Offshore submarine freshwater discovery raises hopes for islands worldwide
Credit: University of Hawai'i Twice as much freshwater is stored offshore of Hawai'i Island than was previously thought, according to ...
Tag: Geophysics/Gravity
New tool predicts geological movement and the flow of groundwater in old coalfields
Credit: University of Nottingham A remote monitoring tool to help authorities manage public safety and environmental issues in recently abandoned ...
Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China
Study offers clues about the fate of tectonic plates that sink deep in Earth's mantleCredit: Courtesy of Rice University HOUSTON ...
East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces
Credit: Rina Andrianasolo The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East ...
Researchers model source of eruption on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Credit: Image credit: Justice Blaine Wainwright On Jupiter's icy moon Europa, powerful eruptions may spew into space, raising questions among ...
Scientists have discovered an ancient lake bed deep beneath the Greenland ice
Inaccessible for now, unique site may hold secrets of pastCredit: Kirsty Tinto/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Scientists have detected what they say ...
The craters on Earth
Credit: Illustration: Gottwald, Kenkmann, Reimold: Terrestrial Impact Structures, The TanDEM-X Atlas, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann, geologist ...
Specially-adapted drones gather data from unexplored volcanoes to better forecast eruptions
New drone technology improves ability to forecast volcanic eruptionsCredit: Matthew Wordell Specially-adapted drones developed by an international team have been ...
New fault zone measurements could help us to understand subduction earthquake
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba conducted detailed measurements of rocks formed by seismic slips in an exposed subduction zone ...
Using a volcano’s eruption ‘memory’ to forecast dangerous follow-on explosions
Credit: Pixabay Stromboli, the 'lighthouse of the Mediterranean', is known for its low-energy but persistent explosive eruptions, behaviour that is ...
AI detects hidden earthquakes
New technology from Stanford scientists finds long-hidden quakes, and possible clues about how earthquakes evolveCredit: Mousavi et al., 2020 Nature ...
Simple actions can help people survive landslides
Credit: U.S. Navy/Wikipedia The March 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington, about 55 miles northeast of Seattle, became the deadliest landslide ...
Researchers provide most detailed and complete record yet of Earth’s last magnetic reversal
Credit: NIPR/AIST/Ibaraki University Earth's magnetic fields typically switch every 200 to 300 millennia. Yet, the planet has remained steady for ...
TU Graz researchers discover new sediment archive for historical climate research
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz How has the climate changed in the course of the earth's history? Which climatic ...
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