent and John Good, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage Bldg K Rm 131.
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Metal Detector Finds 7 Figure Stash
Read more: Metal Detector Finds 7 Figure StashVia Birmingham Post: … Estimated to be worth seven figures, the treasure trove is mainly made up of elaborate weapons, helmet decorations, coins and Christian crosses which experts believe were trophies taken from the battlefield by victorious Mercians. It was discovered in a farm field in July by amateur metal detector Terry Herbert who lives alone in a council house on disability benefit, and had never before found anything more valuable than a rare piece of Roman horse harness….
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Identification References
Read more: Identification ReferencesLarson Quarry Fossil Identification and Illinois Geode Collecting Links Dave Carlson’s Larson Quarry Fossil documentIllinois Geode Collecting from the ISGS.
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More Evidence of Dinosaur to Bird
Read more: More Evidence of Dinosaur to BirdVia Scientific American (9/24): … The dinosaur-bird transition has been the subject of debate for more than a century, and some researchers are still arguing that other bird-like dinos are too recent to be the ancestors of birds. The quandary, known in the paleontology field as the temporal paradox, has been dealt another blow by the reassessment of the A. huxleyi, which is dated to about 155 million years old—about 30 million years before the feathered dinosaur Microraptor and about five million years before the oldest known bird, Archaeopteryx. This earlier date for the emergence of feathered dinosaurs…
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Top Geology Colleges
Read more: Top Geology CollegesCollege Crunch web site says they have identified the top 10 colleges for geology. There are many more great college programs for geology beyond these 10 colleges, but it is sort of interesting to look at the list and the writer’s explanations.
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Stunning Views of Glacier from Space
Read more: Stunning Views of Glacier from SpaceStunning views of glaciers from space.
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- Mazon Monday #317: Pohlsepia Revisited — Not an Octopus After All
A new paper “Synchrotron data reveal nautiloid characters inPohlsepia mazonensis, refuting a Palaeozoic origin for octobrachians” in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences refutes the classification of Pohlsepia mazonensis as an octopus and reclassifies it as a soft-bodied nautiloid as Paleocadmus pohli.
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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 |