Quaternary Dating Methods

I've decided to share some useful e-books, they're mainly downloaded from gigapedia, or any other geoblogs. Give them a shot.-Warezciyim ezelden-

Quaternary Dating Methods

Links of the Month - II

Links of the month part II, i think, i'll never gonna post something else than the links.

General Geology

All quiet on the Alpine Fault: http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2010/09/all-quiet-on-the-alpine-fault/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=all-quiet-on-the-alpine-fault

Water in Earth's Mantle Key to Survival of Oldest Continents http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100902131742.htm

About dinasour extinction -again and again...http://www.geojunk.com/geographic-topics/disasters-a-hazards/11673-double-meteorite-strike-caused-dinosaur-extinction

The fault that made a mountain range by highly allocthonous: http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2010/09/the-fault-that-made-a-mountain-range/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fault-that-made-a-mountain-range


New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended - science daily sucks anyway- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908132214.htm

Historical Geology

First definitions of Dolomites http://historyofgeology.blogspot.com/2010/08/dolomite-mountains-and-dolomite-problem.html

World's first? paleobiologist Baron Nopcsa's life: http://historyofgeology.blogspot.com/2010/09/baron-nopcsa-more-than-just.html

Roots of ichnology : http://historyofgeology.blogspot.com/2010/09/following-tracks-of-ichnology.html


Structural Geology

Tectonics of the M7 earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2010/09/tectonics-of-the-m7-earthquake-near-christchurch-new-zealand/

Geophysics - Field Geology

Good article about drilling and paleomagnetism : http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/drilling-what-why-how/

Field Photos

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/friday-field-photo-124-unconformity-at-point-reyes/

Links of the Month - I

I decided to share original topics month by month. I usually keen on metamorphic petrology because of my study area- but not much can be found in blogsphere about metamorphism-. So the good ones:


General Geology

Signs of Primitive Mantle From Canadian Gneiss Dated 4.28 BA http://geology.about.com/b/2010/08/11/signs-of-primitiv-mantle.htm

and paper about this topic from Nature :: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7308/full/nature09287.html

Gondwana Supercontinent Underwent Massive Shift During Cambrian Explosion
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100810163456.htm

Racetrack Playa's Sliding Rocks -* highly recommended *-

http://geology.com/nasa/racetrack-playa/


Structural Geology / Microtectonics

Mountain Beltway's Callan Bentley talks about Purgatory Conglomerate with good photos and sketches- excellent blog by the way (especially for structural geologists )

http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/purgatory-conglomerate/

And Bently's M.Sc. thesis, you can download it HERE::

An Atlas of Pressure Dissolution Features by L. Bruce Railsback

http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/PDFindex1.html

Rocks of Glacier National Park, USA by Callen Bantley

http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/rocks-of-glacier-national-park/

Good animated gif about tension gashes by Callen Bantley again.

http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/tipping-your-tension-gash/

Paleontology

A 48-million-year-old fossilised leaf has revealed the oldest known evidence of a macabre part of nature -- parasites taking control of their hosts to turn them into zombies.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100818105730.htm


Snowball Earth no problem for sponges?*

http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2010/08/snowball-earth-no-problem-for-sponges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=snowball-earth-no-problem-for-sponges

Animals in the Cryogenian? (related with sponge issue)

http://geology.about.com/b/2010/08/18/animals-in-the-cryogenian.htm


Volcanism

Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes

http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2010/08/yellowstone-what-lies-beneath/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yellowstone-what-lies-beneath

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