Geology News And Research Archives Page 4

Scientists identified earthquake faults in Sichuan, China (5/19/2008)

Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthquake, making them potentially serious sources of regional seismic hazard." ...> Full Article

Funding to study earthquake region (5/18/2008)

A major research consortium has just started to investigate the causes of devastating earthquakes in south-east Asia ...> Full Article

Geosciences Professor Measuring Aftershocks of China Earthquake (5/18/2008)

Professor and students study seismic activity of critical area near China's largest hydroelectric dam. ...> Full Article

Earthquake Engineering Conference (5/17/2008)

Experts on earthquake engineering and simulation will meet at the Sacramento Convention Center May 18-22 ...> Full Article

Studies confirm greenhouse mechanisms even further into past (5/17/2008)

The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link between greenhouse gas levels and global warming ...> Full Article

Ice cores reveal fluctuations in the Earth's greenhouse gases (5/16/2008)

Ice cores from Antarctica show both the lowest atmospheric content of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and fast changes in the content of CH4 (methane) measured over the past 800,000 years. ...> Full Article

Scientists aim to unlock deep-sea 'secrets' of Earth's crust (5/15/2008)

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

Hot climate could shut down plate tectonics (5/13/2008)

With locked crust, Earth could become another Venus ...> Full Article

Chilean volcano captured blasting ash (5/12/2008)

Chile's Chaiten Volcano is shown spewing ash and smoke into the air for hundreds of km over Argentina's Patagonia Plateau ...> Full Article

As Climate Warms, Underwater Deserts Grow in Tropical Oceans (5/11/2008)

Oxygen-poor waters are expanding in tropical regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ...> Full Article

Modelling the impact of the Severn Tidal Power Project (5/11/2008)

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. ...> Full Article

Climate Models Overheat Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research (5/10/2008)

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

Expert predicts 'Monsoon Britain' (5/9/2008)

Prepare for more floods - in ways we are not used to ...> Full Article

Global Climate Models Both Agree and Disagree With Actual Antarctic Data (5/8/2008)

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. ...> Full Article

First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety (5/7/2008)

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

Chile's Erupting Chaiten Volcano One Of Scores Of Active Volcanoes In Region (5/7/2008)

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

Innovative technology provides insight into what's below the Earth's surface (5/6/2008)

New technology which provides images from below the Earth's surface has been unveiled ...> Full Article

65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads (5/6/2008)

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

Researchers Predict 59 Percent Chance Of Record Low Arctic Sea Ice In 2008 (5/5/2008)

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

Duo develops framework for Earth's interior (5/4/2008)

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

An earthquake's aftermath (5/3/2008)

Class works to get Peruvian town back on its foundations ...> Full Article

Scientists Head to Warming Alaska on Ice Core Expedition (5/2/2008)

Scientists on the second leg of a multi-year mission to recover ice cores from glaciers in the Alaska wilderness ...> Full Article

Geochemist Challenges Key Theory Regarding Earth's Formation (5/2/2008)

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. ...> Full Article

Scientists Discover New Ocean Current (5/1/2008)

Scientists have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation ...> Full Article

Mapping Earth's soil moisture (5/1/2008)

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

On Shaky Ground: Geological Faults Threaten Houston (4/30/2008)

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

Formation of ice sheets 34 million years ago changed ocean acidity (4/29/2008)

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. ...> Full Article

'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History (4/29/2008)

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. ...> Full Article

Twenty years of the Alaska Volcano Observatory (4/28/2008)

Volcanologists keep track of 30 volcanoes in Alaska ...> Full Article

Refining the date of dinosaur extinction (4/27/2008)

Improved rock-dating method pinpoints dinosaur demise with unprecedented precision ...> Full Article