News tagged with geology
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Species loss tied to ecosystem collapse and recovery
The world's oceans are under siege. Conservation biologists regularly note the precipitous decline of key species, such as cod, bluefin tuna, swordfish and sharks. Lose enough of these top-line predators (among ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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The three ages of Mars
There is no place on Earth that is a perfect copycat of Mars as it is now, or as it was at any specific point in the past. But scientists suggest Earth has little versions of Mars as it might have been over ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Research provides better understanding of long-term changes in the climate system
For more than a decade, Dr. Joseph Ortiz, associate professor of geology at Kent State University and part of an international team of National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers, has been studying ...
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Dec 02, 2010 |
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Horse-dragon and colossal iguana: Scientists identify new beaked herbivorous dinosaurs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of Pennsylvania and the Utah Geological Survey have described two skeletons representing two new species of beaked herbivorous dinosaurs, known as iguanodonts, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 23, 2010 |
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LIDAR applications in coastal morphology and hazard assessment
Southampton scientists along with colleagues in New Zealand have used a sophisticated optical mapping technique to identify and accurately measure changes in coastal morphology following a catastrophic series ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Newly discovered drumlin field provides answers about glaciation and climate
The landform known as a drumlin, created when the ice advanced during the Ice Age, can also be produced by today's glaciers. This discovery, made by researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2010 |
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Mining on the moon could actually happen, someday: researcher
While lunar mining might some day be economically feasible for countries and companies, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher believes strongly that mining in space is essential to the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 16, 2010 |
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New analysis explains formation of bulge on farside of moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- A bulge of elevated topography on the farside of the moon--known as the lunar farside highlands--has defied explanation for decades. But a new study led by researchers at the University of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2010 |
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New explanation for the origin of high species diversity
An international team of scientists have reset the agenda for future research in the highly diverse Amazon region by showing that the extraordinary diversity found there is much older than generally thought.
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Darwin's theory of gradual evolution not supported by geological history, scientist concludes
Charles Darwin's theory of gradual evolution is not supported by geological history, New York University Geologist Michael Rampino concludes in an essay in the journal Historical Biology. In fact, Rampino notes that a more ...
Nov 09, 2010 |
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Algeo tracks evidence of 'The Great Dying'
More than 251 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, Earth almost became a lifeless planet. Around 90 percent of all living species disappeared then, in what scientists have called "The Great Dying."
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Geologists find parts of Northwest Houston sinking rapidly
A large section of northwestern Harris County - particularly the Jersey Village area - is sinking rapidly, according to a University of Houston (UH) geologist who has analyzed GPS data measuring ground elevation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Earth's highest coastal mountain on the move
(PhysOrg.com) -- The rocks of Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta—the highest coastal mountain on Earth—tell a fascinating tale: The mountain collides and then separates from former super-continents. Volcanoes ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Rolling the dice with evolution: Massive extinction will have unpredictable consequences
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Macquarie University palaeobiologist, Dr John Alroy, predicts major changes to the rules of evolution as we understand them now. Those changes will have serious consequences for future biodiversity ...
Sep 03, 2010 |
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The Moon puts on camo
A new geologic map of the moon's Schrodinger basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of what a mash-up the moon's surface is after eons of violent events. The geologic record at Schrödinger is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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