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GeoBlogy: Data4Sustain - a webGIS renewable energy feasibility tool funded by Innovate UK...by Darren Beriro
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Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Data4Sustain - a webGIS renewable energy feasibility tool funded by Innovate UK.by Darren Beriro. Staff in Environmental Modelling and Informatics. Were working to develop a new project called Data4Sustain. After a number of long days and excellent work by the business lead, Land Quality Management. We learned that Data4Sustain successfully attracted prestigious funding from UK's Innovation agency, Innovate UK. Solving Urban Challenges with Data – Feasibility Studies. Who have e...
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GeoBlogy: Chromium in crops... by Elliott Hamilton
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Wednesday, 20 May 2015. Chromium in crops. by Elliott Hamilton. Elliott Hamilton (right) sampling with partners from CBU and ZARI. In November 2014, barely a month into my part-time PhD, I visited Africa for the first time with Michael Watts and Murray Lark to undertake fieldwork in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. Chromium exists in the environment as trivalent (Cr(III) and hexavalent (Cr(VI) forms. Cr(III) plays a role in the metabolism of carbohydrate, fat and protein. Cr(VI) is released prima...As a ...
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GeoBlogy: Do a few sand grains reveal the 'lost' mid-Cretaceous deserts of North Africa?...by Andy Newell
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Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Do a few sand grains reveal the 'lost' mid-Cretaceous deserts of North Africa? Quartz grain imaged by a scanning electron microscope. Geologists at work in the Sahara desert of central Algeria. Our work at Krechba (In Salah) in central Algeria (see map) has clearly shown the existence of ancient rivers in the Lower Cretaceous Continental Intercalaire. Map of the study area, Krechba (In Salah) in central Algeria. 3D seismic images showing the sinuous river channels. Further detail...
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GeoBlogy: Dinosaurs and disasters: a summer of pseudo-science...by Kirstin Lemon
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Friday, 31 July 2015. Dinosaurs and disasters: a summer of pseudo-science.by Kirstin Lemon. Real earthquake damage in Oakland, California. So what about the science; is any of this actually possible? Aw, how cute) and of course the dinosaur that everyone loves to hate, the Velociraptor. It is also revealed that the Jurassic World scientists have been breeding genetically-engineered dinosaurs who of course turn out to be lethal and wreak havoc on the park. Artists impression of a Velociraptor. So the gene...
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections: December 2014
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections. Friday, 5 December 2014. On the manufacture of gun-flints, Memoir of the Geological Survey 1879. The memoir is a regarded as a classic by modern day flint knappers. Illustration showing knappers at work. Flint was mined from chalk pits, each pit lasting from six to nine months. The miners sold the flints to the flint knappers by the 'jag' which is one cart-load about equal to a ton. To manufacture the gun-flints there were four processes:. Knapping - The fin...
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections: October 2014
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections. Monday, 20 October 2014. English churches - building stones. BGS Image ID: P209976. BGS Image ID: P210728. BGS Image ID: P210855. Posted by Bob McIntosh. Devon Holy Trinity Church. Tuesday, 7 October 2014. BGS maps portal — maps and sections 1832 to 2014. Sheet 10 [Isle of Wight, Lyrnington, part of Portsmouth Harbour.] Geological Survey of England and Wales Old Series. 1:63,360. 1856. Posted by Bob McIntosh. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The BGS has had a lon...
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections: Odd rocks of the Scilly Isles
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections. Sunday, 15 March 2015. Odd rocks of the Scilly Isles. BGS Image ID: P241716. The 'Loaded Camel' St. Mary's. BGS Image ID: P241720. The 'Nag's Head' St. Agnes. BGS Image ID: P241717. The 'Punch bowl' St Agnes. A series of photographs taken by R.H. Preston illustrating weathering of granite. The photographs were donated to the British Association for the Advancement of Science Collection. Photographs are dated 1895. See also 'The Drum Rock'. Help us to Help You.
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections: July 2015
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections. Sunday, 26 July 2015. Brora coal pit, Sutherland, 1899. Photograph by Robert Lunn, 1899. Posted by Bob McIntosh. Friday, 17 July 2015. Oblique aerial view of Craigielaw Point, Aberlady. East Lothian. BGS Image ID: P000795. Posted by Bob McIntosh. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Communicating scientific heritage in BGS through images and the written word. Brora coal pit, Sutherland, 1899. Oblique aerial view of Craigielaw Point, Aberlady. GeoBlogy - from Lauren.
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections: April 2015
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections. Sunday, 19 April 2015. BGS Image ID: P023985. Easton, Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd., Portland. General view of mason's workshop in Portland Stone works. Works of Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd. 1930. BGS Image ID: P204941. BGS Image ID: P204947. BGS Image ID: P204950. Easton, Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd., Portland. Travelling crane lifting block of masonry in Portland Stone. Works of Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd. BGS Image ID: P204951.
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections: June 2015
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BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections. Saturday, 20 June 2015. Coe's Chalk-pit, Bramford, Suffolk 1925. BGS Image ID: P202970. Coe's Chalk-pit, Bramford, Suffolk, 1 1/4 m. N. of railway-station. Looking E. General view of pit. The succession shown is quadratus. Chalk (uppermost 30 ft.), Thanet Beds, Reading Beds, Red Crag (? Posted by Bob McIntosh. Tuesday, 2 June 2015. Agglomerate, Mortonhall Quarry. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Coes Chalk-pit, Bramford, Suffolk 1925. GeoBlogy - from Lauren.
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