What happens under the Yellowstone Volcano
Study provides information about the processes deep inside the EarthCredit: Steinberger et al. The Yellowstone National Park in the USA ...
Tag: Geophysics/Gravity
Mathematicians find gold in data
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Russian mathematicians and geophysicists have made a standard technique for ore prospecting several times more effective. ...
Rice irrigation worsened landslides in deadliest earthquake of 2018 finds NTU study
Credit: Gilles Brocard/University of Sydney Irrigation significantly exacerbated the earthquake-triggered landslides in Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in ...
Early warning signals heralded fatal collapse of Krakatau volcano
GFZ Potsdam researchers reconstruct the flank collapse event that triggered a tsunami which killed 430 people in December 2018 - ...
Untapped resource, or greenhouse gas threat, found below rifting axis off Okinawa coast
Kyushu University researchers' analysis of seismic data reveals for the first time a large reservoir of methane or carbon dioxide ...
Plasma flow near sun’s surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SORCE For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at a time on ...
Geophysicists challenge conventional view of the cause of porosity in weathered rock
Pores, or empty spaces, in rock are critically important for sustaining life on EarthCredit: R. Callahan (Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 18, ...
Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic
Second-lowest September minimum since observations beganCredit: Graphic: meereisportal.de The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is nearing its annual minimum at ...
Many Dallas-Fort Worth area faults have the potential to host earthquakes, new study finds
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin/Bureau of Economic Geology A study led by The University of Texas at Austin ...
Solving the salt problem for seismic imaging
Credit: © 2019 Mahesh Kalita The efficient extraction of oil and gas from within the Earth's crust requires accurate images ...
Diamond shines its light on Moon Rocks from Apollo Missions, Martian meteorites and Vesta
Nearly 50 years after our first steps on the Moon, samples from the Apollo missions, Mars and Vesta still have ...
Stronger earthquakes can be induced by wastewater injected deep underground
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech scientists have found that in regions where oilfield wastewater disposal is widespread -- and where ...
New NSF grant awarded to study Earth’s ‘flat slabs’
Credit: Lara Wagner, Carnegie Institution for Science A $2.7 million multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional NSF-Frontiers of Earth Science grant has been awarded ...
Alternating currents cause Jupiter’s aurora
An international team of researchers has succeeded in measuring the current system responsible for Jupiter's aurora. Using data transmitted to ...
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