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Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes

(PhysOrg.com) -- The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth ...

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Geological record shows air up there came from below

(Phys.org) -- The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, according to new research that links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Geologists map prehistoric climate changes in Canada's Yukon Territory

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have joined an international group of scientists to study past climate changes in the Arctic. Comprising geologists from Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science, the ...

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Earth's sister in the crosshairs

Earth’s sister is out there, somewhere, and scientists searching for planets that may support life believe they are closing in on finding just that.

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Rock sleuths: Researchers seek clues to atmospheric changes ahead of animal life

For more than a decade, scientists have dismissed claims that examining carbon-rich rocks could yield clues to the atmospheric and oceanic conditions on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but now researchers ...

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New study queries interactions of metal-reducing bacteria with plutonium oxide

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent work by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shed new light on the perplexing environmental chemistry of plutonium. They demonstrated that under anaerobic, or oxygen-free, ...

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created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hazy shades of life on early Earth

A 'see-sawing' atmosphere over 2.5 billion years ago preceded the oxygenation of our planet and the development of complex life on Earth, a new study has shown.

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created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study links past changes in monsoon to major shifts in Indian civilizations

(PhysOrg.com) -- A fundamental shift in the Indian monsoon has occurred over the last few millennia, from a steady humid monsoon that favored lush vegetation to extended periods of drought, reports a new study ...

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created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

An avalanche of planning for multi-national Arctic field campaigns

The U.S. GEOTRACES Science Steering Committee (SSC) has established a U.S. Arctic GEOTRACES initiative to help characterize and understand regional biogeochemical changes associated with rapid climate change. ...

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created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taking stock of subsurface microbial communities at Hanford

Taking a census provides valuable information about residents' ages, employment, makeup, living conditions, etc. Most censuses are taken door to door or by mail. But if the community lives in areas that are ...

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created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

The Burgess Shale of British Columbia is arguably the most important fossil deposit in the world, providing an astounding record of the Cambrian "Explosion," the rapid flowering of complex life from single-celled ancestors. ...

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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