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Rocks that tell our industrial history
Researchers have published a study in which they analyze beachrocks, cemented sand formations that have industrial waste, produced as a result of metallurgical activities, trapped inside them. These strange rocks bear witness to the impact of industrial development and its … Continue reading
Rocks that tell our industrial history
Researchers have published a study in which they analyze beachrocks, cemented sand formations that have industrial waste, produced as a result of metallurgical activities, trapped inside them. These strange rocks bear witness to the impact of industrial development and its … Continue reading
Rocks that tell our industrial history
Tunelkobako hondar zementuzko egitura. Arg. Nikole Arrieta/EHU Researchers in the UPV/EHU’s Department of Analytical Chemistry have published a study in which they analyse cemented sand formations that contain industrial waste produced as a result of metallurgical activities. These beachrocks bear … Continue reading
In the creating ears of opossums, echoes of evolutionary historical past
Hidden within the improvement of opossums is one potential model of the evolutionary path that led from the straightforward ears of reptiles to the extra elaborative and delicate buildings of mammals, together with people, animal scientists have found. Paleontology News … Continue reading
Cold plates and scorching melts: New knowledge on historical past of Pacific Ring of Fire
The graphic exhibits the early levels of the Izu-Bonin subduction zone. The lively subduction zone has been shifting eastwards all through its historical past. The drilling passed off the place the method has begun. Credit: Philipp Brandl, GEOMAR About 2000 … Continue reading
Cold plates and scorching melts: New knowledge on historical past of Pacific Ring of Fire
The actions of Earth’s tectonic plates form the face of our planet. The sinking of 1 plate beneath one other causes volcanism and earthquakes. Scientists have been capable of drill and examine the origin of a subduction zone for the … Continue reading
Cold plates and scorching melts: New knowledge on historical past of Pacific Ring of Fire
The actions of Earth’s tectonic plates form the face of our planet. The sinking of 1 plate beneath one other causes volcanism and earthquakes. Scientists have been capable of drill and examine the origin of a subduction zone for the … Continue reading
A supervolcano caused the largest eruption in European history. Now it’s stirring again.
A supervolcano caused the largest eruption in European history. Set to blow? Supervolcano Campi Flegrei reawakening near Naples, could hit 500000 people A 12-km wide cauldron that forms a vast supervolcano on the coast of Italy is showing signs of … Continue reading
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils
I wouldn’t say I know Paul Taylor, but I did once go on a fieldtrip with him, organised by the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London, more years ago than I care to remember. It was to the Coralline Crag … Continue reading
Whitby’s Fossil History and Museum
By the early nineteenth century, geology in England had started to appeal to the public at large. For instance, in 1824 the Reverend William Buckland of Oxford University named the first dinosaur (Megalosaurus bucklandii) and, after this, it seems that … Continue reading