News tagged with ocean floor
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Volcanic eruptions may split Africa: scientists
Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two owing to a recent geological crack in northeastern Ethiopia, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Nov 03, 2009 |
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Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain
(AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Computer model documents the history of the West Antarctic ice sheet
(PhysOrg.com) -- One major threat of planetary warming is the melting of the great polar ice sheets, and the resulting rise in global sea level. Particularly worrisome to researchers is the fragility of the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Water in Earth's mantle may be associated with subduction
A team of scientists from Oregon State University has created the first global three-dimensional map of electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle and their model suggests that that enhanced conductivity ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Digging for answers to climate change
Forty miles off the Jersey Shore, an international team of scientists is grappling with a worrisome phenomenon: The oceans are slowly rising. The researchers are not studying the sea itself. Living for weeks at a time on ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2009 |
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Wind + water = untapped energy: An abundance of power exists above Earth's oceans, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind energy over the planet's oceans is a vastly underutilized renewable resource, according to UC Irvine researchers.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Geographic profiling applied to track hunting patterns of white sharks in South Africa
Predation is one of the most fundamental and fascinating interactions in nature, and sharks are some of the fiercest predators on Earth. However, their hunting pattern is difficult to study because it is rarely ...
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Scientists document fate of huge oil slicks from seeps at coal oil point
Twenty years ago, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez was exiting Alaska's Prince William Sound when it struck a reef in the middle of the night. What happened next is considered one of the nation's worst environmental ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 13, 2009 |
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Disappearing act of world's second largest fish explained
Researchers have discovered where basking sharks - the world's second largest fish - hide out for half of every year, according to a report published today in Current Biology. The discovery revises scient ...
May 07, 2009 |
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Sea Urchins' Digging Teeth are Designed to Stay Sharp
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sea urchins dig themselves hiding holes in the limestone of the ocean floor using teeth that don’t go blunt. Weizmann Institute scientists have now revealed their secrets, which might give engineers insights ...
May 04, 2009 |
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In Ocean's Depths, Heat-Loving 'Extremophile' Evolves a Strange Molecular Trick
(PhysOrg.com) -- Making its home near extreme temperatures of thermal vents on the ocean floor, the organism Methanopyrus kandleri harbors a molecular secret that intrigues evolutionary biologists and even ...
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Tahiti corals clue to 'dynamic' glaciers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossilised corals from tropical Tahiti show that the behaviour of ice sheets is much more volatile and dynamic than previously thought, a team led by Oxford University scientists has found.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Exploring hidden life’s abundance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two miles below the surface of the Sargasso Sea lies a depression in the Earth’s crust filled with sediment and, scientists believe, teeming with life — exotic, microscopic, and very likely ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2009 |
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No joy in discoveries of new mammal species -- only a warning for humanity, Paul Ehrlich says
In the era of global warming, when many scientists say we are experiencing a human-caused mass extinction to rival the one that killed off the dinosaurs, one might think that the discovery of a host of new species would be ...
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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Decline of carbon-dioxide-gobbling plankton coincided with ancient global cooling
(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of diatoms -- abundant oceanic plankton that remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year -- needs to be rewritten, according to a new Cornell ...
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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