cryology and co.

An active superimpose a relict rock glacier in the Tofane mountain group (South-East Dolomites 46°32``0`N 12°3``0E):Fig.1...

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The principle behind the system of the "Cold War" is simple: you have to possess a weapon stronger then your adversary.So it's no wonder when governments all over the world are secretly constructing weapons with alien technology - or at least that is what the conspiracy fanatics all over the...

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The papers submitted by C. Darwin to the Geological Society are available online Darwin´s Papers:C. Darwin 'On the Transportal of Erratic Boulders from a lower to a higher level'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society...

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The german edition of the "National Geographic" magazine got an interesting cover story in the march issue: "The Dolomite Mountains - The stony heart of the earth."Fig.1. Cover of National Geographic DeutschlandFig.2. The peaks of Cisles...

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A landslide near the village of Leisach (East-Tyrol, Austria;46°48`36`` N / 12°45`02`` E), occured in the night between the 19. and 20. february, has dammed up the river Drau and buried the street and trainrails between Italy and Austria. The landslide is 100m wide and 10m...

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Fig.1. The Maierato-landslide today. LINK and LINK2...

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Landslide in Calabria (South-Italy), village of Maierato - 15.02.2010:Further informations will be aviable soon:UPDATE: Map of MAIERATO with preliminary risk zonation and delimination of landslides...

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The ice ages on Earth could be influenced by CO2 levels differently than previously believed. The study of speleotherms in the cave of Vallgornera situated on the Spanish island of Mallorca revealed that the polar caps were as small as today 81,000 years ago - despite lower CO2 levels.A team...

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What if climate change is the greatest hoax ever archieved:from Atheist Movies...

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Snow across Great Britain... anyway - Europe is still inhabited......

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On images of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter -MRO- a british research team has discovered possible "spillway" of ancient martian lakes.The pits in the equatorial region of Ares Vallis were first explained as remains of evaporating water ice, but the discovered channels seems to connect different basins, much more like thermokarst-...

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The cause(s) of the Pleistocene Megafauna extinction is(are) still unclear. Various explanations were proposed, ranging from human activity (hunting or disease spreading) to climate change or sea level rise, and since the last year, a possible extraterrestrial impact. But an important factor until now was less considered - volcanism. Volcanoes...

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Carl Sagan Reflects:...

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A national science foundation is a public organization with the task to perform and promote research activities and scientific knowledge and its applications in our daily live.If you had to promote earth science and biology, what would you do?Would you finance the conservation of one of the largest dinosaur ichnosites...

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Methods for dating mass-movement events earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other geological hazards comprise a wide range of methods, historic, radiometric, stratigraphic and biological. For example Carbon-14 dating, applicable when the moving mass incorporated vegetation, or other radioactive elements that decay with time, surface dating of freshly exposed boulders by cosmogenic...

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The modern tale "Homchen - ein Tiermärchen aus der oberen Kreidezeit" (Homchen - An Animal Fable from the Upper Cretaceous), was published in 1902 by the German author Kurd Laßwitz (1848-1919), considered a founder of the German science-fiction movement.Homchen is a highly evolved marsupial of the Kala-tribe, living in a...

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Source: Project Cryosat and Cryosat-2The ice in the polar regions play a crucial role in earths climate, but the quantification of the ice and measuring it's change trough time is difficult.Satellite images provide a good tool to determinate the area, but the thickness can only measured on single...

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An abstract still evolving......

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"I had no idea at the time, to what kind of animal these remains belonged".C. Darwin 1839During the first two years of his voyage aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin collected a considerable number of fossil mammals from various localities in Argentina and Uruguay. He recovered his first fossils at Punta...

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"dal letame nascono i fiordai diamanti non nasce niente"From dung flowers are born From diamonds nothing comes"Via del Campo", Fabrizio de André (Italian poet-musician)Until 20.000 years ago North America showed a biodiversity of large mammals comparable with modern Africa, if not greater. 10.000 years later 34 genera with animal-species weighing...

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Islands seem to have own rules concerning evolution, forming unusual animals like dwarfing elephants and gigantic rats. But islands are in fact unusual habitats with limited resources and so available energy. To survive special adaptations are necessary to economize this energy. Ectotherm vertebrates, like reptiles, are specialists in coping with...

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During the voyage of the Beagle, (just) one (other) of the puzzling observations by Charles Darwin was the presence of a large canid on the remote Falkland Islands - as only native mammal species. On the two islands, Darwin recognized differences between the East Falkland and West Falkland wolves (Dusicyon...

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How Creationist 'Origin' Distorts Darwinby Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D.Ray Comfort and I agree that "science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted." We agree that it would be nice for students to get a free copy of Darwins best-known book, On the Origin of Species. I'll even...

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NASA has put online a website to dismiss the predictions about the end of the world as we known it in December 2012. Doomsday scenarios comprise planets that hit earth, polar shift theory and as the last, but not least, the meteor of doom.But when the (false) prophets claiming...

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It's seems that Geo-Art is spreading trough the Geoblogosphere. Here a short cartoon proving finally why the dinosaurs got extinct, and mammals get the victory gesture - seen in the legendary diary hold in the small inn in the Gubbio gorge (Umbria - Italy) with the infamous C/T iridium...

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