News tagged with continental margins
Scientists develop model to map continental margins
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new exploration method to assist the oil and gas industry in identifying more precisely where the oceans and continents meet.
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Bias in the rock record?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The fossil record is known to be biased by the unevenness of geographical and stratigraphical sampling, and the lack of exposed rocks containing fossils. In a recent Perspective in Science [2 Jan ...
Global strategy for investigating Earth's geodynamics emerges from international collaboration
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Nov 14, 2006 |
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Fifty-one researchers, prominent Earth scientists representing 15 countries, gathered recently in Switzerland to forge a global strategy for advancing understanding of continental rifting and break-up through the use of a ...
How Iron Gets into the North Pacific
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Mar 19, 2008 |
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Most oceanographers have assumed that, in the areas of the world's oceans known as High Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) regions, the iron needed to fertilize infrequent plankton blooms comes almost entirely ...
Warming ocean contributes to global warming
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Aug 14, 2009 |
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The warming of an Arctic current over the last 30 years has triggered the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from methane hydrate stored in the sediment beneath the seabed.
New geosciences model explains ocean formation
Mar 17, 2006 |
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Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences and the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, have developed a new model to explain how continents break apart to form new oceans. ...
Iron isotopes as a tool in oceanography
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Jul 31, 2009 |
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New research involving scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) highlights the potential utility of iron isotopes for addressing important questions in ocean science. The findings are published ...
Yahoo CEO pledges to boost profit margins
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance.
Paleozoic 'sediment curve' provides new tool for tracking sea-floor sediment movements
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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As the world looks for more energy, the oil industry will need more refined tools for discoveries in places where searches have never before taken place, geologists say.
The oceans as carbon dioxide sinks: increasing our understanding
Feb 15, 2006 |
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German and British scientists have studied the ocean off south-western Africa and have discovered that particles are transported to the deep ocean over thousands of years before being deposited on the seabed. This discovery ...
The Oceans As Carbon Dioxide Sinks Increasing Our Understanding
Feb 22, 2006 |
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German and British scientists have studied the ocean off south-western Africa and have discovered that particles are transported to the deep ocean over thousands of years before being deposited on the seabed. This discovery ...
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