Geology News

Posted October 15, 1999:

• 70 Percent Chance That Large Earthquake Will Strike San Francisco By 2030

Posted September 23, 1999:

• Brentwood, Missouri, High School To Monitor New Satellite

Posted September 21, 1999:

• Tracks In Iron Provide An Insightful Map Of Microbial World
• Scientists Gather In Oregon To Decide Next Steps Of Mid-Ocean Ridge Exploration

Posted September 9, 1999:

• New Landsat 7 Images Of The Earth Now Available

Posted September 8, 1999:

• Satellite Fire Alarms Keep Watch On Raging California Fires

Posted September 7, 1999:

• Geologists Study How Beachfront Property Turned Mountainous

Posted August 19, 1999:

• MIT Researchers Monitoring Earthquakes In Turkey Say Istanbul Could Be Next Target

Posted August 16, 1999:

• Researchers Find New Pathway To Making Methane

Posted August 11, 1999:

• Earthquake Research Finds New Way To Measure Slippage Deep Underground

Posted August 6, 1999:

• Diamonds Made Of "Stardust," UMass Geoscientist Suggests

Posted August 4, 1999:

• Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake May Harbor Unknown Life

Posted August 2, 1999:

• New Screening Method Identifies Areas Susceptible To Selenium Contamination In Western United States

Posted July 29, 1999:

• Earthquake Analysis Reveals Changes In Fault Zones With Depth Below Surface, Shedding New Light On The Nature Of Destructive Earthquakes

Posted July 23, 1999:

• New UNC-CH Study Explains Variations In Onset Of Ice Ages

Posted July 20, 1999:

• Drilling Project Opens The Book On "LA Underground"

Posted June 21, 1999:

• Finding New Oil In Old Ground

Posted June 18, 1999:

• Alaska's Columbia Glacier Traveling At Record Pace
• Colorado Students, Faculty To Control NASA El Nino Watching Satellite

Posted June 8, 1999:

• NASA's New Ocean-Observing Satellite Set To Chase The Wind

Posted June 3, 1999:

• Space Blobs Create Super-Speedy, Backward Auroras

Posted May 24, 1999:

• Marine Life In South Pacific Region Found To Be Impervious To Oceans' Highest Arsenic Levels

Posted May 11, 1999:

• NASA, USDA Will Bring Space Technology Down To Earth

Posted May 4, 1999:

• Cloudsat To Revolutionize Study Of Clouds And Climate
• State-Of-The-Art Tools Used To Identify Water-Bearing Bedrock Aquifers

Posted May 3, 1999:

• Seismic Profiling Reveals Ancient River Valley And Prehistoric Faulting Beneath Portland, Ore.

Posted April 23, 1999:

• Midwest's Earthquake Hazard Lower Than Thought, Satellite Data Show

Posted April 19, 1999:

• Landsat 7 Spacecraft Joins NASA's Earth Science Team

Posted April 6, 1999:

• New Satellite Will Monitor Earth's Health And Look For Signs Of Climate Change

Posted April 5, 1999:

• Unique U.S. Seisometer Array Shows Core-Mantle Boundary

Posted March 25, 1999:

• Modeling Ocean Floor Spreading In A Tub Of Wax, Cornell Researcher Sees Eons Pass In Minutes

Posted March 19, 1999:

• Geophysicists Propose A New Model Of Earth's Mantle

Posted March 18, 1999:

• Interactive Web Site From Cornell Maps Geology Worldwide For Scientists And Educators

Posted March 17, 1999:

• Lunar Data Support Idea That Collision Split Earth, Moon

Posted March 15, 1999:

• Drilling Project To Plumb Million Years Of Volcanic Island History

Posted March 11, 1999:

• Deserts Still Damaged 30 Years After Minimal Disturbance

Posted March 10, 1999:

• Duke Expedition Will Visit Dark Underwater Chasm To Study How Ocean Crust Forms

Posted March 9, 1999:

• Geologists Find Motion Across Disappearing Plate Boundary

Posted February 24, 1999:

• Satellite Laser To Take The Pulse Of West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Posted February 19, 1999:

• Study Of Soufriere Hills Volcano Provides Clues To Explosive Eruptions & Eruption Predictions

Posted February 18, 1999:

• Ancient Volcanic Cataclysms Discovered In The Indian Ocean

Posted February 16, 1999:

• "Hell On Earth" And CSIRO's Going There

Posted January 26, 1999:

• 150 Million-Year-Old Sunken Slab Beneath Siberia

Posted January 20, 1999:

• Scientists Rule Out One Threat Of Antarctic Collapse

Posted January 13, 1999:

• New Method Of Dating Past Earthquakes, Assessing Future Ones Discovered

Posted December 22, 1998:

• Space Weather Satellite Makes First Measurements of Solar Storm Smacking Earth's Atmosphere

Posted December 14, 1998:

• Scientists Study 100-Million-Year-Old Volcanism In The Indian Ocean

Posted December 11, 1998:

• Earthquake Provides Proof That Earth's Innermost Core Is Solid

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