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Understanding How Continents Grow

September 10th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

“The North American continent is not one thick, rigid slab, but a layer cake of ancient, 3 billion-year-old rock on top of much newer material probably less than 1 billion years old, according to a new study by seismologists at the University of California, Berkeley.” This information is a valuable clue to understanding how continents

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Colorado Wildfires

September 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

Wildfires continue to be a problem for thousands of people in Colorado.

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Using Giant Rats to Clear Minefields in Mozambique

September 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

Giant rats are being trained to located land mines. In 2008 and 2009 the rats cleared over a million square meters of minefield and found about 400 mines.

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Zoom In On An Asteroid Impact Crater

September 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

A Google Map that allows you to zoom in on fifty of Earth’s most obvious impact sites with satellite images and maps. We have selected the ones that are easiest for the inexperienced viewer to recognize.

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Melting of Oregon’s Largest Glacier

September 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

“An Oregon State University research program has returned to Collier Glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the glacier has decreased more than 20 percent from its size in the late 1980s. ” Quoted from the Oregon State University press release.

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Impressive Debris Flow – Hunza, Pakistan

September 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

This is one of the most impressive debris flows that you will ever see. About one minute into the video you will see people on the opposite side of the stream start to run when they see what is coming at them!

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Hypoxia in US Coastal Waters

September 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

“The occurrence of hypoxia, or low dissolved oxygen, is increasing in coastal waters worldwide and represents a significant threat to the health and economy of our Nation’s coasts and Great Lakes.” Quoted from the Scientific Assessment of Hypoxia in U.S. Coastal Waters report.

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Spectacular Phytoplankton Bloom in the Barents Sea

September 7th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

“The ocean’s canvas swirls with turquoise, teal, navy, and green painted by a massive phytoplankton bloom made up of millions of tiny, light-reflecting organisms growing in the sunlit surface waters of the Barents Sea.” Quoted from the NASA image release.

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Extending the Appalachian Trail to Europe and Africa

September 7th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

The Appalachian Trail is an extremely popular hiking route in the United States and the International Appalachian Trail has been popular in Canada. Now, there are hopes of extending the trail across sites in Europe and Africa that have a plate tectonics connection

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Rapid Magnetic Reversal

September 7th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Geology.com

Reversals of Earth’s magnetic field occur about once every 200,000 years and require a few thousand years to slowly change. A Reuters article describes one reversal that occurred very fast.

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