News tagged with drill cores

Scientists look to microbes to unlock Earth's deep secrets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and unknown to science: the igneous ocean crust.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gas hydrate strategy reinforced

Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns."

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created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

800,000 years of Greenland's abrupt climate variability

An international team of scientists, led by Dr Stephen Barker of Cardiff University, has produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years.

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created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Scientists study earthquake triggers in Pacific ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- New samples of rock and sediment from the depths of the eastern Pacific Ocean may help explain the cause of large, destructive earthquakes similar to the Tohoku Earthquake that struck Japan ...

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created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

URI oceanographer to lead return visit to least inhabited place on Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four University of Rhode Island oceanographers depart next week for an international research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre - an area that is as far from any continent as is possible ...

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created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ice age permafrost unearthed in Poland to help clock warming

Permafrost dating from the end of the last Ice Age around 13,000 years ago recently discovered in Poland could prove an invaluable tool in gauging global warming, Polish geologists said on Friday.

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created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 11

Ice core drilling effort to help assess abrupt climate change risks

An international science team involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that is working on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project hit bedrock July 27 after two summers of work, drilling down ...

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created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Deepest core drilled from Antarctic Peninsula; may contain glacial stage ice

Researchers here are hopeful that the new core they drilled through an ice field on the Antarctic Peninsula will contain ice dating back into the last ice age. If so, that record should give new insight into ...

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created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

As Greenland melts

Not that long ago - the blink of a geologic eye - global temperatures were so warm that ice on Greenland could have been hard to come by. Today, the largest island in the world is covered with ice 1.6 miles ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground

It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...

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created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Exploring hidden life’s abundance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two miles below the surface of the Sargasso Sea lies a depression in the Earth’s crust filled with sediment and, scientists believe, teeming with life — exotic, microscopic, and very likely ...

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0