News tagged with seabed
Study predicts Australian seabed response to climate change
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Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed.
New Sumatra quake takes seismologists by surprise
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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.
Japan to use deep-sea probes to search for minerals
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday.
Geoscientists back from expedition to Labrador Sea
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Jul 22, 2009 |
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Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have researched the geology of the seabed in the Labrador Sea on board of the research vessel Maria S. Merian. They have studied the so-called Eirik Drift at the ...
Scientists finding sink holes in Great Lakes
May 04, 2009 |
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Scientists studying submerged sinkholes in the Great Lakes off the coast of northern Michigan have stumbled onto something they never expected to find: life forms akin to those found in some of Earth's most extreme environments.
Iceberg Scour Affects Biodiversity
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is ...
