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Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Liverpool have discovered that the Amazon river, and its transcontinental drainage, is around 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago.
The Amazon River is 11 million years old
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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The Amazon River originated as a transcontinental river around 11 million years ago and took its present shape approximately 2.4 million years ago. These are the most significant results of a study on two ...
Energy From Hot Rocks
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Two UC Davis geologists are taking part in the Iceland Deep Drilling Project, an international effort to learn more about the potential of geothermal energy, or extracting heat from rocks.
Deep-sea drilling yields clues to mega-earthquakes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2007 |
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During a successful first expedition to one of the most active earthquake fault zones on the planet, scientists unearthed initial clues to the geophysical fault properties that may underlie devastating earthquakes and tsunamis.
Locations of strain, slip identified in major earthquake fault
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Deep-sea drilling into one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet is providing the first direct look at the geophysical fault properties underlying some of the world's largest earthquakes and tsunamis.
Microhole technology produces new tools
Jan 22, 2007 |
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The U.S. Department of Energy says new technology being developed for its 2-year-old Microhole Initiative is yielding new tools.
Patagonian glacier yields clues for improved understanding of global climate change
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Aug 04, 2008 |
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Although ice cores obtained from Antarctica have now provided more than 800 000 years’ worth of climate records, analysis of them alone is insufficient for understanding the history of climatic interactions between the diverse ...
New gas sensors for monitoring carbon dioxide sinks
May 08, 2008 |
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A novel gas sensor system makes it possible to monitor large areas cost-effectively the first time. The patented gas sensor is based on the principle of diffusion, according to which certain gases pass through ...
Typhoons trigger earthquakes on Taiwan: scientists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Surprised scientists say that typhoons which hit Taiwan unleash long, slow earthquakes, a phenomenon that may save the island from devastating temblors.
Scientists obtain core samples from subsea fault system off Japan
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Feb 05, 2008 |
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The third expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) completed its mission off the Kii Peninsula today. The expedition science party, 26 scientists representing ...
Ground gas gizmo boosts brownfield building
Jun 25, 2007 |
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An invention from the University of Manchester spin-out company that monitors dangerous methane gas lingering underground could lead to greater development of brownfield sites.
Global warming goes deep
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2006 |
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With theaters everywhere screening Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," and the National Research Council issuing a new report on global warming, you'd have to be hiding under a rock to be unaware that Earth is heating ...
Successful completion of first riser-drilling operations in earthquake zone
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Despite harsh weather and ocean conditions, and complex geological characteristics of its drill site, the deep-sea drilling vessel CHIKYU, for the first time in the history of scientific ocean drilling, conducted riser-drilling ...
Researchers probe undersea earthquake zone
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2007 |
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Over the next five years, an international team of scientists will drill deep into the Earth's crust off the shore of Japan to understand how undersea earthquakes are generated and to establish a series of permanent undersea ...
Earth's heat adds to climate change to melt Greenland ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice.
