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.
(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.
Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2009
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An international team of scientists have shed new light on the world's history of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2012
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Research into submarine volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean will lay the groundwork for scientists to map the Earth as it was millions of years ago.
Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2011
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Scientists recently concluded an expedition aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution to learn more about Atlantis Massif, an undersea mountain, or seamount, that formed in a very different way than the majority of the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2012
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An international research team will use the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu to bore into an area where two tectonic plates meet to study the movements of the plates that caused the Great East Japan Earthquake, according to ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2011
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Deepsea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU has resumed IODP drilling operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the Kii Peninsula of Japan. The scientific drilling expedition's first target is located in water depths of 2,054 ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and unknown to science: the igneous ocean crust.
Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2012
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On July 16, 2012, Chikyu, operations in the second part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), achieved another objective by installing temperature sensors across the plate ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2012
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With the successful retrieval of a string of instruments from deep beneath the seafloor, an international team of scientists has completed an unprecedented series of operations to obtain crucial temperature measurements of ...
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2013
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Despite harsh weather and ocean conditions, and complex geological characteristics of its drill site, the deep-sea drilling vessel CHIKYU, for the first time in the history of scientific ocean drilling, conducted riser-drilling ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2009
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