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Earthquakes reveal deep secrets beneath East Asia
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
A new work based on 3-D supercomputer simulations of earthquake data has found hidden rock structures deep under East Asia. Researchers from China, Canada, and ...
Origins and future of Lake Eyre and the Murray-Darling Basin
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
Geoscientists have, for the first time, discovered the origins of Australia's two largest basins: Lake Eyre and the Murray-Darling Basin. The research also impl...
Large landslides lie low: Himalaya-Karakoram ranges
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
Large landslides are an important process of erosion in the Himalaya-Karakoram ranges (HKR). These high-relief landscapes are characterized by steep slopes that...
Second quake part of chain reaction: scientists
May 12, 2015 (AFP)
The 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on Tuesday, 17 days after a lethal 7.8 temblor, is part of a chain reaction in a notorious seismic hotspot, scien...
Supercycles in subduction zones
May 11, 2015 (SPX)
On 11 March 2011, a massive release of stress between two overlapping tectonic plates occurred beneath the ocean floor off the coast of Japan, triggering a gian...
Rupture along the Himalayan Front
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
In their article for Lithosphere on 12 March, authors Kristin Morell and colleagues write, "The ?700-km-long 'central seismic gap' is the most prominent segment...
Erosion, landslides and monsoon across the Himalayas
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
In these days, it was again tragically demonstrated that the Himalayas are one of the most active geodynamic regions of the world. Landslides belong to the most...
Tidal tugs on Teflon faults drive slow-slipping earthquakes
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
Unknown to most people, the Pacific Northwest experiences a magnitude-6.6 earthquake about once a year. The reason nobody notices is that the movement happens s...
Ascent or no ascent
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
Gigantic volumes of hot material rising from the deep earth's mantle to the base of the lithosphere have shaped the face of our planet. Provided they have a suf...
Map shows content and origins of US geologic basement
Apr 28, 2015 (SPX)
A map showing the many different pieces of Earth's crust that comprise the nation's geologic basement is now available from the U.S. Geological Survey. This is ...
Could Earth host another supercontinent?
Apr 28, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers in Australia, Canada and the United States are looking into the possibility of a supercontinent once again amalgamating amid the world's oceans. Som...
The creation of Shangri-La
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
Located in Tibet and the Chinese province of Yunnan, the southeast Tibetan plateau is an extraordinary mountainous region. The high peaks are rugged and steep, ...
Quake-prone Nepal: key questions and answers
Apr 26, 2015 (AFP)
Located on a major faultline dividing the Indian and Eurasian plates, quake-prone Nepal is set to suffer more aftershocks in the coming months, some of which mi...
Magma intrusion is likely source of Columbia-Ecuador border quake swarms
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
The "seismic crisis" around the region of the Chiles and Cerro Negro de Mayasquer volcanoes near the Columbia-Ecuador border is likely caused by intruding magma...
Fragment of continental crust found under south east Iceland
Apr 16, 2015 (SPX)
An international team, including researchers at the University of Liverpool, have shown that south east Iceland is underlain by continental crust. The team foun...
Ferromanganese crusts record past climates
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
In the past decades ferromanganese crusts have been the focus of interest due to their resource potential of valuable metals such as cobalt, nickel or rare eart...
Link between Calaveras, Hayward faults means potentially larger quakes
Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)
University of California, Berkeley seismologists have proven that the Hayward Fault is essentially a branch of the Calaveras Fault that runs east of San Jose, w...
Scientists discover elusive secret of how continents formed
Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team, led by a Virginia Tech geoscientist, has revealed information about how continents were generated on Earth more than 2.5 billion...
Ascension of marine diatoms linked to continental weathering
Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers, including Rensselaer professor Morgan Schaller, has used mathematical modeling to show that continental erosion over the last 40 million ...
A stiff new layer in Earth's mantle
Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)
By crushing minerals between diamonds, a University of Utah study suggests the existence of an unknown layer inside Earth: part of the lower mantle where the ro...
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