News tagged with continental margins
Cliffhanging corals avoid trawler damage
Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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The Atlantic 'resting' -- for now
Geophysicists have simulated when the continents around the Atlantic develop active continental margins with earthquakes and volcanoes. According to the model, ‘real’ fully active subduction zones ...
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May 23, 2011 |
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Marine scientists unveil the mystery of life on undersea mountains
They challenge the mountain ranges of the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas in size yet surprisingly little is known about seamounts, the vast mountains hidden under the world's oceans. Now in a special issue ...
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Transient fluvial incision and active surface uplift in the Woodlark Rift of Eastern Papua New Guinea
The Woodlark Rift off-shore of eastern Papua New Guinea is the fastest extending continental crust on Earth.
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Unexpected earthquakes within continental plates pose challenges
Earthquakes that occur on "passive" continental margins, such as the August 2011 magnitude 5.8 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake, surprise people because they expect earthquakes to occur only on plate boundaries. But, in fact, ...
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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Land-ocean connections
Scientists from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii – Manoa (UHM) and colleagues recently discovered that land-based plant material and coastal macroalgae ...
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Plate tectonics modelled realistically
Swiss scientists have for the first time succeeded in realistically simulating how an oceanic plate sinks of its own accord under an adjacent plate. At the same time they showed why only one of the plates ...
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Feb 23, 2012 |
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Climate change is altering mountain vegetation at large scale, European research says
The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since global climate has been measured, and while localized studies have shown evidence of changes in mountain plant communities that reflect this warming trend, ...
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Simultaneous ice melt in Antarctic and Arctic
The end of the last ice age and the processes that led to the melting of the northern and southern ice sheets supply basic information on changes in our climate. Although the maximum size of the ice sheet in the northern ...
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Dec 02, 2011 |
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Plate shapes may hold secrets to earthquakes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from The Australian National University has brought scientists a step closer to finding out how earthquakes happen.
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Nov 09, 2011 |
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Why did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so rapidly?
The November GSA Today science article, "Why did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so rapidly? -- Oblique divergence across hot, weak lithosphere along a tectonically active margin," is now online.
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Nov 03, 2011 |
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Epic volcanic activity flooded Mercury's north polar region
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the Mariner 10 mission in 1974 snapped the first pictures of Mercury, planetary scientists have been intrigued by smooth plains covering parts of the surface. Some suspected past ...
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Sep 29, 2011 |
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New study shows that Florida's reefs cannot endure a 'cold snap'
Remember frozen iguanas falling from trees during Florida's 2010 record-breaking cold snap? Well, a new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science ...
Aug 26, 2011 |
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