Posts Tagged ‘earth science’
Earth & Environment - Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:38 - 0 Comments
Glimpse of prehistoric Earth in Arctic rock
McGILL (CAN)—Geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks collected on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic suggests that a region of mantle beneath the Earth’s surface has largely escaped billions of years of melting and geological churning. Continue…
- Humans flip Texas river’s native carbon cycle
- Tree-ring dating rewrites home’s history
- Forget the forest. Prehumans lived in savannas
- Buried shells are no ecological treasure
- Greenland melt spreads to both coasts
- Predicting Earth’s tectonic dance
- Upside-down answer for deep Earth mystery
- Shaking up estimates about ‘the big one’
- On video: Seafloor volcano spews magma
- Little global warming goes a long way
- Why strong faults keep slip, slidin’ away
- Warming planet threatens desert plants
- Watching glaciers slide—in a freezer
- North Carolina sea level rises at faster pace
- Seafloor dynamics at work splitting continent
- First detailed record of tsunami erosion
- Immersive exhibit redefines bird’s-eye view
- Twig by twig, climbing Earth’s ‘Tree of Life’
- Arctic sea ice’s downward trend continues





