News tagged with sediment samples
'Moderately Large' Potential for Spring, Summer Red Tide Outbreak in Gulf of Maine
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The potential for an outbreak of the phenomenon called "red tide" is expected to be moderately large this spring and summer, according to researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...
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Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old
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Jul 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Liverpool have discovered that the Amazon river, and its transcontinental drainage, is around 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago.
Digging deeper below Antarctica's Lake Vida
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Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Antarctica's Lake Vida, a geologic curiosity that is essentially an ice bottle of brine, is home to some of the oldest and coldest living organisms on Earth. Perpetually covered by more than 60 feet of ice, ...
Methane-eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to 'breathe'
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers ...
Ultra-fine coatings on sediment grains influence nitrate and sulfate storage in soil
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Tiny sediment grains are covered with a very fine-grained, complex mixture of minerals in an open fabric that results in a large surface area in contact with water between the grains. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey ...
EPA: Hurricane sediment might be dangerous
Sep 22, 2005 |
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Frequent contact with hurricane-produced flooding sediment should be avoided, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials in Washington warned Thursday.
Pointing a finger at the source of fecal bacteria
May 23, 2007 |
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Excessive levels of fecal bacteria were to blame for almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams deemed impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. In order to develop effective pollution-control strategies, ...
International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic
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Nov 20, 2009 |
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Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition ...
Scientists obtain core samples from subsea fault system off Japan
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Feb 05, 2008 |
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The third expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) completed its mission off the Kii Peninsula today. The expedition science party, 26 scientists representing ...
Plants could override climate change effects on wildfires
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The increase in warmer and drier climates predicted to occur under climate change scenarios has led many scientists to also predict a global increase in the number of wildfires. But a new ...
The Amazon River is 11 million years old
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Jul 07, 2009 |
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The Amazon River originated as a transcontinental river around 11 million years ago and took its present shape approximately 2.4 million years ago. These are the most significant results of a study on two ...
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