Layered salt crystals, colored pink and green from trapped microorganisms. From a layered salt pan in Saline Valley, Calif.
A microbial bloom of living, green Dunaliella algae found within a fluid inclusion in a salt crystal.
Cette veille sismique affiche automatiquement les derniers séismes rapportés par le United States Geological Survey (USGS). Les données sont mises à jour en temps quasi réel à partir du flux officiel.
Camelops minidokae dentary from the Pleistocene of California. Photo by UCMP scientist Pat Holroyd.(UCMP has the largest paleontological collection of any university museum in the world. These well-curated and computerized collections include fossil and modern organisms representing prokaryotes to vertebrates collected from all continents. The Museum serves the University community in various research projects and provides support for instruction at Berkeley and other UC campuses. In addition, the collections are used by paleontologists, biologists and geologists throughout the world)
The death toll from Turkey’s powerful earthquake was nearing 600 on Sunday as hopes faded of finding any more survivors in the rubble. At least 596 people were killed and more than 4,150 injured in the magnitude 7.2 quake that rocked Turkey’s eastern Van province, near the Iranian border, a week ago, Turkish authorities said.