News tagged with plate
New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected ...
Spotting evidence of directed percolation
Nov 17, 2009 |
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A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population ...
Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 09, 2009 |
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An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), ...
New Sumatra quake takes seismologists by surprise
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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The huge earthquake that hit Sumatra occurred at a deep, unexpected location, illustrating the dangerously complex geological mosaic in this area, a seismologist told AFP on Thursday.
German court rules against Google's terms
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A German court has ruled that Google Inc. must change terms of service that could be interpreted to compromise a user's rights, a decision the consumer advocacy group that brought the suit welcomed ...
Shaking the Earth: How Water Helps Tectonic Plates Slide in New Zealand
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New Zealand is the site of one of the world’s youngest subduction zones, where the Pacific Plate of Earth’s crust dives beneath the Australian Plate. Now, a University of Utah study shows ...
Jade sheds light on Guatemala's geologic history
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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The shifting of tectonic plates in Central America has been poorly understood -- until now. New research on jade found along fault lines in Guatemala is helping geologists piece the puzzle of the past 130 million years.
Town on SF Bay wants to photograph every car
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Visitors should be prepared to have their pictures taken as they enter and leave this picturesque town of million-dollar views and homes along the San Francisco Bay.
New map hints at Venus's wet, volcanic past (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, ...
Asteroid Attack 4 Billion Years Ago May Have Accelerated Life on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago by asteroids as large as Kansas would not have had the firepower to extinguish potential early life on the planet and may even have given ...
Solomon Islands earthquake sheds light on enhanced tsunami risk
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Apr 09, 2009 |
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The 2007 Solomon Island earthquake may point to previously unknown increased earthquake and tsunami risks because of the unusual tectonic plate geography and the sudden change in direction of the earthquake, ...
Simulations, ancient magnetism suggest mantle plumes may bend deep beneath Earth's crust
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once though ...
One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...
New Madrid fault system may be shutting down
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Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows.
Seniors find success working with personal trainer
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Craving a little attention? Need to spruce up that new year's resolution? Before you freshen up your excuses, check out Don and Dorothy Ritz. Then consider getting a personal trainer.
