News tagged with continental shelf
Geoscientists Drill Deepest Hole in Ocean Crust in Scientific Ocean Drilling History
(PhysOrg.com) -- For eight weeks beginning in November 2009, off the coast of New Zealand, an international team of 34 scientists and 92 support staff and crew on board the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Giant impact near India -- not Mexico -- may have doomed dinosaurs
A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Walruses congregate on Alaska shore as ice melts
(AP) -- Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change.
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Troubled Waters: Low Apalachicola River Flow May Hurt Gulf Fisheries
(PhysOrg.com) -- Reductions in the flow of the Apalachicola River have far-reaching effects that could prove detrimental to grouper and other reef fish populations in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, according to a new Florida ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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