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Glacial Erosion Changes Mountain Responses To Plate Tectonics
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Nov 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Intense glacial erosion has not only carved the surface of the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the spectacular St. Elias range in Alaska, but has elicited a structural response from ...
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Preserved by ice: Glacial dams helped prevent erosion of Tibetan plateau
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Oct 08, 2008 |
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The Tsangpo River is the highest major river in the world, starting at 14,500 feet elevation and plunging to the Bay of Bengal, scouring huge amounts of rock and soil along the way. Yet in its upper reaches, ...
Are the Alps growing or shrinking?
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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The Alps are growing just as quickly in height, as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result could be proven by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists. Due to glaciers and rivers about exactly the same amount of material ...
GPS helps locate soil erosion pathways
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Grassed waterways are placed in agricultural fields where runoff water tends to concentrate because they can substantially reduce soil erosion. Mapping techniques that help identify where erosion channels will likely form ...
Biofuel from Corn Stover
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How much corn crop residue, or stover, can be removed for biofuels without harming soil? An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study of a 10-mile circle around the University of Minnesota’s ...
Mars Express zeroes in on erosion features
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express has uncovered geological evidence suggesting that some depositional process, revealed by erosion, has been at work on large scales in the equatorial regions of the planet. If ...
Humans causing erosion comparable to world's largest rivers and glaciers
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds that large-scale farming projects can erode the Earth's surface at rates comparable to those of the world's largest rivers and glaciers.
Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest
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May 05, 2009 |
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The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently includ ...
Sea level is rising along US Atlantic coast, say environmental scientists
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century ...
How to manage erosion caused by everyday beverages
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Researchers have warned people to beware of the damage that acidic beverages have on teeth. Yet, for some, the damage and problems associated with drinking sodas, citric juices or certain tea may have already begun to take ...
A novel, 10,000-year study of strata compaction and sea-level rise on English coast
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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Environmental scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Durham University have employed a novel combination of geological and model reconstructions of wetland environments during a 10,000-year period ...
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