News tagged with ocean basins
African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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USF Study Shows First Direct Evidence of Ocean Acidification
(PhysOrg.com) -- Seawater in a vast and deep section of the northeastern Pacific Ocean shows signs of increased acidity brought on by manmade carbon dioxide in the atmosphere -- a phenomenon that carries with ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 20, 2010 |
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The rise of oxygen caused Earth's earliest ice age
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2009 |
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Tides, Earth's rotation among sources of giant underwater waves
Scientists at the University of Rhode Island are gaining new insight into the mechanisms that generate huge, steep underwater waves that occur between layers of warm and cold water in coastal regions of the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Two huge icebergs let loose off Antarctica's coast
(AP) -- An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice could lower the levels of oxygen in the world's oceans, Australian and French ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Humans 'damaging the oceans': research
Mounting evidence that human activity is changing the world's oceans in profound and damaging ways is outlined in a new scientific discussion paper released today.
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Monsoons spinning the Earth's plates: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have for the first time shown a link between intensifying climate events and tectonic plate movement in findings that could provide a valuable insight into why huge tremors occur.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Research on neutrinos allows the discovery of vortices in the abysses of the eastern Mediterranean
An INFN research project on neutrinos has made it possible to observe for the first time the presence of chains of marine vortices in the Mediterranean at depths of more than 3000 meters, large water structures of diameters ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 16, 2012 |
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Deep history of coconuts decoded
The coconut (the fruit of the palm Cocos nucifera) is the Swiss Army knife of the plant kingdom; in one neat package it provides a high-calorie food, potable water, fiber that can be spun into rope, and a ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Hurricanes not likely to disrupt ocean carbon balance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hurricanes are well known for the trail of damage and debris they can leave on land, but less known for the invisible trail left over the ocean by their gale-force winds — a trail of carbon ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Satellites and submarines give the skinny on sea ice thickness
This summer, a group of scientists and students — as well as a Canadian senator, a writer, and a filmmaker — set out from Resolute Bay, Canada, on the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. They were headed through ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Orion drop test on Jan. 06, 2012
(PhysOrg.com) -- After six months of testing, an 18,000 pound (8,165 kg) Orion mockup took its final splash into NASA Langley Research Center's Hydro Impact Basin on Jan. 6.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Diamonds pinpoint start of colliding continents
Jewelers abhor diamond impurities, but they are a bonanza for scientists. Safely encased in the super-hard diamond, impurities are unaltered, ancient minerals that can tell the story of Earth's distant past. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Seamounts may serve as refuges for deep-sea animals that struggle to survive elsewhere
Over the last two decades, marine biologists have discovered lush forests of deep-sea corals and sponges growing on seamounts (underwater mountains) offshore of the California coast. It has generally been ...
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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Questions about incredible sea turtle migration answered
Immediately after emerging from their underground nests on the lush beaches of eastern Florida, loggerhead sea turtles scramble into the sea and embark alone on a migration that takes them around the entire ...
May 15, 2012 |
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