Geology
- Concepción Moved 10ft West By Chile Earthquake
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Preliminary measurements indicate that the massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the west coast of Chile in February moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, and shifted other parts of South America as far apart as the Falkl ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:23pm
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Blog Post - Anonymous - Mar 14 2010 - 1:43am
- Geologists Predict Another Earthquake Near Chile
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The high-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Central Chile last month closed one of the two remaining seismic gaps at the South American plate boundary. After the quake in Concepción, the remaining gap in the north of Chile now holds potential for a ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2010 - 1:10pm
- A Critique Of A Multiply-Published Article On Ice Sheet Collapse
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A Critique Of A Multiply-Published Article On Ice Sheet Collapse An article in AIG News, the Australian Institute of Geoscientists Quarterly Newsletter No. 97 August 2009, purports to state that collapse of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is imposs ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 18 2010 - 8:31pm
- NASA IceBridge Mission Prepares For Study Of Arctic Glaciers
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NASA IceBridge Mission Prepares for Study of Arctic Glaciers In a world where the blogosphere is filled with politically motivated versions of what is 'really' happening to the cryosphere it is good to know that real scientists are taking real r ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 18 2010 - 11:33pm
- Geologists Set Sail For Chile Earthquake Site
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Scientists at the University of California, San Diego are undertaking an expedition to explore the rupture site of the 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake. The team hopes to capitalize on a unique opportunity to capture fresh data from the event by studying c ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2010 - 12:54pm
- Rock Scissors Paper Custard
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Rock Scissors Paper Custard Ok, forget the scissors and paper- this article is about rocks and custard. The Sliding Rocks Of Racetrack Playa Racetrack Playa is a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park. It is famous for its sliding rocks. Theories th ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 19 2010 - 4:57pm
- Ice Loss Spreading Up Greenland's Northwest Coast
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Ice loss in Greenland, which has been increasing during the past decade over its southern region, is now moving up its northwest coast, according to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters. A comparison of data from NASA's GRACE Satellite an ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2010 - 4:51pm
- MORVEL: A Precise Model Of Tectonic-Plate Movements
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Geophysicists have developed a new model of the Earth, 20 years in the making, that offers a precise description of the relative movements of 25 interlocking tectonic plates that account for 97 percent of the Earth's surface. Dubbed MORVEL for "m ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2010 - 6:14pm
- Earth Has Entered The "Anthropocene Epoch," Geologists Say
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A team of geologists say that, in just two centuries, stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels have wrought such vast and unprecedented changes to our world that humans actually might be ushering in a new geologica ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2010 - 10:44am
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