{"id":3588,"date":"2010-02-07T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/02\/stuff-i-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-7\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:30:00","slug":"stuff-i-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/02\/stuff-i-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/span>Google Maps alphabets
\nhttp:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/picture-galleries\/5757548\/The-Google-Maps-alphabet-UK-an-A-to-Z-of-the-British-Isles.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/picturegalleries\/howaboutthat\/5214494\/Rhett-Dashwoods-Google-Maps-alphabet.html<\/a>
\nNOVA Geoblog reviews "Reading the Rocks" by Marcia Bjornerud [adding to Amazon wish list in 3..2..]
\nhttp:\/\/nvcc.edu\/home\/cbentley\/geoblog\/2010\/02\/reading-rocks-by-marcia-bjornerud.html<\/a>
\n(via @Geoblogfeed<\/a>)
\nMore geotagging propaganda:
\nhttp:\/\/geofroth.org\/?p=475<\/a>
\n[You can do things like this<\/a>
\n(via @drjerque<\/a>)
\nThe Other California: Be a Geotripper Geoblogger for a Day! Crowd-sourced geoblogging!
\nhttp:\/\/geotripper.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/other-california-be-geotripper.html<\/a>
\n(via @Geoblogfeed<\/a>)
\nShell’s David Hone on iPad vs CRU pseudoscandal: We love tech, but science not so much…
\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ydssrnh<\/a>
\n(via @mtobis<\/a>, @EnergyCollectiv<\/a>)
\nIcy volcanic breccia [as in, ice clasts WITHIN volcanic breccia…]
\nhttp:\/\/nvcc.edu\/home\/cbentley\/geoblog\/2010\/02\/icy-volcanic-breccia.html<\/a>
\n(via @Geoblogfeed<\/a>)
\nRenaissance of Technicolor dinosaurs continues. Last week’s researchers were "in the Stone Age".
\nhttp:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/02\/the_renaissance_of_technicolour_dinosaurs_continues_and_the.php<\/a>
\n(via @edyong209<\/a>)
\nNew maps of Pluto! Best until New Horizons within 6 months of 2015 flyby
\nhttp:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/hubble\/science\/pluto-20100204.html<\/a>
\n(via @elakdawalla<\/a>, @plutokiller<\/a>)
\nHow can we bridge between geologic and human timescales to help avert disaster? Read AGU’s Haiti blog:
\nhttp:\/\/www.agu.org\/blog\/Haiti\/?p=48<\/a>
\n(via @theAGU<\/a>)
\nFree access to AGU papers on Caribbean plate for a limited time.
\nhttp:\/\/www.agu.org\/news\/archives\/2010-02-02_CarribeanPlatePapers.shtml<\/a>
\n(via @theAGU<\/a>)
\nOK, that’s pretty darn cool : Termite Mounds from Space: Myrmecos Blog.
\nhttp:\/\/myrmecos.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/04\/finding-termites-on-google-earth\/<\/a>
\nMust-red Eureka column on science and journalistic balance by @markgfh<\/a>.
\nhttp:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/science\/eureka\/article7011355.ece<\/a>
\nWhy the denial camp is winning (and we’re all losing) the climate wars.
\nhttp:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/islandofdoubt\/2010\/02\/why_the_denial_camp_is_winning.php?utm_source=selectfeed&utm_medium=rss<\/a>
\n(via @ScienceBlogs<\/a>)
\nSearching for Africa’s Last Glaciers in the Mountains of the Moon, Uganda.
\nhttp:\/\/www.e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2237<\/a>
\n(via @highlyanne<\/a>, @YaleE360<\/a>)
\nCool, if small, picture: Fukutokuoka no Ba Undersea Volcano Erupts.
\nhttp:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/mdnnews\/news\/20100204p2a00m0na017000c.html<\/a>
\n(via @GeologyDotCom<\/a>)
\nSome nice photos of dikes that fed Deccan flood basalts, India.
\nhttp:\/\/suvratk.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/plumbing-beneath-deccan-volcanic.html<\/a>
\nExcellent post at Eruptions setting recent Yellowstone eq swarm in context. All structure, no magma.
\nhttp:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/eruptions\/2010\/02\/the_structure_of_calderas.php<\/a>
\nTo end this week’s space budget discussions on a cheerier note: Cassini Mission extended until 2017. Huzzah!
\nhttp:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/whycassini\/cassini-20100203.html<\/a>
\nEdiacaran animal trails? Evidence of ‘anemone-like’ movement in 565 Myr rocks from Newfoundland
\nhttp:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100203085914.htm<\/a>
\n(via @geosociety<\/a>)
\nSingle-celled organism grows into ‘monstrous beach ball’ 20 cm diameter. A single cell!
\nhttp:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18468-zoologger-living-beach-ball-is-worlds-largest-cell.html<\/a>
\n(via @rowanNS<\/a>)
\nWind abraded ventifacts on Mars and Earth: IAG Planetary Geomorph image of the month.
\nhttp:\/\/www.psi.edu\/pgwg\/images\/feb10image.html<\/a>
\n(via @highlyanne<\/a>)
\nWow. Another incredible Hubble image… of an asteroid collision in space!
\nhttp:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/02\/02\/hubble-captures-picture-of-asteroid-collision\/<\/a>
\n(via @DiscoverMag<\/a>, @BadAstronomer<\/a>)
\nAirborne Radar Image of Post-Quake Haiti . Some interesting background: 40km fault rupture, propogating W from epicentre.
\nhttp:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2010-037<\/a>
\nIf civilisation collapses, how much of our knowledge would future humans be able to retrieve? Not much…
\nhttp:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20527451.300-digital-doomsday-the-end-of-knowledge.html<\/a>
\n(via @rowanNS<\/a>)
\nSuch an important point: Writers are Made not Born
\nhttp:\/\/serc.carleton.edu\/earthandmind\/posts\/born.html<\/a>
\nSimulations suggest rocky Earth-mass worlds could have formed in Alpha Centauri binary system. But in what orbits?
\nhttp:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18451-what-alien-worlds-orbit-our-nearest-star.html<\/a>
\nChemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids (w\/video). Wonder if this relevant for core\/mantle?
\nhttp:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/01\/self-stirring-liquids\/<\/a>
\n(via @ScienceSoWhat<\/a>)
\nSomething rotten in the state of palaeontology. Decay removes acquired characters first. Interesting!
\nhttp:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100131\/full\/news.2010.45.html\/<\/a> [subscription only]
\n(via @NatureNews<\/a>)
\nOnline gallery for geology & art exhibit. Interesting, wish was more description of pieces.
\nhttp:\/\/www.twowallgallery.com\/geosapiens.html<\/a>
\n(via @clasticdetritus<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last seven days’ worth of links I though worth sharing.
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