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Geology News And Research - June 2008 Archives


Study hopes to crack the code on how ice flows (6/30/2008)

How ice breaks up may be important factor in climate change prediction models ...> Full Article


Volcano 'pollution' solves mercury mystery (6/29/2008)

Volcano 'pollution' solves mercury mysteryScientists have discovered how volatile metals from volcanoes end up in polar ice cores. ...> Full Article


Geothermal energy support heats up (6/28/2008)

The University of Adelaide has welcomed today's announcement by the State Government offering further support to fast-track research and development of geothermal technology. ...> Full Article


Rapid Climate Change: past; present; future (6/27/2008)

Key findings from an ambitious research project that provided the first 'early detection system' for climate changes in the Atlantic Ocean ...> Full Article


Fire under the ice (6/26/2008)

Fire under the iceInternational expedition discovers gigantic volcanic eruption in the Arctic Ocean ...> Full Article


Mini subs to probe odd structures in BC lake (6/23/2008)

Single person submersibles have been called in to help scientists retrieve samples from a lake in northern British Columbia that may hold vital clues to the history of life on Earth and on other planets ...> Full Article


Ice cores map dynamics of sudden climate changes (6/22/2008)

Ice cores map dynamics of sudden climate changesNew, extremely detailed data from investigations of ice cores from Greenland show that the climate shifted very suddenly and changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. ...> Full Article


Scientists Detail the Effects of Climate Change on Extreme Weather in North America (6/22/2008)

Droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense hurricanes are likely to become more commonplace ...> Full Article


Iron Isotope Composition in Lava Lake Points to Possible Ways to Trace Planetary Origins (6/21/2008)

Iron Isotope Composition in Lava Lake Points to Possible Ways to Trace Planetary OriginsScientists have found differences in the iron isotope composition of basalts from a lava lake in Hawaii that point to new ways of studying the origins of the earth and other planets. ...> Full Article


Active submarine volcanoes found near Fiji (6/20/2008)

Active submarine volcanoes found near FijiSeveral huge active submarine volcanoes, spreading ridges and rift zones have been discovered northeast of Fiji ...> Full Article


Ocean temperatures and sea level increases 50 percent higher than earlier predictions (6/19/2008)

Ocean temperatures and sea level increases 50 percent higher than earlier predictionsNew research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. ...> Full Article


Pyrite deposits across the state may be tied to an Eocene meteor (6/18/2008)

Pyrite deposits across the state may be tied to an Eocene meteorMysterious sulfide deposit caused by meteor that crashed 35 million years ago smack into Chesapeake Bay ...> Full Article


Ebb and flow of the sea drives world's big extinction events (6/17/2008)

The oceans epic ebbs and flows of sea level and sediment over the course of geologic time, that is the primary cause of the world's periodic mass extinctions during the past 500 million years ...> Full Article


Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice Shelf (6/16/2008)

Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice ShelfWilkins Ice Shelf has experienced further break-up with an area of about 160 km² breaking off from 30 May to 31 May 2008. ESA’s Envisat satellite captured the event â€" the first ever-documented episode to occur in winter. ...> Full Article


New mineral named for astronomer (6/16/2008)

The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a University of Washington astronomer ...> Full Article


Rocky water source (6/15/2008)

Water from rock, easier than blood from stone ...> Full Article


Ancient mineral shows early Earth climate tough on continents (6/15/2008)

Ancient mineral shows early Earth climate tough on continentsA new analysis of ancient minerals called zircons suggests that a harsh climate may have scoured and possibly even destroyed the surface of the Earth's earliest continents. ...> Full Article


Greenland Ice Sheet runoff may more than double by century's end (6/14/2008)

The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously calculated ...> Full Article


Fossils found in Tibet by geologist revise history of elevation, climate (6/14/2008)

Fossils found in Tibet by geologist revise history of elevation, climateGeologist surprised to find thick layers of ancient lake sediment filled with plant, fish and animal fossils typical of far lower elevations and warmer, wetter climates. ...> Full Article


Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice (6/13/2008)

Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea IceThe rate of climate warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia could more than triple during periods of rapid sea ice loss ...> Full Article


Diamonds Are Forever Revealing New Insights into Earth's Development (6/12/2008)

Diamonds Are Forever Revealing New Insights into Earth's DevelopmentNew research in South Africa shows possible explanation for how Bushveld platinum ores were created ...> Full Article


Cutting edge research to uncover oil fields which have lain untapped for 40 million years (6/12/2008)

Cutting edge research to uncover oil fields which have lain untapped for 40 million yearsNew help unearthing major potential new oil fields which have lain undiscovered and untapped for over 40 million years. ...> Full Article


Mystery of Infamous 'New England Dark Day' Solved by Tree Rings (6/11/2008)

Black day of 1780 caused by distant wildfires ...> Full Article


Report confirms drilling, not earthquake, caused Java mud volcano (6/10/2008)

A mud volcano which has caused millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the drilling of a gas exploration well ...> Full Article


$32 Million Contract From NASA To Manage Snow And Ice Data System (6/9/2008)

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a five-year, $32 million contract from NASA to manage and operate a sophisticated data system charting global phenomena like sea ice, ice shelves, ice sheets, glaciers and snow cover. ...> Full Article


'Time Machine' Lab Could Propel New Research (6/8/2008)

High-precision thermal ionization mass spectrometer will help geoscientists explore the ancient worlds of the deep geological past and allow these researchers to determine the ages of rocks that are millions to billions of years old. ...> Full Article


Volcano taming (6/8/2008)

Could geochemistry save lives during volcanic eruptions? ...> Full Article


A survivor in Greenland: A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice (6/7/2008)

A survivor in Greenland: A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old iceScientists have discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles ...> Full Article


Andes Mountains grew in rapid spurts, not slowly, researcher says (6/6/2008)

Andes Mountains grew in rapid spurts, not slowly, researcher saysMountain building may occur in faster fits and spurts than previously realized ...> Full Article


Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically (6/5/2008)

Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismicallySeismologists have found seismic signals from a giant river of ice in Antarctica that make California's earthquake problem seem trivial. ...> Full Article


Enforcing scientific governance over seismic forecasts (6/4/2008)

Scholars called for the scientific management of seismic hazards at a symposium held recently by the Center for Policy Simulation under the CAS Institute of Policy and Management. ...> Full Article


Fatal Mine Collapse Covered 50 Acres (6/3/2008)

Fatal Mine Collapse Covered 50 AcresDisaster began near where miners worked ...> Full Article


New geomorphological index created for studying the active tectonics of mountains (6/2/2008)

New geomorphological index created for studying the active tectonics of mountainsActive tectonics comprise the most up-to-date deformation processes that affect the Earth's crust, resulting in earthquakes or recent deformations in the planet's faults and folds ...> Full Article


Researchers Uncover 'Stirring' Secrets of Deadly Supervolcanoes (6/2/2008)

Researchers have simulated in the lab the process that can turn ordinary volcanic eruptions into so-called "supervolcanoes." ...> Full Article


Bacteria 'Feed' on Earth's Ocean-Bottom Crust (6/1/2008)

Bacteria 'Feed' on Earth's Ocean-Bottom CrustRocks on and under seafloor offer feast for microbes ...> Full Article


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