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Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Beth Bartel and Tim Dittman, from the non-profit UNAVCO consortium in Boulder, Colorado.

About 18 miles west of the Yellowstone National Park boundary in Idaho, UNAVCO field engineer Tom Lyman surveys the damage at GPS station P361 on Sawtell Peak. This is an important site, not only because it is located close to active faults in the Yellowstone region, but also because it serves as a data relay for four additional nearby GPS stations. None of the GPS equipment is transmitting data.

UNAVCO, a member of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory consortium, is responsible for maintaining the deformation network in and around Yellowstone. In Yellowstone National Park alone this network includes 14 GPS stations and six borehole geophysics stations. All the data are free and open access.

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The oldest clue of animal life, dating back at least 100 million years before the Cambrian period, when most major types of animals appear, has been found by University of California, Riverside (UCR) researchers.

The researchers have been tracking molecular signs of animal life, called biomarkers, as far back as 660–635 million years ago during the Neoproterozoic Era. They found a steroid compound produced only by sponges, which are among the earliest forms of animal life, in ancient rocks and oils from Oman, Siberia, and India.

The biomarker identified, a steroid compound named 26-methylstigmastane (26-mes), has a unique structure that is currently only known to be synthesized by certain species of modern sponges called demosponges.

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Whether they’ll ever be able to unearth it from a vast complex of at least seven dome-shaped burial mounds remains to be seen.

This is an issue that we cannot simply stand back and do nothing. This Social Media Purge is beneath Western Civilization and we have the power to stop it.

The WaPo hit piece in question: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washing…escription

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The cosmic records we have are meant to be broken, but oh, have we ever gone so far.

“Back To the Future” fans will swoon over this ‘DeLorean’ hovercraft. 🆒.

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck an area 175 miles northwest of the Kurile islands off Russia in the northwest Pacific on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

There was no immediate tsunami warning or any reports of any damage or casualties resulting from the quake, which the USGS said had occurred at a depth of 292 miles.

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I’m cheating.

Found this book. It was written in 1968.

Oh how things change.

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