Image from surfersvillage.com. Surfer catching wave at Mavericks The Mavericks competition was this past Saturday bringing in the best dozen or so big waver surfers…
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Chikyu Vs. The Earthquake
Behemoth is the only word that comes to mind as I discuss, with mouth agape, about the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu. JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency…
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The ends of Permian and Triassic periods were a very bad time for marine invertebrates. Suffering, starvations, watching loved ones die…very hard times indeed. A…
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I took my love, I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills till…
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Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years? Credit & Copyright: C. R. Scotese (U. Texas at Arlington), PALEOMAP In 250 million years from now, my…
View More One Less Variable I Have To Keep Track OfIs there springtime for the Abyss?
Think of the changing seasons around you, and the way plants and animals respond to these changes. Trees change color. Birds migrate, and bears go into hibernation. So, we wonder, what are the seasonal cues in the abyss? Are summer days longer than winter days in the deep-sea? What’s the ocean equivalent of rainfall, anyhow?
View More Is there springtime for the Abyss?From The Desk of Zelnio: New Geophysical Study May Point The Direction To New Vent Discoveries
Perspective view of East Pacific Rise and the seismic velocity structure of the underlying mantle. Surprisingly, regions of magma storage in the mantle (shown as…
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Researchers report that an approach used for years to understand the structure of Earth’s oceanic crust is flawed and geoscientists will have reconsider the correspondence…
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Researchers report that an approach used for years to understand the structure of Earth’s oceanic crust is flawed and geoscientists will have reconsider the correspondence…
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