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New Ice Age maps point to climate change patterns
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New climate maps of the Earth’s surface during the height of the last Ice Age support predictions that northern Australia will become wetter and southern Australia drier due to climate change.
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Man-made changes bring about new epoch in Earth's history
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Jan 25, 2008 |
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Geologists from the University of Leicester propose that humankind has so altered the Earth that it has brought about an end to one epoch of Earth’s history and marked the start of a new epoch.
End of an Era: New Ruling Decides the Boundaries of Earth's History
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Sep 22, 2009 |
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After decades of debate and four years of investigation an international body of earth scientists has formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary age by 800,000 years, reports the Journal of ...
Scientists uncover miscalculation in geological undersea record
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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The precise timing of the origin of life on Earth and the changes in life during the past 4.5 billion years has been a subject of great controversy for the past century. The principal indicator of the amount of organic carbon ...
Global monsoon drives long-term carbon cycles in the ocean
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May 08, 2009 |
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Monsoon is a global system, and many arrays of evidence indicate that it drives long-term cyclicity of the carbon reservoir in the global ocean. The new view is introduced in a substantial paper in Issue 7 (April 2009) of ...
Scientists complete first geological global map of Jupiter's satellite Ganymede
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of the Solar System’s largest moon - and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, icy satellite.
Bedrock of a holy city: the historical importance of Jerusalem's geology
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Jerusalem's geology has been crucial in molding it into one of the most religiously important cities on the planet, according to a new study.
Core blimey! Scientist calls for geological 'time machine'
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Feb 04, 2008 |
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A geologist from the University of Leicester has proposed an immense (1.5km) exhibition to illustrate the vastness of geological time and to give a vivid perspective of how quickly human activity is changing the climate.
War from the ground up
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Oct 01, 2008 |
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The connection between geology and the history of the Civil War has fascinated Robert Whisonant since his undergraduate days, and now Whisonant has teamed up with geomorphologist Judy Ehlen, both of Radford University, to ...
Pterodactyl-inspired robot to master air, ground and sea
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts have reached back in time 115 million ...
Microfossils disclose geologic history of eastern California
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Oct 04, 2007 |
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The Bird Spring Shelf in southeastern California and basins to the west reveal a complex history of late Paleozoic sedimentation, sea-level changes, and deformation along the western North American continental margin. A new ...
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