News tagged with rock structures
Construction of new rock spawning reefs will help Great Lakes native fish
(Phys.org) -- The first of nine rock reefs is under construction in the St. Clair River delta northeast of Detroit. The goal of the project, which is led by Michigan Sea Grant, is to boost populations of lake ...
May 14, 2012 |
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Dawn spacecraft reveals secrets of giant asteroid Vesta
(Phys.org) -- Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure. ...
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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New report questions hard-edged 'living shorelines' in estuaries
The increasing use of large breakwaters and other hard structures to reduce erosion in "living shorelines" along coastal estuaries may be no better for the environment than the ecologically harmful bulkheads they were designed ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Scientists say that microbial mats built 3.4-billion-year-old stromatolites
Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology ...
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A legacy of the race to the south pole: New scientific discoveries in Antarctica
(Phys.org) -- This winter marks the 100th anniversary of the race to the South Pole. After crossing Antarctica-the coldest, windiest, driest continent on Earth-the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his ...
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Jun 01, 2012 |
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Grazing snails rule the waves: marine study
(Phys.org) -- Coral reefs and seashores largely look the way they do because large fish and urchins eat most of the seaweed that might otherwise cover them, but a major new study has found that the greatest ...
May 31, 2012 |
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'Like a jet through solid rock': Volcanic arc fed by rapid fluid pulses
In the depths of the earth, it is anything but peaceful: large quantities of liquids carve their way through the rock as fluids, causing magma to form. A research team led by the University of Münster, ...
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May 31, 2012 |
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Plump up the clay: Carbon dioxide moves into and expands a common mineral in carbon sequestration caprocks
(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have direct evidence that high-pressure carbon dioxide or CO2 migrates into the clay montmorillonite causing it to expand, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest ...
May 18, 2012 |
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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.
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May 17, 2012 |
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Facebook IPO to bring cash and change
Facebook makes its hotly anticipated stock market debut this week in a history-making move promising wealth for insiders and change for users of the online social network.
May 15, 2012 |
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New research on seaweeds shows it takes more than being flexible to survive crashing waves
Seaweeds are important foundational species that are vital both as food and habitat to many aquatic and terrestrial shore organisms. Yet seaweeds that cling to rocky shores are continually at risk of being ...
May 10, 2012 |
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You're beautiful, Vesta
When UCLA's Christopher T. Russell looks at the images of the protoplanet Vesta produced by NASA's Dawn mission, he talks about beauty as much as he talks about science.
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May 10, 2012 |
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JUICE is Europe's next large science mission
(Phys.org) -- Jupiter’s icy moons are the focus of Europe’s next large science mission.
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May 03, 2012 |
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Microbes go rafting on floating volcanic rocks
Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoing volcanic event to see how microbes move in. ...
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May 01, 2012 |
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