News tagged with mineral samples
Tracking a Jurassic reversal of the Earth's magnetic field
Roughly 180 million years ago, during the height of the Jurassic period, the Earth's magnetic field flipped, bringing the magnetic north pole once again into the Northern Hemisphere.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 17, 2012 |
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Water treatments alone not enough to combat fluorosis in Ethiopia
Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led ...
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Curtin geologists make a 'shocking' discovery
Research led by Curtin University geologists has uncovered a wealth of new evidence in the mineral zircon from lunar rock samples recovered during NASA’s Apollo missions, revealing indisputable proof ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Third lunar mineral - Tranquillityite found in Western Australia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in the heyday of the Apollo moon program, hundreds of pounds of rock samples were carted back to Earth by visiting astronauts. Those samples were then pored over more thoroughly by geologists ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Paleo-Indians settled North America earlier than thought: study
New discoveries at a Central Texas archaeological site by a Texas A&M University-led research team prove that people lived in the region far earlier – as much as 2,500 years earlier – than previously ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Scientist's Award Allows Her To Probe the Earth's Mantle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sandwiched between the liquid iron outer core and the thin rocky crust we live on, the Earth's mantle is more than 1,800 miles thick, and comprises more than three-quarters of the planet's volume and nearly ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2010 |
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NASA wants mission to bring Martian rocks to Earth
(AP) -- For the past decade, NASA's Mars exploration strategy was to follow the water.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2010 |
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