First Dinosaur Found In Washington State

First Dinosaur Found In Washington State

Why it took so long to find a dinosaur fossil in Washington
state by Stephanie Klein, MyNorthwest.com, May 20, 2015
http://mynorthwest.com/11/2763755/Why-it-took-so-long-to-find-a-dinosaur-fossil-in-Washington-state

Yours,

Paul H.

Gut Bacteria Help Turn Animals Into Fossils

Gut Bacteria Help Turn Animals Into Fossils

Gut bacteria help turn animals into fossils
Science (AAAS) News by David Schultz
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/05/gut-bacteria-help-turn-animals-fossils
http://phys.org/news/2015-05-evidence-soft-tissue-fossilizes.html

The paper is:

Butler, A. D., J. A. Cunningham, G. E. Budd,
and P. C. J. Donoghue, 2015, Experimental
taphonomy of Artemia reveals the role of
endogenous microbes in mediating
decay and fossilization. Proceedings of the
Royal Society B. 282(1808): 20150476.
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0476 Published 13 May 2015
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1808/20150476
https://www.academia.edu/12376794/Experimental_taphonomy_of_Artemia_reveals_the_role_of_endogenous_microbes_in_mediating_decay_and_fossilization

Yours,

Paul H.

Great Lecture About Mantle Plumes And Large Igneous Provinces

Great Lecture About Mantle Plumes And Large Igneous Provinces

This is a great lecture about mantle plumes and
large igneous provinces.

EGU2014: Arthur Holmes Medal Lecture by Kevin
C.A. Burke (ML2) European Geosciences Union
February 3, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMIhUn1oqM

Yours,

Paul H.

Researchers to Drill Chicxulub Crater off the Yucatecan Coast

Researchers to Drill Chicxulub Crater off the Yucatecan Coast

Researchers to drill below the Chicxulub Crater off the
Yucatecan Coast. The Yucatan Times, April 18, 2015
http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2015/04/researchers-to-drill-below-the-chicxulub-crater-off-the-yucatecan-coast/

Researchers To Dig Below Chicxulub Crater To Study
Dinosaur Extinction Event by Brian Thompson.
Daily Science Journal, April 15, 2015
http://dailysciencejournal.com/researchers-to-dig-below-chicxulub-crater-to-study-dinosaur-extinction-event/22319/

Scientists Unveil Cause Of Dinosaur Extinction Through
Chicxulub Asteroid Impact Crater Project In Mexico
by Guenee Abragan, Yibada, April 14, 2015 12:16 AM EDT
http://en.yibada.com/articles/26630/20150414/scientists-unveil-cause-dinosaur-extinction-through-chicxulub-asteroid-impact-crater.htm

Morgan, J. V., S. P. S.Gulick, J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi,
G. S. Collins, L. Perez-Cruz, and M. Rebolledo-Vieyra,
2015, IODP-ICDP Expedition 364: Drilling the K-Pg
Impact Structure. 46th Lunar and Planetary Science
Conference, held March 16-20, 2015 in The Woodlands,
Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1832, p.1747
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/1747.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015LPI....46.1747M

Yous,

Paul H.

Trilobite Court, Diabase Square, Fluvial Terrace and Other Street Names

Trilobite Court, Diabase Square, Fluvial Terrace and Other Street Names

I was Googling “trilobite” yesterday. By some weird logic, I was sent to Aldie / Stone Ridge,
Virginia (20105). There I found streets that are named “Fluvial Terrace,” “Trilobite Court,”
“Diabase Square,” “Apatite Square,” “Quartzite Terrace,” “Feldspar Place,” “Greenstone
Drive,” and “Devonian Drive,” among other street and court names that include geological terms.

I found a “Trilobite Trail” in Fort Worth, Texas; a “Trilobite Trail” outside of Jemez Springs, New
Mexico; and a “Trilobite Trail” outside of Ignacio, Colorado.

Yours,

Paul H

200 years Ago Tambora Erupted and Crashed The World's Climate

200 years Ago Tambora Erupted and Crashed The World's Climate

Volcanoes and climate: After Tambora. Two hundred years ago the most powerful eruption in modern history made itself felt around the world. It could happen again at almost any time. The Economist, April 11, 2015
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21647958-two-hundred-years-ago-most-powerful-eruption-modern-history-made-itself-felt-around

Mount Tambora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora

Yours,

Paul H.

Intermediate Form In The Evolution Of Complex Cells Found in Arctic Ocean

Intermediate Form In The Evolution Of Complex Cells Found in Arctic Ocean

Missing Link Microbes May Help Explain How
Single Cells Became Us. All Things Considered.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/05/06/404199792/missing-link-microbes-may-help-explain-how-single-cells-became-us

Researchers discover missing link in the evolution
of complex cells, May 6, 2015
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/uu-rdm050415.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/91201.php

Under the Sea, a Missing Link in the Evolution of
Complex Cells, New York Times, Carl Zimmer,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/science/under-the-sea-a-missing-link-in-the-evolution-of-complex-cells.html?_r=0

Spang, A., J. H. Saw, S. L. Jørgensen, K. Zaremba-
Niedzwiedzka, J. Martijn, A. E. Lind, R. van Eijk,
C. Schleper, L. Guy, and T. J. G. Ettema, 2015,
Complex archaea that bridge the gap between
prokaryotes and eukaryotes, Nature (2015) doi:10.1038/nature14447
Published online 06 May 2015
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14447.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Did dinosaur-killing asteroid trigger largest lava flows on Earth? - Deccan, India.

Did dinosaur-killing asteroid trigger largest lava flows on Earth? - Deccan, India.

Did dinosaur-killing asteroid trigger largest lava flows on Earth?
by Robert Sanders, University of California, April 30, 2015
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/04/30/did-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-trigger-largest-lava-flows-on-earth/

Richards, M. A., W. Alvarez, S. Self, L. Karlstrom, P. R. Renne,
M. Manga, C. J. Sprain, J. Smit, L. Vanderkluysen, and S. A.
Gibson, 2015, Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the
Chicxulub impact. Geological society of America Bulletin.
First published online April 30, 2015, doi: 10.1130/B31167.1
http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/04/30/B31167.1.abstract
http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/04/30/B31167.1.full.pdf+html

Yours,

Paul H.