Sunday, May 15, 2011
How Cough Out Phlegm Baby
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
European Caning Movies
Monday, April 18, 2011
Cell Respiration Due Tom.
Heraclius
ASTUDILLO-POMBO, Dept. Medi Ambient i Ciències del Sol, Universitat de Lleida.
Introduction to the poetry of paleontological reasoning
As we have done before in some other rare occasions, this month we will also address an issue that is quite atypical, mostly because of its rarity usual. It is, as you could have inferred from the title of this post, to return to show some poems that, contrary to what is often customary, in the world of poetry, come to show as before, that poetry and paleontology are not incompatible.
Extreme rarity of this particular poetic theme naturalist possibly be because fossilization is a very rare and very localized and therefore infrequent contact, while other types of natural phenomena and everyday life are much more ubiquitous, why there are many more people who write or read poetry, which have experienced intense emotions and deep in experience related to the contemplation of landscape, natural or perticulares humanized or aspects thereof, such as the sky, terrain, sea, vegetation, some species of flora or fauna, or even artifacts of civilization that dot the landscape or make disappear the nature of the eye of the beholder. Therefore, it seems quite normal that very few writers and readers of poetry, are truly and deeply touched, while practicing paleontology activities or when contemplating a fossil extaordinario, for their aesthetic beauty, rarity biological or scientific importance mythical meaning. The only poet of our cultural environment, I know who has dedicated a full book of poems is fossils Clara Janes (Fossils, 1985. Poetry)
The main reason for wanting to return to the literary theme-paleontological , dedicating the April entry, is because this month has a huge literary connotation, because of their relationship and tradition with the literature in all its forms of expression, communication, production and themes.
For many decades, has been held in Europe, coinciding with the day on April 23, including several different types of anniversaries memorials, a tribute to the promotion of reading and book publishing, as well as praise of all forms of literary creation and production.
On the Iberian languages \u200b\u200band poetic production - paleontological
Whenever the occasion collect the paleontological-poetic material, appropriate, has allowed us, we have taken the opportunity that represents the power to have this channel of communication that this section is. So we have shown some poetry, conceived and written in any of the various Iberian languages, which are used for various cultural communities of our peninsula, so far only has been possible to present poetry in Castilian and Catalan, either lack of production and / or dissemination of poetic-paleontological work in other languages \u200b\u200bor because our ability to understand non-Romance languages \u200b\u200band their extreme opacity, for a person of another cultural community, prevented us able to detect even one poem of paleontological reasoning in this language peninsular, this is the case heuskara and effect unless I euskaldun, but everything is hopeless ... when the person knows and can, want to collaborate. That is, if anyone knows some paleontological poetic productions, written in any English, we would be very grateful if you would like to send us this poetic material.
As a person trained in the life sciences, earth and cultural anthropology, I think the environmental diversity, including biodiversity, geodiversity and cultural diversity, are rich social and human heritage, common, and as such should be considered by society, including political parties and managed by public administration and not as an abnormality, to suppress a formidable threat that endangers the homogeneity and unity of the country or simply as a curiosity or oddity must be musealised folkloric and as soon as possible, for the benefit of tourism. Therefore, we believe that any form of human culture, including scientific and literary, always, should be considered and evaluated very positively, because it is a useful property for necessary and valuable for its little or much originality . So any cultural product a Once it has been published, still belong to the author, becomes part of human heritage and belongs to tod @ s @ s that they know to appreciate it.
The theme of the month
This month, the special theme of the poetic and paleontological section of this blog, is that poetic productions shown there are works of "non-professionalized" in any both issues, they do not have thickened economic heritage, with the practice of poetry, or that of paleontology, although both have dedicated many hours of your time and have found them very rewarding.
The authors are presenting today, addressed through his poems, on various aspects related to the fossils, fossilization or practice of paleontology, from approaches as more or less significant impact on various aspects of a philosophical, theological or geological. In one case we are able to transmit ideas and emotions through instruments or minimalist constructions and an extraordinarily synthetic, while in the other, to express themselves and communicate with the reader, the author has needed to make use of buildings more descriptive and bulky ...
fossils
( Dedicated paleontologist the friend and lover of nature, Josep Biosca Lots, May 1987 )
Poem of Josep Sala i Feu ( Spain, 1915 to 2006) , from the book "SINGS I WALK "published in Manresa in 1990, p. 158-159 ,
In this poem mossèn Feu, sings to the fossil fauna of their land girl Bages (Barcelona) and the rewarding activity of the collector, but as priest and pastor, did not miss the opportunity to link the fossil record the parable of eternal life and the idea of \u200b\u200bGod as the beginning and end of all things.
Transmetro pruned some Missatge els Fossils,
ells that seculars trets dels primitius
his effigy still docile,
and more Vellard the story?
Fifty million years looking back,
time buried deep ocean,
testify living pioneer
successive mornings of our world.
What pleasure is extracted from the depths
land remains both llunyants!
think like, forgotten in the mountains,
waited so many years ... your hands
In Bages There is a long string
the Eocene: "Dinerets Sant Pau,
the geometric urchins, star,
ramatge end of corals and soft
snail, pearl oysters and crabs arc ...
to think that the divine hand glimpse
Notwithstanding, this brief as gracefully those mud
When open eyes, to showcase the look
full of mystery, so evocative,
think my dream imagines
belluguegen like that alive.
And when I hear, splendid Message:
rest if both a single animal
will live much we made image
of the One who is life and resurrection.
Fossil apparently lasting
when everyone seems only a moment,
of future real life
que ens promet Déu, tu n’ets signe eloqüent!
Imagenes, ambas, extraídas de "Introduction to Isle of Wight Geology", by Dr. Ian West" representado una selección de moluscos, de la fauna eocena, de una zona del Reino Unido
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/wight.htm
Life of stones
Poem Clemente Muñoz Calvo ( Spain, 1964 ) surplus and active pharmaceutical versatile artist.
With this poem its initial written, in mid-1990, has gone through various phases audiovisual Clemente Calvo, seems to encourage us to feel the vertigo of time geological and capture the true essence of Paleontology, understanding of life in the past, through its scientific reconstruction.
And just for your life
can live the worlds inhabited
Canecho those havens
speak of the eternal.
's life
stones under the floor throbs
And listen carefully to his heartbeat
concentrate on a fossil
We take the pulse of the universe.
To be faithful to the original photo illustration, by Clemente Calvo, who accompanied the same poem, when it was published in the Bulletin of the College of Pharmacists of Zaragoza, HEADLIGHT No. 65, October 2000, we have chosen this image formally very different, but in our view, very similar conceptually. The spiral step the center of the shell of an ammonite, a metaphor for the spiral staircase that allows Paleontologists deepening knowledge of geologic time, associated with the conditions and circumstances in which experienced former living agencies as we now find fossil record.
Image: http://eu.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/anyka/anyka1008/anyka100800002/7535912-detalle-de-un-f-sil-prehist-rico-de-ammonites- on-a-bottom-of-texture-de-cer-mico.jpg
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Dog Just Had Puppies And Is Bleeding
Heraclius ASTUDILLO-POMBO, Dept. Medi Ambient i Ciències del Sol. Universitat de Lleida
Introduction to the process of cultural assimilation, of the dinosaurian fossil record Iberian by the English and Portuguese popular culture.
All those dinosaur fossils found in the Iberian peninsula, ordinary people, "without any kind of study", before 1900, and even in the next five decades, could never be related to the actual original animal, since its contemplation and interpretation, decontextualized basic scientific concepts, perforce, had to turn much interpretations more "logical" and understandable, in connection with the magical thinking of its discoverers. As in any interpretive process-explanatory, when there are basic pieces, the natural tendency, universal and timeless human mentality is to create or build, through the use of the imagination, "the missing piece to the whole picture." Scientists envision scenarios that must be checked later to make it scientifically valid idea, while ordinary people, lacking the basic intellectual resources and eager to get immediate answers to their questions, they can only create explanations irrational, giving rise to myths and create legends.
Who other than a current dinosauriologo could be recognized in these bones that are organized and articulated here, the skeleton of the left forelimb, 3.5 meters long, one of the largest vegetarian dinosaurs of all The Times (Sauropoda), "baptized" by the scientific name Turiasaurus riodevensis, a giant reptile, which has been estimated that could have weighed over 40 tons? to allow easy comparison to make is an idea of \u200b\u200bthe dimensions of this huge sauropod, it should be noted that the "popular and familiar" Tyrannosaurus rex only weighed about 6 tons. Anyway, how can anyone but a geologist or paleontologist modern, could have determined that this animal lived 150 million years, half swamp, a place of what is now the province of Teruel, in what is now Spain ? }
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16314272/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Any finding of remains dinosaurian "petrified" as it were loose whole bones, teeth, skulls, nearly complete articulated skeletons, whole eggs, egg shell fragments, skin impressions, footprints or traces lonely step of many steps that could have been found , in the past (or present), in which the mind of the discoverer and the society of which it forms part, were wholly or predominantly unscientific type, pre-scientific or proto, only could have induced the generation of wild ideas, fanciful interpretations produced, nurtured and induced irrational beliefs or justifying explanatory narratives fantastic guy (Etiological legends).
The common human reaction, to use or misuse of the imagination, when confronted with facts that are completely unknown or unexplained, although it is very normal behavior in our species, unfortunately, proved to be very inappropriate to advance knowledge of a scientific and rational for the correct interpretation of any phenomenon of nature, including the processes of fossilization and the presence of fossilized remains in certain places.
From the point of view of modern society, secular West and supposedly scientifically literate, it seems clear that a speculative method used to understand y explicar la realidad que esté mucho más confiado en la imaginación o en la tradición que en la observación, la contrastación y la experimentación o la inducción-deducción logico-racionalista, resultará totalmente inadecuado para la producción de interpretaciones científicas, apropiadas a sus objetivos explicativos, y totalmente inútil para la producción de conocimientos históricos o ambientales, científicamente válidos. Claro está que hay que reconocer que un método basado en la intuición, la imaginación, e incluso la alucinación, y la tradición, es un método que tiene un sólo mérito, el de ser totalmente democrático, pues estará available to almost anyone or human community, no matter how irrational or culturally backward, "they are. Therefore, it should not be too surprised that this kind of interpretation "popular" or unscientific fantasy, applied to many different types of paleontological remains have been repeated many times, in different geographic locations and in very different historical moments throughout the geographic scope of our Iberian peninsula, since as we said earlier, this trend or intellectual attitude has been socially and geographically widespread, due to be a very spontaneous response or "natural" because of its mechanism mental confabulation, activated almost automatically, affordability conceptual, to be completely based on common sense, tradition and myths of "tribe" and its universality and cultural inclusiveness, it affects not only the "common people" but also to economic and religious elites, with well-known examples in various countries in all continents.
Representation of the eighteenth century, the miraculous climb up the cliff escarpment Cape Espichel in Sesimbra, Portugal, the prodigious mule out of the waters of Atlantic Ocean, carried the sacred image Santa Maria do Cabo hasta el lugar que , en la actualidad, ocupa el santuario de Nosa Senhora da Pedra de Mua . A la izquierda, se ha representado a los dos testimonios que presenciaron "en vivo y en directo" semejante ascensión maravillosa.
Como mucha gente ya sabe, las huellas de pisadas atribuídas a la mula prodigiosa son, en realidad, una interpretación errónea, de tipo legendario y hagiográfico, de una rastrillada de pisadas, dejadas por un dinosaurio terópodo, hace 150 millones de años, cuando lo que hoy es una roca, entonces era barro y cuando lo que hoy constituye la pared de un acantilado, entonces era una llanura pantanosa. is clear that the fact that paleontology was too difficult and complex knowledge of the time, and for matching the right solution.
http://www.celtiberia.net/verimg.asp?id=6861
Any ordinary person, faced with the problem that represents the identification of a fossilized object that is completely unknown to her and her personal and social environment, ie, constitutes an authentic and genuine finding paleontological community-wide socio-cultural, since it would be the first time in his life or his history with the opportunity to observe. In addition, initially, are to be total and absolutely unrecognizable, because when seeking to compare it to something known to them, can not link with any similar existing bodies, as might be the case, more than 70 years, from almost any other dinosaur. Under these conditions, leaving them the only option is the most "natural" and more "easy" in a mind or a community in which the predominant type explanatory thought "wild", "fabulous" or "magic "religious", that of reacting, in line with the dominant socio-cultural context, making a diagnosis that will accordingly the magnitude of their cultural background, his intellectual aspirations and his fantasy imaginative.
Therefore, any person entrusted by his community to make the identification or recognition of some remains "petrified" found in its own territory, should build its capacity inductive, deductive and imaginative, and without contradiction concerning the system of concepts and procedures, their own cultural community, since they form the mental framework of knowledge on the local world in which is immersed and consistent with the system of beliefs and norms of their community, finally, must end by an identification or recognition of the remains.
But one such process, shall be opened only when the object of finding character, it is enough appeal to the whole community or for its discoverer, because it seems very intriguing and mysterious, or because he believes he can get to discover a property that is utilitarian, in the spiritual realm magic-religious or the economic-productive. Evaluated the various possibilities of analysis, may decide to occupy a portion of their personal time and their ability to reason, to seek an explanation and application to that strange object that brand mysterious petrified or stamped or carved into the rock.
But the explanatory process that could lead to give the true answer, unfortunately, require the alleged paleontological research, certain skills of it lacks any historical reasons, to deal with possibilities of success, the challenge posed by a series of puzzles that other fossil raises himself to be "really" able to solve it "properly"
- What else can be ?
- How, where and when it could have formed?
- What properties and can be useful?
Then, the alleged paleontological research, with all the personal and social information to gather and correlate with the finding "petrified", try to imagine what can be and how, where and when it could have been his training and what circumstances can be used to advantage.
Unfortunately, for the advancement of human scientific knowledge about the processes of fossilization and the biological nature of fossils and the fair success of investigations of alleged paleontological research, if it does not have the necessary training to provide this academic discipline or no sufficient objectivity and necessary, given the complexity of the natural phenomenon of fossilization and the lack of equivalent living organisms that may serve as a reference, inevitably, any person belonging to a non-scientifically literate, educated and paleontology will be forced shorten the review process and miss the view of diagnosis, which was intended to get to know the nature and origin of the object paleontological investigation. So will paleontological research literate, but belonging to communities of "believers" subject to centennial or millennial traditions contained in sacred texts, which refer to visions, revelations and speculations of certain characters "enlightened."
humorous representation of a widespread belief among creationists, that dinosaurs coexisted with humans until the arrival of historic flood Universa l, global catastrophic event that killed drowned, along with a variety of monstrous creatures cursed by God, as different types of giants, dragons, etc. .. The bullet
Paul J. Caldwell, entitled "No cabin", is the patriarch Noah from the ark of salvation, anguished screams and weeping about dinosaurs that previously have applied for admission to board the ark to escape God's punishment which seeks to "purify the face of the Earth, wiping out all evil and godless creatures" Sorry guys, but I do not have room for you!
http://mediaslugz.blogspot.com/2010/04/no- room.html
Since the alleged research will be pressed by social circumstances, to issue an opinion quickly, without having an objective basis and, moreover, must be acceptable to social groups key for which shall be consistent with the ancient myths, then, the alleged researcher must resort to the use of the fable, references to unnatural emerging mass mortality events (extinction) to abnormal phenomena petrified antediluvian remains of organisms that have been produced in very unusual environmental conditions and / or by the intervention of certain supernatural beings, related to various traditional myths.
Another graphic representation, and nothing more artistic humorous that expressed the same belief in the torrential cause the extinction of the dinosaurs entitled "'s dilemma Noah. " He sees a happy tyrannosaurus, introduced in a semicircle of light, probably meaning symbolic, in which there are four pairs of wild animals, standing in line, to the patriarch Noah, who reminds him of the dinosaur, a newcomer, a creature accursed by God and therefore can not be admitted into the ark of salvation and must perish in the great flood, along with all other creatures that have not respected the laws of God.
http://mattstone.blogs.com/christian/2010/12/dinosaurs-before-the-fall.html
Thursday, March 10, 2011
How Much The Patron Silver Cost
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Stepped On Foot By Stiletto
Madam President, I was very pleased to hear about the need to amend Act Transparency Adoption priority to ensure the identity of the origin of the child. For Adoption is a Right of the Child, he is entitled to be adopted and no adult to adopt. And we get to situations where anything goes as long as parenting partners with judges and lawyers who profit economic development in these situations. Nobody thinks of the child, crime suppression of civil status and identity goes on to become a habit "frowned upon" by society because they assume that "Save a child." Other rights are to remain with their biological family and you know the name of their parents. I worried about the position of some Members, such as case of Deputy Hotton raised the anonymity of the mother, that is, sacrificing the right to identity of the child as it, to prevent abortions and filicide (killing of babies). Life is not just allow the beating of the heart, because deceit and concealment suffer. It is important to think about the future, now worry that more children are respected. But we are more than 3 million adults who were given birth illegally listed as their own, we do not know our true birth date and place. And despite the years the pain of uncertainty is with us. Our Right to Identity does not prescribe but we are no longer children and need to have the opportunity to know our truth, however painful it is. We need to recognize our existence and to legislate on the matter. The searches are possible, some will succeed, others may not but no one is God as to deny the attempt, always within a framework of confidentiality and respect. We do not want to expose to the media, we are not celebrities, we are human beings with complex histories and we respect and consideration. President 11 years ago to demand a National Registry of Persons seeking his true identity and a national body that deals with the conduct of searches. The only goal is to reach the Truth and fill that blank space in our lives. We want nothing more. I appeal to your sensibility as a woman, mother and help us. I am hopeful, not yet.
Graciela Palma (citizen without identity) DNI (with false) 16,496,527
palmagraciela@gmail.com
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Ward's Ap Bio Lab # 5
Monday, February 21, 2011
How Many Days Do You Have Fertile Mucus
by Heraclius ASTUDILLO-POMBO, Dept. MACS, UdL
Again, up again, the subject of popular legend Iberian type etiológicco have been caused by reasons paleontology. This month, we will discuss a popular legend that is well known in the Hecho Valley, in the Aragonese Pyrenees and is closely linked to the popular imagination, particularly the beautiful town of Huesca Siresa, it is the legend of "The gasp of the Mora."
The Legend of gasp of the Mora "by Siresa (Huesca)
Wandering around the church monastery of San Pedro
Any tourist who while visiting in the town of Huesca Siresa, has been approached by the magnificent surroundings of the monastery church of St. Peter, Carolingian style of the ninth century, almost certainly, will have been asked by a local transient, whether you've seen, or not, the famous and legendary " gasp of the default "or maybe, instead of the previous name, if you've seen preguntrá" petrified snake. "
If tourists do not answer yes and lets himself be guided by the local spontaneous and impromptu cicerone, come to the side entrance of the western facade, where the informant will show a kind of stone slabs that form the lining of the seat one of the two benches against the wall of the access tunnel, in whose area will see a curious snake-embossed.
A little to the tourist's face expresses a gesture of interrogation, the guide will explain some of the various versions of the legend of the Mora maintained by local families.
Image: View of the Church of St. Peter in Siresa, seen by the side of the main facade, "the gasp of the Mora", is at the side entrance visible on the left side This photograph of valentinv.com
http://www.valentinv.com/romanico/Altoaragon.html
In all cases, the story turns out to be a naive type popular legendary story, which aims to give a veneer of historical reality to a totally fantastic story, using a material witness who brings a great deal of undoubted veracity, consistent in a serpentine-looking stone mark.
The legend when it invented centuries ago intended to make comprehensible and credible, mythic-minded people, belonging to a pre-scientific society and basically illiterate, how and why they had made the rare brand of snake-shaped stone they had before their eyes, as well as attempting to provide all narratives of educational a moralistic teaching. This is supposed to be the same brand that now, centuries later, we can still see on the surface of the stone slab.
Image: serpentine appearance of the terrain which is popularly called the recoil Mora "or" snake petrified. " Original photograph Vidaller Tricas Rafel, courtesy courtesy of the author for this entry.
This legend was picked first by Angela Gari says "In Siresa, town that leads into the majestic forest of Oza, is account that in the past, there was a Moor who lived in a forest near the village. (in other versions of the same legend residence would be in the bottom of a "Ibon" or existing in a deep cave in the middle of the jungle Pyrenees)
arrears is said that for centuries had been collecting a large number of articles of precious metals and gemstones extracted from the interior of the churches abandoned after the invasion of the Moors, sacred objects that had accumulated in his lair, it was gleaming chalices, reliquary, crosses, medallions, etc .... One day while a shepherd tending his flock on Mount casually found one of those valuable chalices, owned by the delay. Believing a jewel of great value, decided to appropriate to improve their austere living conditions, through the enjoyment of future earnings which could provide further sale.
After a very short time, the pastor warned that someone, who could not see in the dense forest, followed him, within walking distance. He thought about who could be who was walking along and realized that if he was following was "overdue", his only chance of salvation was in hurry to carry the stolen gem the magical forest snake woman, Siresa to church, it was knowing that the arrears by its being evil, could not enter the territory bounded by the sacred precinct. Without thinking twice, ran away at full speed, feeling the breath of lives in the neck, finally came running up to an entrance of the temple of San Pedro, where the delay, ah now transformed into deadly snake, it almost heels. Entered stumbled and managed to close the door behind him, giving a very strong door. The delay-snake, infuriated at being outwitted by the pastor, gave a terrible backlash in a bank he had entry into the thief escaped, being recorded there since that time, the mark left by the impact of their tail. "
Image: appearance of a snake woman, drawn from the current film, modern caraterización of the protagonist of Hiss . Can you imagine the inhabitants of Siresa a type of similar monster? Or maybe they figured a witch who could turn into snake to regain their desire to give and then look human? Was this a one Huesca version of the legend of Melusine? http://www.cinemaniablog.com/galleria/big/imagenes-detras-de-las-camaras-de-hisss/1
In other versions of this legend is the own arrears after becoming a common snake, the petrified remains on the stone bench in the sacred enclosure, which gave the flick.
Pastor relieved and very grateful for having saved his life, decided to offer the precious cup, which had won the arrears, the treasury of the sanctuary, where he and many other jewels donated by the faithful, remained guarded many years. Until the day that some "enlightened" identified him as the true Grail, the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, so was moved to the cathedral of Valencia, where he was revered as a sacred object, attracting large numbers of faithful believers ....
The legend of "Siresa delinquency" is the local expression of a popular interpretation of a geological phenomenon, relatively common in this area: the "trace fossils" left by many benthic organisms living within the most superficial area of \u200b\u200bthe seabed sediments of great depth. These reliefs are very varied shapes and sizes, depending on dietary habits and the size of burrowing organisms that originated them. These curious reliefs have been preserved and are visible on the surface of the Eocene calcareous sandstone rocks because they are the most consistent of which are the materials of alternating series' hard-soft ", which form a kind of geological units and landscape very characteristic of called "flysch " or "turbidites". These rocks are more or less thin layers, with a tendency to break down into thinner slabs or tiles, are so common in this area and so manageable that have been widely used in the activities of traditional construction of all types: walls, floors, roofs, siding, etc.., there are several quarries and quarrying in the vicinity of the population.
Image: appearance of a magnificent "worm track" common name that is known to one of several types of "trace fossil" or "paleoicnitas" contained in a piece of Eocene sandstone. JMN original photograph of PYRENEES, MOUNTAINS AND MEN
http://pirineosrutasyflora.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html
According to Professor Antonio Beltrán, range Aragon legends related to Moors, would have a time limit com old quetendrían the sixteenth century, recognizing that some ramifications of these legends can be assimilated to other legends of earlier eras. The old has to do with the implications of religious overtones that show many legends of that era and is known and notorious the enormous proliferation of apparitions and miraculous events from the late fifteenth to the mid XVI. But it is clear that this legend incorporates elements related to older traditions to be waste of Greco-Roman mythology, Germanic and Celtic, pre-existing local culture.
Possibly the slab with the legendary brand of "backlash of the delay" should be put in place that we see today, between the sixteenth and seventeenth to strengthen the credibility of the story of the shepherd who saved, miraculously, his life refuge in an enclosure set under the protection of God and his saints. Therefore, we can say that long before geologists and paleontologists, some people already dealt with the interpretation of such fossils and take advantage of these interpretations to influence the local society.
If the watchful eyes of a geologist, or better yet, a " footprints it" is not dedicated to wander around of the monastic church of St Peter and we observe calmly and carefully, the surface of the stones used for paving, the surrounding streets, we will discover, with surprise, several other kinds of marks, embossed on the surface of some of stones. Any geologist who has been devoted to search, compare and count, states that "appear little more than a dozen different types of tracks left by bioturbators turbiditic sediment " some of those positive marks in bas-relief, are very similar the famous "default queue, but smaller. This makes us assume that the slab of the backlash, was found in any of the existing quarries around Siresa and placed in the place that we see today, intended to explain and remind parishioners to pass over the place, a story very "uplifting." As rational reflection, we can say that the naive popular interpretation has a clear intention very typical propaganda of the past: the Christian God is more powerful than the allies of the devil, God and the Church protect all those who take refuge in his doctrine; is lawful to steal as non-Christians are "inferior or enemies" not to be believers, the thief is forgiven if you won is given to the church, the snakes are linked to the devil and his minions ...
! World Exclusive! We discovered the true aspect of delinquency Siresa!
should be noted, the non-specialist readers in the genre legendary English, that "blackberries " which stars most of the Iberian legends of the northern and eastern half of the peninsula, have little correlation with real berries and other North African lot with the enchanted the lamias the xanas , the magicians and various types of female ancestral spirits or spirits of nature who lived and protected from human greed and the exploitation natural world forests, mountains, water or caves, accumulating and protecting, untold riches and treasures that occasionally offered some humans.
A popular part of the name, these legendary berries have little to do with the women of North African invaders, despite the legend often say they are enchanted Moorish princesses and daughters of a Moorish king. Or that the treasures accumulated in forest hideouts, underwater or underground, are the immense wealth they were forced to deposit, when they had to flee before the advance of the Christians who were retaking the territory. But almost always, Syncretism is the effect of popular literature in which characters are mixed and events, from pre-Christian pagan myths, with others, from specifically Christian myths.
But let us go to literature and science paleontology through one of its specialties, called Paleoichnology going to help us discover what might be the true aspect of the famous blackberry Siresa legend.
If you look carefully "The backlash of default" that is kept in the bank of the door of the church of St. Peter, as well as other brands such as may occur in other stones of the pavement nearby, we see that are a type of relief, double aspect serpentine or meandering, for filing a groove medium central stone that divides the cord into two symmetrical halves. Such reliefs are so characteristic that paleontologists will have a particular identification name, call them Scolicia when double cord-like continuous and Bichordites , when the course has a regular discontinuities and some sections "meniscus" that give double aspect of cord cutting. In the one case as in other snake trademark in relief, in fact, they are the fossilized tracks left by the digging activity of a very large group of sea urchins, irregular heart-shaped to correspond to the order of espatangoideos urchins that includes many families and genera, some as common as Hemiaster , Holaster, Micraster, Schizaster, Toxaster , etc.
reliefs Scolicia type, found in Eocene sandstones, must have been generated by contemporaries urchins bioturbated sediments, so it is assumed that could be carved by urchins espatangoides marine, deep type of gender Spatangus or Schizaster , genres that appeared in the Eocene and have a proper way of life.
Image: Appearance dorsal the most characteristic of the echinoids, the right a Schizaster and left a Spatangus , sea urchins both genders are characteristic of the Eocene forms.
In conclusion
Therefore, thanks to the Earth sciences, at last, we know that the backlash of the legendary mythical snake-Siresa dwells, there is real but a great fact, thought for centuries to explain in an understandable and concerned a fact of nature and natural geological. We realize that this conclusion as scientific and rationalist, is not going to cheer a lot, and arational the staunchest defenders of the alleged miraculous or supernatural origins of all sorts of mysterious markings. One type of imaginative people, in excess, which often relate anything incomprehensible to them, with performances of superhuman beings, sometimes intangible and invisible when they are evil, ghostly or angelic, sometimes with their legendary characters are wizards, witches or aliens.
These stone marks that were inexplicable, even to scientists in the mid-nineteenth century, thanks to advances in Earth science, we now know that they are nothing more and nothing less than a quite curious natural phenomenon that occurred between 40 and 30 million years and, moreover, demonstrates convincingly that for millions of years, this large area of \u200b\u200bthe Pyrenees today, was now sandy-muddy bottom of a deep sea occupying most of what is now the Pyrenees Mountains, in which seabed layers were deposited rhythmically break loose sediments of the continental slope area, slipped to the deep sea, in which, once stabilized, are instalban and lived a humble crowd of marine invertebrates, daily, mined the most recent layers of sediments, digging tunnels sections, rather shallow, to get them their humble daily food, consisting of organic debris, buried and mixed into the surface layer of sand and silt. In the case of this trace that the popular imagination became legendary for expert footprints it proves to be a commonplace vulgar ichnogenus ichnofossil Scolicia , whose creator was an irregular sea urchin, of the type mentioned above.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Can U Masterbate In Water
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS PROJECT LOG DURING THE YEAR 2010 :
- Bru Sansano, Jaume , philologist, a name, caver, high school teacher, Elche (Alicante)
- Buendía Gómez, M ª Carmen , secretary of the Society of Friends of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Zaragoza (SAMPUZ)
- Díaz Gómez, Jesús , scholar and popularizer of history and geography of tourism Ameskoas, multibloguero of Larraona (Navarra)
- Díaz Martínez, Ignacio , geologist, in the process of transformation dinoicnólogo , Logroño (La Rioja)
- Albizu García Jiménez, Balbino, historian, ethnographer, writer and editor amescoano (Navarra)
- Garcia Pascual, Iñaki , Geologist, Project answerable Geology and Soils of Basoinsa SL., Leioa (Vizcaya)
- Garcia-Ramos, Alvaro , photographer, Oviedo (Asturias)
- Urtiaga Kintana, Xabier , philologist and writer in Euskera Euskaltzaindia secretary and honorary member of the Academy of Aragon, in Bilbao (Vizcaya)
- Mesa López-Colmenar, José M ª , geologist, professor at the University of Seville
- Montane García, Pau, geologist, manager and guide of Geodiscovering, Camarasa (Lleida)
- Pontacq Seguranyes, Joan , geographer, hiker, a name, writer and lecturer, Banyoles (Girona)
- Simon Ortigosa, Sara , digital coordinator Cyberlibrary Cidacos Valle, de Enciso (La Rioja)
- Villagrasa, M ª José of Vega del Moll SA, Morella ( Castellón)
This rare image paleontological, we symbolize the old, swallowed by the new year, as a metaphorical idea that, for human knowledge, the past is the nutrient of the present and future.
But for those more rationalist and prosaic, the scene tell you that fossilized only a sample of a typical predator-prey relationship existing in any biological community, but in this case that happened almost 56 MA. ..
RARE FISH FOSSIL Aspiration
Mioplosus labracoides Eocene and Knightia
Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming
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The occurrence of an "aspiration" - one fish in the act of swallowing another - is extremely rare in the fossil record, but here is a fine example from the famed Green River Formation in Wyoming. Renowned for its abundance of high quality fish fossils, the formation has yielded over 19 species, of which the ancient perch Mioplosus was one of the predators; here a 5¼-inch example has been caught in the act of chowing down on a sprat-like Knightia; the smaller fish protrudes 7/8 of an inch from its mouth and presumably choked the larger fish to death, with the result that they are preserved together in death for all eternity. The locality is renowned for the detail of its fossils and the world-class on-site preparators are famed for their ability to render a fossil in an attractive and comprehensive manner, as here. A rare and unusual piece, the pale limestone matrix is stabilized with a plywood backing and measures 6 x 7 1/6 inches.