An international research team has discovered an intense warming phase around 52 million years ago in drill cores obtained from the seafloor near Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's plants and animals ...
Earth Sciences
May 3, 2012
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Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns."
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2011
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An international team of scientists, led by Dr Stephen Barker of Cardiff University, has produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years.
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New samples of rock and sediment from the depths of the eastern Pacific Ocean may help explain the cause of large, destructive earthquakes similar to the Tohoku Earthquake that struck Japan in mid-March.
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2011
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Permafrost dating from the end of the last Ice Age around 13,000 years ago recently discovered in Poland could prove an invaluable tool in gauging global warming, Polish geologists said on Friday.
Earth Sciences
Aug 6, 2010
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It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009
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Lake Van in eastern Turkey is considered a unique climate archive. Several years ago, an international team of scientists led by the University of Bonn raised sediments from the bottom of the lake reflecting the past 600,000 ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2019
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Lingering motion sickness is one of the occupational hazards of working at sea off the coast of Japan for three weeks. Hiroki Sone can attest to that, having spent part of the fall 2018 semester on the deepest scientific ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2019
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It's stunning but true that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the Earth's ocean floor. Much of what we do know has come from scientific ocean drilling – the systematic collection of core samples from ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2018
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