- Modern Mussel Shells Much Thinner Than 50 Years Ago
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... species of algae have difficulty producing their calcium carbonate shells and skeletons in such an environment, and can provide an early ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2016 - 8:12pm - 0 attachments
- Hellisheidi Power Plant Turns Carbon Emissions To Stone
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... with experimental drill core loaded with solidified carbonate produced by the new process. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty ... injected area show the rock is heavily laced with whitish carbonate veins, apparently produced by the process. With initial signs of ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2016 - 6:42am - 0 attachments
- Retreat Of The Ice Followed By Millennia Of Methane Release
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... A new and groundbreaking method of dating carbonate rocks has been used to come to this conclusion. The seepage of ... for formation of a special type of rock called authigenic carbonate crust. This could than be dated by scientists by a using a ...
Article - News Staff - May 16 2016 - 7:44am - 0 attachments
- How Nature Is Eroding Coral Reefs
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... adept at boring into rock types that consist of calcium carbonate, such as limestone and marble used to make sculptures, buildings and ... photosynthesis (red) while infesting a piece of calcium carbonate (gray). Both boring and non-boring bacterial filaments are visible: ...
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- Reef System With 10,000 Km2 Found At The Amazon River Mouth
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... state (Northeast Region of Brazil), forming an unique carbonate system that pass in front of Para and Amapa states (North of Brazil), ... sector); the characteristics of rhodolith beds and carbonate structure (larger rhodolith beds in the Northern sector, rhodoliths ...
Article - News Staff - May 4 2016 - 10:36am - 0 attachments
- Hear No Evil: Farmed Fish Found To Be Hard Of Hearing
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... deformity occurs when the typical structure of calcium carbonate in the fish earbone is replaced with a different crystal form. The ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2016 - 10:24am - 0 attachments
- Ice Age Antarctic Ocean Gives Clue To 'missing' Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
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... Foraminifera have an external shell made of calcium carbonate, which traps signatures of their environment as they grow--including ... floor. Lu has spent years measuring iodine in calcium carbonate as a proxy for tracking oceanic oxygen levels. "These carbonates ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2016 - 12:26pm - 0 attachments
- Protecting Coral Reefs With Bubbles
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... of marine organisms, but especially those that use calcium carbonate to assemble their skeletons and shells, such as coral, mussels, and ... structure of the ecosystems is built upon the calcium carbonate skeletal remains of dead coral," said lead author David Koweek, a ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2016 - 10:13am - 0 attachments
- How Rocks Shaped The Civil War
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... Figure 5 from the Hippensteel article, "Carbonate rocks and American Civil War infantry tactics." Union reenactors ... University of North Carolina at Charlotte describes how carbonate rocks produced rolling terrain that limited the range and ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2016 - 9:58pm - 0 attachments
- Outsourcing Crystal Growth...to Space
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... insoluble minerals. For example, it could measure calcium carbonate crystals, where margins of error could become massive across a ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2016 - 3:42pm - 0 attachments
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