News articles tagged with 'geologist'
Novel ocean-crust mechanism could affect world's carbon budget
— 16 Nov 2010 12:27 | EnvironmentThe Earth is constantly manufacturing new crust, spewing molten magma up along undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates. The process is critical to the planet's metabolism,…
Can Hungary's red sludge be made less toxic with carbon?
— 14 Oct 2010 10:57 | EnvironmentThe red, metal-laden sludge that escaped a containment pond in Hungary last week could be made less toxic with the help of carbon sequestration, says an Indiana University Bloomington…
Tsunami risk higher in Los Angeles, other major cities
— 11 Oct 2010 10:48 | Geology and palaeontologyGeologists studying the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake say the risk of destructive tsunamis is higher than expected in places such as Kingston, Istanbul, and Los Angeles…
Frogs evolution tracks rise of Himalayas and rearrangement of Southeast Asia
— 6 Aug 2010 08:05 | BiologyThe evolution of a group of muscled frogs scattered throughout Asia is telling geologists about the sequence of events that led to the rise of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau…
Scientists' work improves odds of finding diamonds
— 15 Jul 2010 14:45 | Geology and palaeontologyWhile prospectors and geologists have been successful in finding diamonds through diligent searching, one University of Houston professor and his team's work could help improve the…
Brown team finds widespread glacial meltwater valleys on Mars
— 25 Jun 2010 12:26 | AstronomyPlanetary scientists have uncovered telltale signs of water on Mars - frozen and liquid - in the earliest period of the Red Planet's history. A new claim, made public this month, is…
Carbon dioxide is the missing link to past global climate changes
— 18 Jun 2010 12:08 | EnvironmentIncreasingly, the Earth's climate appears to be more connected than anyone would have imagined. El Nino, the weather pattern that originates in a patch of the equatorial Pacific, can…
Global glaciation snowballed into giant change in carbon cycle
— 1 May 2010 10:36 | Geology and palaeontologyFor insight into what can happen when the Earth's carbon cycle is altered - a cause and consequence of climate change - scientists can look to an event that occurred some 720 million…
Not so fast! Andes rise was gradual, not abrupt
— 2 Apr 2010 12:15 | Geology and palaeontologyTrailing like a serpent's spine along the western coast of South America, the Andes are the world's longest continental mountain range and the highest range outside Asia, with an average…
Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all
— 26 Nov 2009 07:06 | Geology and palaeontologyImagine the Earth's crust as the planet's skin: Some areas are old and wrinkled while others have a fresher, more youthful sheen, as if they had been regularly lathered with lotion…