News tagged with geology
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Volcanic Ash Research Shows How Plumes End up in the Jet Stream
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University at Buffalo volcanologist, an expert in volcanic ash cloud transport, published a paper recently showing how the jet stream, the area in the atmosphere that pilots prefer to fly in, also seems ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2010 |
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The age of Aquarius? Nope, it's the Anthropocene epoch
In just two centuries, humans have wrought such vast and unprecedented changes to our world that we actually might be ushering in a new geological time period that could alter the planet for millions of years, ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Early Earth absorbed more sunlight -- no extreme greenhouse needed to keep water wet
Four billion years ago, our then stripling sun radiated only 70 to 75 percent as much energy as it does today. Other things on Earth being equal, with so little energy reaching the planet's surface, all water ...
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Apr 06, 2010 |
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The Dawn of a New Epoch?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a Nobel prize-winner - who suggest that the Earth has entered a new age of geological time.
Mar 26, 2010 |
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Cheap and green -- new Nottingham spin-out to revolutionize sustainable energy
Zero-carbon, renewable energy which is cost-competitive with fossil fuel generated sources is surely the Holy Grail of the engineering world.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Study shows 'plausible' connection between DFW quakes, saltwater injection well
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from Southern Methodist University and UT-Austin reveals that the operation of a saltwater injection ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2010 |
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First Fossil-Makers in Hot Water
Microbe mats in Yellowstone's hot springs may be living analogs of the primordial microbe communities that constructed the oldest rock fossils on Earth.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Rapid response science missions assess potential for another major Haiti earthquake
To help assess the potential threat of more large earthquakes in Haiti and nearby areas, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics are co-leading three expeditions to the country with colleagues ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Rain, Rain, Go Online
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new webcam at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is keeping an eye on debris and water flows that could course down nearby wildfire-stripped hillsides during a rainstorm.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Dust in the Earth system
Dust is a powerful thing. Not the stuff that we wipe off the coffee table on a regular basis, but the tiny particles floating around in the earth's atmosphere, which originate primarily from deserts in North Africa and the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2010 |
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As Skiers Go Down, Moguls Migrate Up, Study Finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gravity always wins, one might think. Avalanches roar and skiers plunge inexorably downhill. But moguls -- or bumps, as skiers know them -- move uphill.
Feb 19, 2010 |
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New study finds link between marine algae and whale diversity over time
A new paper by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Otago in New Zealand shows a strong link between the diversity of organisms at the bottom of the food chain and the diversity of mammals at the top.
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Layers in a Mars Crater Record a History of Changes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Near the center of a Martian crater about the size of Connecticut, hundreds of exposed rock layers form a mound as tall as the Rockies and reveal a record of major environmental changes on ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Finding a Secret Map to Erosion (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- On the northeast coast of New Zealand's North Island, the Waipaoa River drains into the dazzling sea. Upriver, things are not so pretty. More than a century of land clearing for farming has created some of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2010 |
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New international satellite observations help assess future earthquake risk in Haiti
Virginia Key, Florida--Scientists at the University of Miami have analyzed images based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations taken before and just after Haiti's earthquake, on January 12. The images ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2010 |
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