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Small White Stalagmites Lining Caves in Southwestern Illinois

Stalagmites may predict next Big One along the New Madrid Seismic Zone

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Small white stalagmites lining caves in the Midwest may help scientists chronicle the history of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) – and even predict when the next big earthquake may strike, say researchers ...





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Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Will the Netherlands that is dominated by water succumb to the 'Inconvenient Truth' predicted by Al Gore? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen analysed stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru. He used ...


Cave study links climate change to California droughts

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor ...


Abrupt global warming could shift monsoon patterns, hurt agriculture

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created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2

At times in the distant past, an abrupt change in climate has been associated with a shift of seasonal monsoons to the south, a new study concludes, causing more rain to fall over the oceans than in the Earth's tropical regions, ...


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Cave records provide clues to climate change

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created Sep 26, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 0

When Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Kim Cobb and graduate student Jud Partin wanted to understand the mechanisms that drove the abrupt climate change events that occurred thousands of years ago, they didn't ...


Lebanon cave takes on Amazon for spot in new seven wonders

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created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Lebanon's Jeita Grotto on Tuesday was selected as one of 28 finalists for the seven natural wonders of the world, facing the Amazon, Mount Vesuvius and others for a spot on the prestigious list.


Stalagmites in Northeast Brazilian Caves Confirm 9,000-Year Model of Diminishing Rainfall

Stalagmites in Northeast Brazilian Caves Confirm 9,000-Year Model of Diminishing Rainfall

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, researchers studying climate history in Brazil’s dry Nordeste region expected it to have wet and dry periods similar to the rest of South America. But over the past 9,000 years, ...


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New climate record shows century-long droughts in eastern North America

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created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (19) | comments 6

A stalagmite in a West Virginia cave has yielded the most detailed geological record to date on climate cycles in eastern North America over the past 7,000 years. The new study confirms that during periods ...


Researchers Study Cave's 'Breathing' for Better Climate Clues

Researchers Study Cave's 'Breathing' for Better Climate Clues

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arkansas researcher studying the way caves "breathe" is providing new insights into the process by which scientists study paleoclimates.


Atlantic dynamo turned up the heat over Medieval Europe

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the April 3rd edition of Science a collaborative group of scientists from Switzerland, California and the UK report that medieval climate over Europe was heated by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). ...


An eagle of cosmic proportions

An Eagle of Cosmic Proportions

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created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today ESO has released a new and stunning image of the sky around the Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant star clusters carve out monster columns of dust and gas.



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