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The Amazon River is 11 million years old
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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 ...
First riser-drilling research operations undertaken in Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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Deepsea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU has resumed IODP drilling operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the Kii Peninsula of Japan. The scientific drilling expedition's first target is located in water depths of 2,054 ...
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'Electronic ears' to guide mining drills
Apr 29, 2008 |
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CSIRO scientists with the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship have successfully used an electronic listening post to track and control a drill operating more than 300 metres below the Earth’s surface.
Successful completion of first riser-drilling operations in earthquake zone
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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 ...
Scientists return from first ever riser drilling operations in seismogenic zone
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Sep 04, 2009 |
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The Deep-sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU successfully completed riser drilling operations on Aug. 31, for IODP Expedition 319, Stage 2 of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE). The CHIKYU ...
Scientists drill quake hole two miles deep
Apr 19, 2006 |
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Geologists are drilling miles into the Earth to prepare for an earthquake such as the 7.9 magnitude quake that struck San Francisco April 18, 1906.
Intelligent use of the Earth's heat
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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Geothermal energy is increasingly contributing to the power supply world wide. Iceland is world-leader in expanding development of geothermal utilization: in recent years the annual power supply here doubled ...
Scientists' Drill Hits Magma: Only Third Time on Record
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drilling a borehole deep into Iceland’s rocky crust to explore new methods of using geothermal energy hit a major roadblock on Thursday: Their drill ran into molten rock at a depth ...
Closing in on old ironstone pollution problem
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Pollution experts at Teeside University, UK, are close to solving a problem which has led to over 100 tonnes of discharges from old iron stone mine workings pouring into the Noth Sea every year.
Mud volcano in Java may continue to erupt for months and possibly years
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Jan 24, 2007 |
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The first scientific report into the causes and impact of Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, reveals that the 2006 eruption will continue to erupt and spew out between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres of mud a day for months, ...
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 ...
Erupting mud volcano
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Feb 02, 2007 |
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University of Aberdeen research supports the suggestion that the eruption of the Indonesian mud volcano Lusi, which has been erupting for more than 200 days, was caused by drilling for hydrocarbons.
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