Geology News & Research
 | Scientists to use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth's crust. ...> Full Article |
With locked crust, Earth could become another Venus
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 | Chile's Chaiten Volcano is shown spewing ash and smoke into the air for hundreds of km over Argentina's Patagonia Plateau ...> Full Article |
 | Oxygen-poor waters are expanding in tropical regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ...> Full Article |
Researchers are making it possible to more accurately predict the impact of using the world's second highest tidal range as a source of energy.
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 | Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ohio State University. ...> Full Article |
Prepare for more floods - in ways we are not used to
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Scientists who compared recorded Antarctic temperatures and snowfall accumulation to predictions by major computer models of global climate change offer both good and bad news.
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 | Knowing the structure and detailed composition of soil carbon could provide a better understanding of the chemical processes that cycle organic matter in soil. ...> Full Article |
 | The Chaiten volcano now erupting in southern Chile is one of 200 to 300 volcanoes in the "Andean Arc" region of Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia considered active by volcanologists, some of which lie in much more densely populated areas ...> Full Article |
 | New technology which provides images from below the Earth's surface has been unveiled ...> Full Article |
 | The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed the planet ...> Full Article |
 | Calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three-in-five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of continued warming temperatures and a preponderance of younger, thinner ice. ...> Full Article |
 | A new model of inner Earth constructed by Arizona State University researchers pulls past information and hypotheses into a coherent story to clarify mantle motion. ...> Full Article |
 | Class works to get Peruvian town back on its foundations ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists on the second leg of a multi-year mission to recover ice cores from glaciers in the Alaska wilderness ...> Full Article |
Researcher calls into question three decades of conventional wisdom regarding some of the physical processes that helped shape the Earth as we know it today.
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 | Science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation ...> Full Article |
 | After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a University of Houston geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region's builders and city planners. ...> Full Article |
Before ice first began to form in Antarctica around 34 million years ago, the Earth was a very different place - but then greenhouse conditions swiftly gave way to an icehouse climate, causing the oceans to become less acidic.
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Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at will give scientists a close-up look at fluctuations that occurred in Antarctica's ice sheet and marine and terrestrial life as the climate cooled considerably between 20 and 14 million years ago.
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 | Volcanologists keep track of 30 volcanoes in Alaska ...> Full Article |
 | Improved rock-dating method pinpoints dinosaur demise with unprecedented precision ...> Full Article |
 | To the surprise of many, the earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, originated in the Wabash Valley Fault and not the better-known and more-dreaded New Madrid Fault in Missouri's bootheel. ...> Full Article |
Researcher cites a need for more investigation into a mysterious disappearance of Earth's largest creatures and the humans that pursued them
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 | The shrinking expanse of Arctic sea ice is increasingly vulnerable to summer sunshine ...> Full Article |
The 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina in Peru had a global impact on human society
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 | Sierra Nevada rose to current height earlier than thought, geologists say ...> Full Article |
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