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Moon Origins
24 November 2017 > AstronomySent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5105879/The-moon-s-surface-solid... .... the Moon's surface was a magma ocean - until it solidified. How long did that take? We are
Empty Space
24 November 2017 > AstronomyThe way physicists represent the universe and its history are described in Einstein's equation of general relativity, Newton's universal gravitation, and quantum mechanics. The consensus
Migrations and Climate Change
23 November 2017 > ArchaeologyResearchers are catching up it seems as migrations in the historical past are now being linked to switches in global climate (and tectonic activity) at
Sun Pulses X-rays
23 November 2017 > ElectromagnetismAt https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/22/study-when-the-sun-pulses-x-rays-... ... Electric Universe has been something of a taboo for a number of years at WattsUpWithThat climate blog - but it seems even
Earth Breathes
23 November 2017 > Climate changeAt www.space.com/38844-nasa-satellites-track-breathing-earth.html ... we have a 5 minute NASA video plus a couple of pages of text - sent in by Robert. He pointed out
Kaolin
22 November 2017 > GeologyScientists claim to have created conditions similar to a so called subduction zone. The transport and release of water during subduction processes is thought to
Sand not water
22 November 2017 > AstronomyAt www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php ... and https://phys.org/print430401551.html ... Martian streaks, dark lines on Mars thought to be evidence of sub-surface flowing water are now thought to be
Oumuamua
21 November 2017 > AstronomyAt http://spaceweather.com (November 20th) we have news of another round of solar wind making a rendevous with the Earth in the next few days, coinciding
Expanding Earth - for and against
20 November 2017 > GeologyAt www.xearththeory.com/expanding-earth-theory-debunked/ ... and www.xearththeory.com/ we have two sides of the argument - with links to papers debunking the idea, and opposite, links to papers
Beach Flint
20 November 2017 > ElectromagnetismIn Norfollk (England) there are beaches where the tide has washed away the chalk and left some extraordinary flint formations - see www.geulogy.com/norfolk/beestonbump/flintbackbones-beestonebump.html ...
Bioluminescence
20 November 2017 > ElectromagnetismAt www.geulogy.com ... some interesting points are made. It purports to be the study of geology in an electric universe. Mini craters found all over
Antarctic Forest
16 November 2017 > GeologyAt www.livescience.com/60944-ancient-fossil-forest-discovered-in-antarctica... ... a forest that seems to have been fossilised (growing wood turned to stone) at the end of Permian event has been discovered
Salt Pond
16 November 2017 > GeologyResearch in the Transantarctica Mountains has also thrown up another geological oddity - a pond with one of the saltiest bodies of water on the
Ceres
16 November 2017 > AstronomyThe DAWN mission is still throwing up info - see https://phys.org/print429466672.html ... a study in Geophysical Research Letters analysed surface features on Ceres in order
Climate Conference keeping warm on fossil fuels
15 November 2017 > Climate changeAt https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/how-green-deleg... ... which takes us to a an investigative journalist who discovered the current Global Warming conference in Bonn (but hosted by Fiji) uses
A Bend in the Pacific
15 November 2017 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/print429517702.html ... Hawaii sits at the end of a chain of volcanoes running across the Pacific ocean floor. In the middle of this chain
Chicxulub and Cordillera
15 November 2017 > CatastrophismResearchers extracted cores from the Chicxulub crater recently - see www.livescience.com/56914-dino-killing-asteroid-may-have-punctured-earth... ... It measures 110 miles across (180km) and is situated in Mexico's Yucatan peninsular.
Wine
15 November 2017 > ArchaeologyAt www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/13/evidence-of-worlds-earliest-wine... ... the Guardian wine drinking metropolitan set are pleased to learn that clay pottery dating back 8000 years bear the tell tale traces
Tall el-Hammam Update
15 November 2017 > ArchaeologyThe newsletter of TeHPO (the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project) for 14th November 2017. Four senior members of TeHEP are attending the annual meeting of the
Recent Warming
15 November 2017 > Climate changeAt http://notrickszone.com/2017/11/09/new-paper-most-modern-warming-includi... ... a new paper claims that two thirds of climate warming since 1750 is due to solar causes - not what the doom