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One-in-three probability Hayward fault will rupture inside 30 years
Within the subsequent 30 years, there’s a one-in-three probability that the Hayward fault will rupture with a 6.7 magnitude or increased earthquake. Such an earthquake will trigger widespread harm to constructions, transportation and utilities, in addition to financial and social … Continue reading
Oxidized iron deep inside Earth’s inside
Scientists digging deep into the Earth’s mantle not too long ago made an surprising discovery. 5 hundred and fifty kilometers beneath the Earth’s floor, they discovered extremely oxidized iron, just like the rust we see on our planet’s floor, inside … Continue reading
Woolly Mammoth might be Back from Extinction Within Two Years, say Harvard scientists
The first image of mammoth bone marrow from which scientists are in search of to extract DNA. Picture: Semyon Grigoriev Scientist main ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard staff might create hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo in two years The woolly mammoth vanished from … Continue reading
Cyclic change within magma reservoirs controls explosivity of volcanic eruptions
Mt. Kelud erupts in Indonesia. A new study published in Geology uses pockets of melts trapped within crystals to understand the conditions occurring beneath volcanoes before explosive eruptions. Volcanologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany … Continue reading
Map of flow within the Earth’s mantle finds the surface moving up and down ‘like a yo-yo’
Researchers have compiled the first global set of observations of the movement of the Earth’s mantle, the 3000-kilometre-thick layer of hot silicate rocks between the crust and the core, and have found that it looks very different to predictions made … Continue reading
Links within two supercontinents
Gondwanaland was one of the two ancient supercontinents produced by the split of the even larger supercontinent Pangaea about 200 million years ago. A University of Wyoming researcher contributed to a paper that has apparently solved an age-old riddle of … Continue reading
First explanations for boundary within Earth’s mantle
Sinking slabs of ocean crust and rising plumes of hot rock in Earth’s mantle are observed to behave differently below one megameter (1,000 kilometers) depth. Two explanations for this behavior were published on Dec. 11, 2015. At left, Rudolph et … Continue reading
Senate reform bill coming within two weeks, says Renzi
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-0c42d06c0780f0c5ff8eae5b6f161eeb1.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Senate reform bill coming within two weeks, says Renzi” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-0c42d06c0780f0c5ff8eae5b6f161eeb1.jpg” (see related stories) (ANSA) – Rome, March 12 – Premier Matteo Renzi said Wednesday that the government will present a bill to reform the … Continue reading
Chemical weapons could arrive in Italy within weeks
IMG class=hide alt=”Chemical weapons could arrive in Italy within weeks” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wpid-da0b1bc877d739efc4ff7b8be81c3c3f.jpg” (See related) (ANSA) – Rome, January 16 – The transfer of chemical weapons from Syria between ships in a port in Italy’s southern region of Calabria could occur in … Continue reading