The volcanic rock found in the south of León experienced a rotation of almost 60º 300 million years ago, an example of what could have occurred across the entire Iberian Peninsula when, in that moment, it was still being ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 4, 2016
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The only known wild jaguar in the United States is seen roaming around a creek and other parts of a mountain range in southern Arizona in the first publicly released video of the giant cat.
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2016
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Several brown bears in the Pyrenees mountains that separate Spain from France have ditched their usual hibernation for food as winter temperatures remain unusually clement, environment and animal experts said Thursday.
Ecology
Jan 21, 2016
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Three quakes, in 1100, 1255 and 1344, with magnitudes of around Mw 8 triggered large-scale collapses, mass wasting and initiated the redistribution of material by catastrophic debris flows on the mountain range.
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2015
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The wood in the monumental "great houses" built in Chaco Canyon by ancient Puebloans came from two different mountain ranges, according to new research from the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2015
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For millions of years global climate change has altered the structure and internal movement of mountain ranges, but the resulting glacial development and erosion can in turn change a mountain's local climate. The degree of ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 5, 2015
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On Aug. 19, 2015, a team of scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center organized the flight of an Alpha Jet to collect environmental data from two recent wildfires in California's Southern Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Earth Sciences
Sep 24, 2015
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A lizard lineage which has evolved over the last 19 million years has helped scientists to re-think one of the most important concepts of modern biology.
Evolution
Aug 10, 2015
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A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto's Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by New Horizons' ...
Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2015
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The second largest sand sea in the world, the Takliman Desert in central Asia influences geology, the global climate, and has even shaped the development of global human culture—the two branches of the Silk Road along its ...
