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Self-shielding of thermal radiation by Chicxulub impact ejecta: Firestorm or fizzle?
December 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.12, p.1135-1138
models some of the thermal effects of the Chicxulub impact
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How do prokaryotes survive in fluid inclusions in halite for 30 k.y.?
December 1, 2009 Geology, v.37, n.12, p.1059-1062
Case of survival of bacteria in halite for a long time period. DNA repair is mentioned as the most important element to assure long survival, demonstrating that DNA decay is really something difficult to avoid.
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Self-organized criticality in river basins: Challenging sedimentary records of environmental change
January 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.1, p.87-90
river basins are not predictable systems and their discharge cannot be related to external factors like rainfall
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Paleozoic vegetation and the Siluro-Devonian rise of fluvial lateral accretion sets
January 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.1, p.51-54
a database of fluvial deposits in the Lower Paleozoic contrary to the idea of some that all Lower Paleozoic is marine
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The missing link in the evolutionary origin of the foraminiferal genus Hantkenina and the problem of the lower-middle Eocene boundary
January 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.1, p.23-26
a possible example of microevolution with gradual morphological transition in the stratigraphic record and also an example of how biostratigraphic schemes are often revised and refined
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How wet was the Arctic Eocene rain forest? Estimates of precipitation from Paleogene Arctic macrofloras
January 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.1, p.15-18
warm climate scenarios in the Eocene with forests in the Arctic
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Early Neoproterozoic scale microfossils in the Lower Tindir Group of Alaska and the Yukon Territory
February 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.2, p.143-146
This article does not focus on the microfossils but on the dating of the sediments containing them. It confirms through chemostratigraphy that they are early Neoproterozoic, so they could be used for early evidence
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First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland
February 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.2, p.123-126
evidence of locomotion traces from the Ediacara fauna could help to support the view that Ediacara fauna was made up of animals
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Did the Late Ordovician African ice sheet reach Europe?
March 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.3, p.279-282
evidence for the Ordovician glaciation and its extent
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Syncollisional rapid granitic magma formation in an arc-arc collision zone: Evidence from the Tanzawa plutonic complex, Japan
March 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.3, p.215-218
example of rapid granitic magma cooling, i.e., about 600 degrees in 1 Ma
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Grain size of Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary sediments from Chicxulub to the open ocean: Implications for interpretation of the mass extinction event
March 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.3, p.199-202
Change in grain size points to resedimentation near the impact. Therefore, biostratigraphic data from sections near the impact are not good: they can be reworked. This paper supports the link between impact and ext
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Nurse logs: An ecological strategy in a late Paleozoic forest from the southern Andean region
April 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.4, p.295-298
Report on fossil trunks, some in life position, intercalated between volcanic rocks and deposited in flooded environments (probably coastal lagoons). Only one tree species was present in this forest.
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Correlating the end-Triassic mass extinction and flood basalt volcanism at the 100 ka level
May 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.5, p.387-390
very precise ages, consistent from different localities, provide an excellent example of correlation between different lines of evidence, establishing a correlation in time between CAMP and extinction
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Normalized velocity profiles of field-measured turbidity currents
June 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.6, p.563-566
real measurements of turbidity currents in submarine canyons finds that lab models based on small-scale experiments are consistent with real large-scale situations
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Cambrian origin of all skeletalized metazoan phyla--Discovery of Earth's oldest bryozoans (Upper Cambrian, southern Mexico)
June 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.6, p.547-550
bryozoans appeared in late Cambrian
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Middle Cambrian echinoderms from north Spain show echinoderms diversified earlier in Gondwana
June 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.6 p.507-510
in mid-Cambrian there is already a high diversity of echinoderms indicating an explosion and differentiation of this group in a short time
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Can we distinguish flood frequency and magnitude in the sedimentological record of rivers?
July 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.7, p.579-582
in river channels, the depositional imprint of a high flood event is not different than and cannot be distinguished from uniformitarian river channel processes
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Rapid Early Cambrian rotation of Gondwana
August 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.8, p.755-758
"Rapid motion" means 50 My for 60 degrees of latitude. True polar wander implies some non uniformitarian aspects of plate tectonics.
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Paraná flood basalts: Rapid extrusion hypothesis confirmed by new 40Ar/39Ar results
August 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.8, p.747-750
Dates the same samples previously used to establish a long duration for the Parana igneous province and comes to the conclusion that its duration was in fact short (less than 1 My). This LIP is anomalous because it
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Priapulid worms: Pioneer horizontal burrowers at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary
August 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.8, p.711-714
analyzes the feeding behavior of modern priapulid worms and finds that traces produced by them are similar to those ubiquitous in Lower Cambrian (called Treptichnus)
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Two large meteorite impacts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
September 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.9, p.835-838
shows the establishment of a lake in an impact crater with development of vegetation in the lake and supports the view that the K-Pg boundary witnessed an asteriod shower
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A new Burgess Shale-type assemblage from the “thin” Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies
September 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.9, p.811-814
Reports nice specimens, including anomalocarids and sponges. These fossiliferous levels are also interpreted as event beds, even though no escarpment is evident as in the traditional reconstruction for Burgess shal
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Relationship between mass extinction and iridium across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in New Jersey
October 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.10, p.867-870
reaffirms the connection between the K-Pg iridium anomaly and extinction
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Mass failures associated with the passage of a large tropical cyclone over the Swatch of No Ground submarine canyon (Bay of Bengal)
November 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.11, p.1051-1054
documents the effects of a modern cyclone on shelf deposits in causing failure, fluid movement, soft sediment deformation, and sediment transport
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Manganese stromatolites in caves: El Soplao (Cantabria, Spain)
December 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.12, p.1119-1122
interesting example of biogenic stromatolites preserving numerous microbes in their fabric
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Rainforest collapse triggered Carboniferous tetrapod diversification in Euramerica
December 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.12, p.1079-1082
a collapse of the Carboniferous rain forest biome is associated with coeval variation in fossil tetrapods
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Sea ice-free conditions during the Sturtian glaciation (early Cryogenian), South Australia
January 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.1, p.31-34
in discussing the “snowball earth” hypothesis most of the deposits interpreted as glacial are resedimented in submarine conditions
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Direct U-Pb dating of Cretaceous and Paleocene dinosaur bones, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
February 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.2, p.159-162
dates directly from dinosaur bones support the view that the dated bones are from the Paleocene, showing that dinosaurs survived across the K-Pg boundary
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Life in the deep subsurface
March 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.3, p.287-288
Review of the state of the art in understanding the deep biosphere. It appears more relevant and diverse than thought even just 30 years ago. These microorganisms show resistance to extreme conditions and ability t
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The Chicxulub ejecta deposit at Demerara Rise (western Atlantic): Dissecting the geochemical anomaly using laser ablation-mass spectrometry
March 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.3, p.279-282
the ejecta deposit and some of the processes which characterized the impact
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Stratigraphic distribution of marine fossils in North America
March 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.3, p.259-262
macroevolution, particularly genus extinction, and large-scale patterns of sedimentation share a common set of forcing mechanisms that are related to the formation and destruction of shallow-marine habitats
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Molecular signature of chitin-protein complex in Paleozoic arthropods
March 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.3, p.255-258
example of preservation of organic molecules for more than 300 Ma
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Pennsylvanian coniferopsid forests in sabkha facies reveal the nature of seasonal tropical biome
April 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.4, p.371-374
example of a Carboniferous in situ fossil forest with trees showing tree rings
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Infaunal molting in Trilobita and escalatory responses against predation
May 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.5, p.495-498
evidence of infaunal behavior of trilobites and infers that this is a defensive strategy documenting predator-prey interaction
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Belemnite extinction and the origin of modern cephalopods 35 m.y. prior to the Cretaceous-Paleogene event
May 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.5, p.483-486
belemnites went extinct much earlier than the K-Pg boundary in the North Pacific, and were replaced by modern cephalopods that radiated in other regions after the K-Pg boundary
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Early Cambrian metazoans in fluvial environments, evidence of the non-marine Cambrian radiation
June 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.6, p.583-586
documents the occurrence of bioturbation in early Cambrian fluvial deposits, inferring the existence of freshwater metazoans, thus adding a land dimension to the Cambrian explosion
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Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists
June 1, 2011 Geology, v.39, n.6, p.539-542
nice specimens of microfossils in Precambrian deposits, tridimensional and well ornamented
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Incredible Small Creatures That Deny Evolution
November 19, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Former evolutionist Paul Frank discusses Creation/Evolution debate Nov. 29, 2011
November 22, 2011 Brookfield NOW (Wisconsin)
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Background on David Coppedge and the Lawsuit Against NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
November 23, 2011 Discovery Institute
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Is water the secret of the dinosaur death pose?
November 23, 2011 New Scientist, n.2840, p.12
Dinosaur skeletons are often found with head thrown back and tail arched. This may simply be because they have been immersed in water.
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Ultimate guide to the multiverse
November 23, 2011 New Scientist, n.2840, p.42-47
infinite Earths, bubble universes, simulated realities: everything you need to know about the most mind-boggling idea of all
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Neutrinos and multiverses: a new cosmology beckons
November 23, 2011 New Scientist, n.2840, p.3
you wait decades for discoveries that could revolutionise physics, then three come along at once
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Palaeoanthropology: The earliest modern humans in Europe
November 24, 2011 Nature, v.479, p.483-485
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Moth fossils show their colours
November 24, 2011 Nature, v.479, p.449
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Ancient environment found to drive marine biodiversity
November 24, 2011 EurekAlert!
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Life began with a planetary mega-organism
November 25, 2011 New Scientist, n.2840, p.8-9
the Last Universal Common Ancestor may have filled the planet's oceans before giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today
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What Does the Bible Say About Creation and Evolution?
November 25, 2011 Huffington Post
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The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals
November 25, 2011 Science, v.334, n.6059, p.1091-1097
major animal clades evolved tens of millions of years before the widespread appearance of animal fossils
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Evolutionists Flaunt Falsifying Fossils
November 26, 2011 Creation-Evolution Headlines