Geology
- 'Unambiguous Evidence' For Ancient Lake On Mars 3.4 Billion Years Ago
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A University of Colorado at Boulder research team say their discovery of shorelines on Mars is an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet. Estimated to be more than 3 billion ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2009 - 6:27pm
- Creep Cavitation- Deep Earth Pump Fuels Earthquakes
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Scientists have discovered the presence of a natural deep earth 'pump' that is a crucial element in the formation of ore deposits and earthquakes. The process, called 'creep cavitation', involves fluid being pumped through pores in def ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:26pm
- Greenland Ice Sheets Can Change In A Geologic 'Instant'- Study
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Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid change, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo. Their Nature Geoscience describes fieldwork ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2009 - 2:00am
- Solving The Poor Imaging Of Earth's Mantle
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The Earth's mantle, situated under the Earth's crust, is a key area for understanding geological processes but we only come into contact with Earth's circulating layers in the event of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. It's important ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2009 - 2:00am
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Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jun 23 2009 - 12:24pm
- Upthrusting Plates: Creating Washington
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Two hundred million years ago, Washington was two large islands, bits of continent on the move westward, eventually bumping up against the North American continent and calling it home. Even with their new fixed address, the shifting continues; the more ex ...
Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jun 29 2009 - 3:26pm
- Amazon River Up To 11 Million Years Old, Says Study
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The Amazon River has been around for 11 million years ago and in its shape for the last 2.4 million years ago, according to a study on two boreholes drilled in proximity of the mouth of the Amazon River by Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil. Unt ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2009 - 5:00pm
- How Enceladus Got Its Stripes
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A new study says both the tiger stripes and a subsurface ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus are the result of the moon's unusual chemical composition and not a hot core, as previously believed. shedding light on the evolution of planets and guiding ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2009 - 9:11am
- Can We Still Learn Something From Apollo 11 Moon Rocks 40 Years Later?
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A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be found in moon rocks brought back by the Apollo 11 astronauts nearly 40 years ago. And he's been studying them since then, so he should know. Randy ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2009 - 12:56pm
- Plastic Rings May Form An 'Invisibility Cloak' Against Earthquakes- Someday
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New research at the University of Liverpool says it is possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from earthquakes, using concentric rings of plastic which could be fitted to the Earth's surface in order to divert surfa ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:28pm