News tagged with seismic anisotropy
Predicting the big one
(PhysOrg.com) -- Predicting when a volcano will erupt is the aim of advanced research currently being undertaken by Victoria University's School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences.
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Lenses can bend light and sound in almost any direction
(PhysOrg.com) -- When an optical fiber is bent by 90° or more, the light begins to leak away, posing a problem for fiber optics communications. But by using special lenses that can bend light by not only ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Scientists recreate extreme conditions deep in Earth's interior
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University scientists have recreated the tremendous pressures and high temperatures deep in the Earth to resolve a long-standing puzzle: why some ...
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Sep 23, 2010 |
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North American continent is a layer cake, scientists discover
(PhysOrg.com) -- The North American continent is not one thick, rigid slab, but a layer cake of ancient, 3 billion-year-old rock on top of much newer material probably less than 1 billion years old, according ...
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Aug 25, 2010 |
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Researchers confirm discovery of Earth's inner, innermost core
Geologists at the University of Illinois have confirmed the discovery of Earth’s inner, innermost core, and have created a three-dimensional model that describes the seismic anisotropy and texturing of iron ...
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Computer simulations strongly support new theory of Earth's core
Swedish researchers present in today’s Web edition of the journal Science evidence that their theory about the core of the earth is correct. Among other applications, the findings may be of significance for ou ...
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Feb 08, 2008 |
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All change at the Earth's core
It is hard to know what is going on over 3000 km beneath our feet, but until recently scientists were fairly confident that they understood the way the iron atoms in the Earth’s core packed together. However, ...
Aug 16, 2007 |
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New picture of Earth's lower mantle
Laboratory measurements of a high-pressure mineral believed to exist deep within the Earth show that the mineral may not, as geophysicists hoped, have the right properties to explain a mysterious layer lying just above the ...
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Jun 21, 2007 |
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ETH crystallographers explain seismic anisotropy of Earth's D-layer
ETH Zürich researchers discovered a very unusual mechanism of plastic deformation in the Earth's mantle. Furthermore, they have predicted a new family of mantle minerals. These discoveries shed new light on ...
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May 11, 2006 |
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