News tagged with seismic wave
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Yellowstone's plumbing exposed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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The strange rubbing boulders of the Atacama
A geologist's sharp eyes and upset stomach has led to the discovery, and almost too-close encounter, with an otherworldly geological process operating in a remote corner of northern Chile's Atacama Desert.
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Oct 11, 2011 |
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Scientists probe Earth's core
We know more about distant galaxies than we do about the interior of our own planet. However, by observing distant earthquakes, researchers at the University of Calgary have revealed new clues about the top ...
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Apr 28, 2010 |
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Electric Yellowstone: Conductivity image hints volcano plume is bigger than thought
University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2011 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2010 |
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The Earth's hidden weakness
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three thousand kilometres beneath our feet, the Earth's solid rock gives way to the swirling liquid iron of the outer core.
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May 28, 2010 |
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Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hawaii may be paradise for vacationers, but for geologists it has long been a puzzle. Plate tectonic theory readily explains the existence of volcanoes at boundaries where plates split apart ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Impact study: Princeton model shows fallout of a giant meteorite strike
(PhysOrg.com) -- Seeking to better understand the level of death and destruction that would result from a large meteorite striking the Earth, Princeton University researchers have developed a new model that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2011 |
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New way to track quakes
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Edinburgh scientists have developed a new technique to monitor movements beneath the Earth's surface.
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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New scenery at Earth's core-mantle boundary found
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a diamond-anvil cell to recreate the high pressures deep within the earth, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found unusual properties in an iron-rich magnesium- and ...
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Sep 02, 2010 |
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Sichuan quake was once-in-4,000-year event: scientists
People who were killed, injured or bereaved in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the cruel misfortune to be victims of an event that probably occurs just once in four millennia, seismologists said on Sunday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2009 |
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Looking inside the Earth
(Phys.org) -- Defects found in rocks below the Earth’s surface have a major impact on the transmission of seismic waves, such as those caused by earthquakes, researchers at The Australian National University ...
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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New understanding of Earth's lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the Pacific Ocean
Scientists have long speculated about why there is a large change in the strength of rocks that lie at the boundary between two layers immediately under Earth's crust: the lithosphere and underlying asthenosphere. ...
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Fingerprinting slow earthquakes (w/Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The most powerful earthquakes happen at the junction of two converging tectonic plates, where one plate is sliding (or subducting) beneath the other. Now a team of researchers, led by Teh-Ru ...
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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Distant earthquakes can trigger deep slow fault slip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers examining the San Andreas Fault in central California have found evidence that distant earthquakes can trigger episodes of accelerated (but still very slow) slip motion, deep on the fault.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2011 |
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