The front page of the internet. Ldcme.gif (GIF Image, 512x512 pixels) Geologists Accidentally Opened the "Door to Hell" Photos: John H.
Bradley In the darkness of night, flames dance and lick the air, casting an ominous glow that can be seen from miles around in the desert of Turkmenistan. The source of all this light and heat is a massive crater, in which blazes an unceasing inferno, dubbed by locals the "Door to Hell. " For decades, the fires within the pit have been burning without end, fed by a seemingly unlimited pocket of natural gas. The "Door to Hell" might easily be placed among the world's most incredible natural wonder--that is, if it wasn't man-made. Not so surprisingly for a legendary-seeming wonder, some of the details regarding the "Door to Hell," otherwise known as the Darvaza Gas Crater, have passed into legend--namely the date of its creation.
Volcanic Landforms, Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics. Plate Tectonics May Grind To A Halt, Then Start Again. Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair.
Scientists have assumed that the shifting of crustal plates has been slow but continuous over most of the Earth's history, but a new study from researchers at the Carnegie Institution suggests that plate tectonics may have ground to a halt at least once in our planet's history--and may do so again. A key aspect of plate tectonic theory is that on geologic time scales ocean basins are transient features, opening and closing as plates shift. Basins are consumed by a process called subduction, where oceanic plates descend into the Earth's mantle. Subduction zones are the sites of oceanic trenches, high earthquake activity, and most of the world's major volcanoes. This would effectively stop plate tectonics unless new subduction zones start up, but subduction initiation is poorly understood.
The simple image sharer. BBC Nature - 'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic. 23 November 2011Last updated at 10:01 By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature As brine from the sea ice sinks, a 'brinicle' forms threatening life on the sea floor with a frosty fate.
A bizarre underwater "icicle of death" has been filmed by a BBC crew. With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking. The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it. Where the so-called "brinicle" met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish. The unusual phenomenon was filmed for the first time by cameramen Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson for the BBC One series Frozen Planet.
Creeping ice. Surface Ocean Currents. The water of the ocean surface moves in a regular pattern called surface ocean currents. the currents are named. In this map, warm currents are shown in red and cold currents are shown in blue. Click on image for full size Windows to the Universe The water at the ocean surface is moved primarily by winds that blow in certain patterns because of the Earth’s spin and the Coriolis Effect. Winds are able to move the top 400 meters of the ocean creating surface ocean currents.
Surface ocean currents form large circular patterns called gyres. El Niño and La Niña. Science Models. 100930_JTSg_6838_h.jpg. Ocean Currents and Climate. Ocean Currents and Climate There are two type of Ocean Currents: 1.
Surface Currents--Surface Circulation These waters make up about 10% of all the water in the ocean. These waters are the upper 400 meters of the ocean. 2. These waters make up the other 90% of the ocean These waters move around the ocean basins by density driven forces and gravity. The density difference is a function of different temperatures and salinity These deep waters sink into the deep ocean basins at high latitudes where the temperatures are cold enough to cause the density to increase. Ocean Currents are influenced by two types of forces. Thousands in D.C. protest pipeline. Demonstrators march with a replica of a pipeline during a protest to demand a stop to the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline outside the White House on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, in Washington.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Last Updated 5:04 p.m. ET WASHINGTON - Thousands of protesters, including a Nobel laureate and a movie star, gathered near the White House on Sunday in opposition to TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Activity: Wind. Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real. WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong.
In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly. The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data. He was spurred to action because of "Climategate," a British scandal involving hacked emails of scientists. Yet he found that the land is 1.6 degrees warmer than in the 1950s. Brian-Emfinger1.jpg (JPEG Image, 900x601 pixels) - Scaled (99. Rapidly Inflating Volcano Creates Growing Mystery. Should anyone ever decide to make a show called "CSI: Geology," a group of scientists studying a mysterious and rapidly inflating South American volcano have got the perfect storyline.
Researchers from several universities are essentially working as geological detectives, using a suite of tools to piece together the restive peak's past in order to understand what it is doing now, and better diagnose what may lie ahead. It's a mystery they've yet to solve. Japan marks 6 months since earthquake, tsunami. TOKYO (AP) -- Last Sunday was the six-month anniversary of the day the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan's northeast coast.
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s61hw.jpg (JPEG Image, 651x2161 pixels) - Scaled (27. Neutron Stars. Underneath a glacier time lapse. Cost of bottled water. Ewkir.jpg (JPEG Image, 333x473 pixels) Icr5F.jpg (JPEG Image, 934x5949 pixels) - Scaled (10. Cubeearthbig.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x566 pixels) All sizes. Giant Asteroid Vesta Has Mountain Taller Than Anything on Earth. A NASA spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Vesta is revealing new details about the huge space rock's surface, including a massive mountain that rises taller than Mt.
Everest on Earth. NASA's Dawn probe has been circling Vesta since mid-July, when it arrived in the asteroid belt that orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter. So far, Dawn has beamed back surprising views of Vesta that revealed an enormous mountain in the asteroid's southern hemisphere and show that its crater surface is incredibly diverse place. [Latest Photos of Asteroid Vesta] "We are learning many amazing things about Vesta, which we call the smallest terrestrial planet," Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission, said in a statement.
Vesta's giant southern mountain is nearly as tall as Olympus Mons, the largest mountain (and volcano) in the solar system, which soars about 15 miles (24 kilometers) above the surface. Dawn at Vesta Calculating ages on Vesta. The World's Most Beautiful Glaciers. Global warming threatens glaciers. In the news time from time slips that one or another icy river is endangered.
So the best way is to hurry in order to make sure that the photos do not lie, and the ice really is all shades of blue and pink colors, and not white, as it appears to those who saw it only in the form of icicles, hanging from the roofs of houses. Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina Photo In the national park of Lago Argentino, there are 13 entire glaciers, but the most beautiful of them is recognized as Perito Moreno.
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Thanks to biotech firms, now even our storms are Roundup-ready. RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The scientific evidence piling up against Roundup, the best-selling weed killer for home and farm use, is starting to sound a bit sci-fi. The latest damaging evidence against this potent herbicide, once widely believed to be safe, comes from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which is now detecting glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, in streams, the air, and even rain.
While the concentrations detected in rain and air are thousands of times less than what farmers dump onto field crops, emerging scientific evidence about what these chronic low-level exposures do to our bodies is cause for major concern, particularly among unborn babies and young children. These tiny amounts we're breathing in daily could be altering our hormones and wreaking all sorts of havoc on our bodies, but the human health effects may not show up for years or decades.
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A 3D image of the 3.4 billion-year-old microfossil found in Western Australia. Picture: AFP / David Wacey and Derek Gertsmann. Source: AFP The bacteria found was living without oxygen, making it the oldest on earth. Picture: Nature Geoscience / AFP / David Wacey Source: AFP Strelley Pool in Pilbara region of Western Australia where the fossils were found. SCIENTISTS in Western Australia have uncovered fossils which they say are the oldest evidence of life on Earth. A team of researchers from the University of WA and Britain's Oxford University say they have proof that the microscopic fossils, found at Strelley Pool near Port Hedland, are more than 3.4 billion years old. The sulphur-based bacteria was found well preserved between quartz sand grains in prehistoric sedimentary rocks, Oxford University's Professor Martin Brasier said.
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