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Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes
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Oct 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth ...
A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface
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May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected.
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Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hawaii may be paradise for vacationers, but for geologists it has long been a puzzle. Plate tectonic theory readily explains the existence of volcanoes at boundaries where plates split apart ...
First complete image created of Himalayan fault, subduction zone
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Sep 11, 2009 |
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An international team of researchers has created the most complete seismic image of the Earth's crust and upper mantle beneath the rugged Himalaya Mountains, in the process discovering some unusual geologic ...
Scientists Install Seismic Sensors in Galapagos to Generate First 3-D Images of a Hotspot Magma Plumbing System
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Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of geologists led by Cindy Ebinger of the University of Rochester have deployed 16 seismic sensors on one of the Galapagos Islands to study the processes of ocean island formation -- particularly those ...
Scientists deploy seismic network for study of Sierra Negra, Galapagos
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Aug 12, 2009 |
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Miami (UM), University of Rochester, University of Idaho-Moscow and the Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Quito, ...
Earth's biogeochemical cycles, once in concert, falling out of sync
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What do the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," global climate change, and acid rain have in common? They're all a result of human impacts to Earth's biology, chemistry and geology, and the natural ...
What goes down, must come up: Geoscientists offer new model for degassing of Earth's mantle
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May 27, 2009 |
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A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation.
Team first to record key event that breaks continents apart
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Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have captured for the first time a geological event considered key in shaping the Earth's landscape.
Why is the Earth's mantle conductive?
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from INSU-CNRS (France), working with chemists at a CNRS research unit, have explained that the high conductivity of the Earth's upper mantle is due to molten carbonates. They ...
Birth of a new ocean
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Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a remote part of northern Ethiopia, the Earth’s crust is being stretched to breaking point, providing geologists with a unique opportunity to watch the birth of what may eventually become ...
NASA Satellite Finds Interior of Mars Is Colder
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May 15, 2008 |
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New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought.
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