(PhysOrg.com) -- It appears that the supposed oldest examples of life on our planet -- 3.5 billion-year-old bacteria fossils found in Australian rock called Apex Chert -- are nothing more than tiny gaps in the rock that are ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2011
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Geologists, engineers and like-minded sceptics will meet in earthquake-devastated Christchurch Sunday to mock "junk science" predictions another major tremor will hit the city this weekend.
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2011
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Helping to settle a debate over plate tectonics that has divided geologists for decades, scientists at Harvard University have moved a step closer to understanding the complex physical deformation of one of the most densely ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 9, 2011
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Geologists drilling an exploratory geothermal well in 2009 in the Krafla volcano in Iceland encountered a problem they were simply unprepared for: magma (molten rock or lava underground) which flowed unexpectedly into the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Otago geologists are part of an ambitious project currently drilling two boreholes into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault to learn more about how large faults evolve and how they produce earthquakes. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2011
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Careful dating of new dinosaur fossils and volcanic ash around them by researchers from UC Davis and UC Berkeley casts doubt on the idea that dinosaurs appeared and opportunistically replaced other animals. Instead -- at ...
Archaeology
Jan 24, 2011
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While there continues to be considerable debate among geologists about the availability of oxygen in the Earth's mantle, recent discoveries by a University of Rhode Island scientist are bringing resolution to the question.
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvellously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa has been solved by a team of geologists from the University of Leicester’s ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2010
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Geologists at the University of Liverpool are excavating a two-million-year-old World Heritage Site in Tanzania to understand how climate variations may have contributed to early human evolution.
Archaeology
Oct 12, 2010
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As world experts grapple with ways to contain global warming, researchers gathered in Egypt are seeking answers from the country's pharaonic past to help tackle environmental problems of the present.
Archaeology
Sep 21, 2010
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