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Geologist plans volcano safety for Ecuadorians
A geologist at Washington University in St. Louis is doing his part to make sure that the small Latin American country of Ecuador follows the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared.   view more (2007-08-22)

Huge tsunami spurred progress, revealed needs
The catastrophic tsunami that struck Indonesia and East Asia almost a year ago has done much to heighten the interest, research programs and preparations in the United States for events of this type, but experts say there are areas that need more attention and challenges yet to be met.   view more (2005-12-05)

Photocell Provides Both Heat And Electricity
In 1969, scientists at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg made heterostructured photoelectric cells based on the elements of the third and the fifth group of the periodic table (for example, gallium arsenide). Now the photocells can find application not only in space, but also on... view more (2001-11-27)

Twentieth "Polarstern" expedition to Arctic is drawing to a close
On October 3rd, the German research vessel "Polarstern" of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research will return to Bremerhaven from its 20th arctic expedition. During the last leg of the voyage, 44 scientists from Germany, Russia and South Korea, supported by crew... view more (2004-10-04)

Scripps/UCSD geophysicist among international team finding evidence of first plate tectonics
Identification of the oldest preserved pieces of Earth's crust in southern Greenland has provided evidence of active plate tectonics as early as 3.8 billion years ago, according to a report by an international team of geoscientists in the March 23 edition of Science magazine.   view more (2007-03-23)

Physicists Find that Size Matters When Initiating an Object's Movement Through Grains
A team of Penn State physicists has discovered that the size of grains, such as sand grains, under which an object is buried is important in determining the force required to begin raising the object.   view more (2008-09-29)

Oldest Known Rock on Earth Discovered
Canadian bedrock more than 4 billion years old may be the oldest known section of the Earth's early crust.   view more (2008-09-29)

Cassini finds recent, unusual geology on Enceladus
New detailed images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus reveal distinctive geological features, and the most youthful terrains of any seen on Enceladus.   view more (2005-07-27)

Chinese earthquake provides lessons for future
The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large. Analysis of the area, however, now shows that topographic characteristics of the highly mountainous area identified the mountain range as active and could have pointed to the earthquake hazard. Topographic analysis can help evaluate... view more (2008-07-22)

Ancient glaciers still affect the shape of North America, say scientists
Long after the disappearance of the glaciers that once covered much of North America, the land they rested upon is still recovering from their weight - and the slow movement of this recovery includes horizontal motion never seen before.   view more (2005-12-15)

Supercomputer Unleashes Virtual 9.0 Megaquake in Pacific Northwest
On January 26, 1700, at about 9 p.m. local time, the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the ocean in the Pacific Northwest suddenly moved, slipping some 60 feet eastward beneath the North American plate in a monster quake of approximately magnitude 9, setting in motion large tsunamis that struck the coast... view more (2008-02-27)

Measure the speed of light using Milky Way Stars®
Nothing travels faster than light - it only takes 8 minutes for it to reach the Earth from the nearest star, the Sun, which is 150 million kilometres away. Now anyone can measure this speed - with chocolate stars and a microwave oven! The experiment is described on a new Institute of Physics web... view more (2003-01-27)

The area of influence of earthquakes could be larger than is currently thought
Dr Álvaro Corral, a Ramón y Cajal researcher for the UAB Department of Physics, studies the relationships between the time and place of earthquake occurrences (ie, the jumps between an initial earthquake and another earthquake at a later time in another place) using statistical physics methods.   view more (2006-11-22)

SMART-1 diagnoses wrinkles and excess weight on the Moon
Owing to SMART-1's high resolution and favourable illumination conditions during the satellite's scientific operations, data from Europe's lunar orbiter is helping put together a story linking geological and volcanic activity on the Moon.   view more (2007-08-23)

Why a Rocky Mountain high?
A University of Utah study shows how various regions of North America are kept afloat by heat within Earth's rocky crust, and how much of the continent would sink beneath sea level if not for heat that makes rock buoyant.   view more (2007-06-25)

Fossils found in Tibet by FSU geologist revise history of elevation, climate
About 15,000 feet up on Tibet's desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, an international research team led by Florida State University geologist Yang Wang was surprised to find thick layers of ancient lake sediment filled with plant, fish and animal fossils typical of far lower elevations and warmer,... view more (2008-06-12)

Mountain ranges rise dramatically faster than expected
Two new studies by a University of Rochester researcher show that mountain ranges rise to their height in as little as two million years-several times faster than geologists have always thought.   view more (2006-01-27)

10 questions shaping 21st-century earth science identified
Ten questions driving the geological and planetary sciences were identified today in a new report by the National Research Council. Aimed at reflecting the major scientific issues facing earth science at the start of the 21st century, the questions represent where the field stands, how it arrived... view more (2008-03-13)

Geologist urges seismic shift in process for selecting EarthScope study sites
EarthScope, an enormous, nationwide earth science project, is poised to revolutionize understanding of earthquakes, fault systems, volcanoes and the North American continent's structure.   view more (2005-10-17)

Deadly mine 'bump' was recorded as seismic event
The University of Utah Seismograph Stations recorded a magnitude-1.6 seismic event at the time of a Thursday, Aug. 16 "bump" that killed and injured rescuers at a Utah coal mine where six miners were trapped by an Aug. 6 collapse.   view more (2007-08-20)

Winning at logistics with a roulette wheel
Employees in post offices spend the entire day sorting parcels and packets of various shapes and sizes. This can now be done by a tireless, reliable and automatic rotating sorting machine resembling a large roulette wheel. A prototype rotates at the Hanover Fair. ---------- Many a workday is dull... view more (2002-04-16)

X-rays use diamonds as a window to the center of the Earth
Diamonds from Brazil have provided the answers to a question that Earth scientists have been trying to understand for many years: how is oceanic crust that has been subducted deep into the Earth recycled back into volcanic rocks?   view more (2008-08-13)

Ceramic material revs up microwaving
Quicker microwave meals that use less energy may soon be possible with new ceramic microwave dishes and, according to the material scientists responsible, this same material could help with organic waste remediation.   view more (2008-08-29)

Journal of the Geological Society. Contents Vol 156 part 6
The Journal of the Geological Society Volume 156, Part 6, November 1999   view more (1999-10-27)

San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth reveals new insights into the 'earthquake machine'
The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)-the first underground observatory to provide physical samples and real-time seismological data from deep inside an active fault zone-is yielding surprising new clues about the origin of earthquakes.   view more (2005-12-06)
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