News tagged with mud volcanoes
Scientists show link between exploration well and Indonesia's Lusi mud volcano
(PhysOrg.com) -- New data provides the strongest evidence to date that the world's biggest mud volcano, which killed 13 people in 2006 and displaced thirty thousand people in East Java, Indonesia, was not ...
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Feb 11, 2010 |
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Research group finds ancient deep sea mud volcano as possible site for origin of life
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international consortium of scientists and researchers has been studying some ancient rocks found on the southwestern coast of Greenland. They believe the rocks were once part of a deep ...
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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Mud volcano set to erupt for quarter-century - scientists
A mud volcano that has displaced more than 13,000 Indonesian families will erupt for at least a quarter of century, emitting belches of flammable gas through a deepening lake of sludge, scientists reported ...
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Feb 24, 2011 |
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Indonesia mud volcano still spewing sludge four years later
Four years after it erupted from the well of a gas company linked to one of Indonesia's richest men, the mud volcano known as "Lusi" is still spewing its toxic sludge over Java's countryside.
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May 28, 2010 |
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Indonesia mud volcano may last 30 years: expert
Indonesia's devastating 'mud volcano' could keep spewing for the next 30 years, filling the equivalent of 50 Olympic-size swimming pools every day, a top Australian expert warned.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Brine-Loving Microbes Reveal Secrets to Success in Chemically Extreme Environments
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial ...
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Ancient deep sea rivers of sand and mud tell climate story
Planet Earth is now due for another ice age when glaciers will form and sea levels drop up to 120m. But don't get your woollies out just yet. "Any moment now" in geological speak means give or take a few hundreds of years ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 29, 2012 |
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A birthplace for primitive life on Earth?
The mud volcanoes at Isua, in south-west Greenland, have been identified as a possible birthplace for life on Earth by an international team headed by researchers from the Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon: ...
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Oct 24, 2011 |
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Mud Volcanoes on Mars
Spewing out material from deep underground, geological structures on Mars thought to be mud volcanoes could give scientists the clues they need to determine if life exists, or ever existed, on the Red Planet.
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Aug 19, 2010 |
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