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| BUGS GO SPELUNKING |
| Some of the world's largest and most spectacular caves were created by the tiniest builders imaginable, according to a team of US geologists. |
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| RUTGERS EXPLORER DESCRIBES SEA FLOOR HOT SPRINGS AS TEEMING WITH VALUABLE MINERALS AND MICROBES |
| With only about 5 percent of the sea floor explored in detail, a picture is emerging of a vast system of natural undersea dynamos, fueled by hot springs, that produce not only valuable mineral deposits, but habitats for unique, heat-loving organisms that can provide materials for products ranging from detergents to pharmaceuticals. |
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| UMASS STUDY RECONSIDERS FORMATION OF ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET |
| Findings detailed in Jan. 16 issue of Nature; greenhouse gases implicated
A study by University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist Robert DeConto posits an alternative theory regarding why Antarctica suddenly became glaciated 34 million years ago. |
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| ROBOTS POWERED BY THE OCEAN ITSELF |
| They call them "gliders," but these move through water instead of air. Two new robotic gliders - autonomous underwater vehicles - powered by changes in their own buoyancy or by different temperature layers in the ocean - will be tested operationally off Southern California this winter. Both gliders were developed with support from the Office of Naval Research. |
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| NOAH'S FLOOD HYPOTHESIS MAY NOT HOLD WATER. RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE PROFESSOR PART OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP REFUTING POPULAR THEORY. |
| In 1996, marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman published a scientifically popular hypothesis, titled Noah's Flood Hypothesis. The researchers presented evidence of a bursting flood about 7,500 years ago in what is now the Black Sea. This, some say, supports the biblical story of Noah and the flood. |
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| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDY TIES THE FREQUENCY OF EARTHQUAKES TO OCEAN TIDES |
| A Columbia University scientist studying an active seafloor volcano in the Pacific Ocean has determined that there is a correlation between the hundreds of micro earthquakes she recorded and the ocean tides. |
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| I'LL HAVE DOUBLE THE ICE WITH THAT |
| The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica is nearly twice as large as previously thought.
A study by a team at the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre and Australian Antarctic Division found that the shelf's grounding zone, where floating ice connects to the land, is further upstream than expected. |
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| NEW REPORT EXPLAINS ICE-AGE MYSTERY |
| University of California researchers have solved a longstanding mystery for scientists trying to understand how Earth's climate can quickly shift between cold and warm modes. |
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| LOST EUROPEAN DELTA PREDICTS THE FUTURE OF MODERN-DAY RIVERS |
| Twelve million years ago the Eridanos flowed through what is now the present Baltic Sea, past modern-day Scandinavia, North Poland and Germany, over Denmark and the Netherlands, and into what is now the North Sea Basin. There it formed a giant delta which covered the entire North Sea. About one million years ago during the ice age, land ice destroyed the river and the North Sea and Baltic Sea were formed. |
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| SMALL, MOUNTAIN RIVERS PLAY BIG ROLE IN OCEAN SEDIMENT |
| Shallow streams that wind through the mountains of New Zealand and Taiwan carry more sediment into the ocean than giant rivers like the Amazon or the Nile, according to Ohio State University geologists. |
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| LAKES ARE GIANT RAIN GUAGES |
| Crater lakes in Victoria are serving as giant rain guages revealing records of past climate. |
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