Geology News And Research - July 2008 Archives
 | Contrary to previous evidence, a new study shows the Isthmus of Panama was most likely formed by a Central American Peninsula colliding slowly with the South American continent through tectonic plate movement over millions of years. ...> Full Article |
 | A linear string of mud pots and mud volcanoes suggest surface evidence for a southern extension of the San Andreas Fault that runs through the Salton Sea ...> Full Article |
A snapshot of New Zealand's climate 40 million years ago reveals a greenhouse Earth, with warmer seas and little or no ice in Antarctica
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 | Latest technology examines aerosol particles in the sky ...> Full Article |
 | People near vulnerable creeks, streams, rivers may soon have advance notice ...> Full Article |
 | Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers have moved another step closer to explaining changes in the chemistry of the deep oceans – and the sudden appearance of large animal fossils – more than 500 million years ago. ...> Full Article |
 | Global warming could lead to larger changes in snowmelt in the western United States than was previously thought, possibly increasing wildfire risk and creating new water management challenges for agriculture, ecosystems and urban populations. ...> Full Article |
Geoscientists have come up with a new explanation for the formation of monsoons, proposing an overhaul of a theory about the cause of the seasonal pattern of heavy winds and rainfall that essentially had held firm for more than 300 years.
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 | Pipeline has delivered more than 16 billion barrels of oil since ...> Full Article |
A UC project to predict the location and volume of coseismic landslides has been awarded $30,000 funding by the Earthquake Commission
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Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil
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 | Joint drilling project is planned to reach a 1,200m-deep core in the alkaline region at the local sedimentation center of the west Qaidam sub-basin. Then combining with natural outcrops nearby the deep core, it is expected to reconstruct the high resolution and precision chronologic sequence and to confirm the occurrences of seismostratigraphic boundaries. ...> Full Article |
Seismic 'stress meter' registered signs of quake 10 hours in advance
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 | latest research into the question of whether the significant climate change event about 12,900 years ago known as Younger Dryas impacted the climate all around the globe ...> Full Article |
 | A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America hundreds of millions of years ago. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers are hoping for a unique glimpse into the workings of the massive Greenland ice sheet are undertaking the first unmanned aerial survey of the island's fast-flowing outlet glacier region. ...> Full Article |
 | New research says the Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. ...> Full Article |
 | For the first time, researchers have taken a detailed look at what lies beneath all of Iceland's volcanoes – and found a world far more complex than they ever imagined. ...> Full Article |
 | The speed of seismic waves is a measure of stress in rocks during -- and possibly before -- earthquakes ...> Full Article |
 | The ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer 2008 will lie, with almost 100 per cent probability, below that of the year 2005 ...> Full Article |
Researchers have devised a technology that can distinguish mine collapses from other seismic activity.
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 | The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. ...> Full Article |
 | A 150-meter ice core pulled from the McCall Glacier in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this summer may offer researchers their first quantitative look at up to two centuries of climate change in the region. ...> Full Article |
 | New early warning system being installed in Indonesia ...> Full Article |
Scientists have measured interesting changes in the speed of seismic waves that preceded two small earthquakes by 10 and 2 hours.
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A new mathematical model indicates that dust devils, water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones are all born of the same mechanism and will intensify as climate change warms the Earth's surface.
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Effects on the magnetic field
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The May 12 earthquake that rocked Sichuan Province in China was the first there in recorded history and unexpected in its magnitude. Now a team of geoscientists is looking at the potential for future earthquakes due to earthquake-induced changes in stress.
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Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years.
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 | Was the course of life on the planet altered 12,900 years ago by a giant comet exploding over Canada? New evidence suggests the answer is affirmative. ...> Full Article |
A class of powerful, invisible waves hidden beneath the surface of the ocean can shape the underwater edges of continents and contribute to ocean mixing and climate, researchers have found.
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 | Could be a long wait before next big temblor--or maybe not ...> Full Article |
 | New findings could pour cold water on evidence that climate change is happening simultaneously around the world. ...> Full Article |
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