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University of Maryland via Science Daily
Scientists have developed numerous models to predict how much fuel remains inside Earth to drive its engines — and estimates vary widely — but the true amount remains unknown. In a new article, a team of geologists and neutrino physicists boldly claims it will be able to determine by 2025 how much nuclear fuel and radioactive power remain in the Earth's tank.
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UPI
New research has revealed the movements of the ocean's tectonic plates during the Cretaceous normal superchron. Until now, the movements of oceanic plates during this period haven't been well understood. To solve this problem, a team of scientists began the GEOPLATE project — an effort to reveal more subtle geomagnetic anomalies on the ocean floor.
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The Associated Press via The Daily Progress
Geologists have started on a new study that will measure the thickness of the salty crusts at Utah's famous Bonneville Salt Flats. University of Utah geologists and students began field work on Sept. 5 to drill out core samples at 70 different sites. The scientists will report back their findings to the Bureau of Land Management in 2018. Critics say more immediate action needs to be taken because the salt flats will only continue to deteriorate over the course of the study.
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According to a new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, a large earthquake on one fault can trigger large aftershocks on separate faults within just a few minutes. These findings have important implications for earthquake hazard prone regions like California where ruptures on complex fault systems may cascade and lead to mega-earthquakes.
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Houston Chronicle
The Houston oil exploration company Apache has made one of the biggest U.S. oil and gas discoveries in years, finding the equivalent of more than 15 billion barrels of oil in a relatively unknown quadrant of West Texas's Permian Basin, the company said Sept. 7. Depending on how much oil and gas can be recovered, the discovery could rank among the top finds of the last decade.
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The Huffington Post
It's the food chain as you've never seen it before — unless you were around 48 million years ago. Researchers working at Germany's Messel Pit, a disused quarry near Frankfurt, recently discovered a fossil that shows a bug inside a lizard inside a snake. The magnitude of this find can't be overstated: This is only the second time a fossil showing the culinary habits of so many creatures at once has been discovered.
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U.S. Geological Survey
Nearly 60 years after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Lituya Bay, Alaska — leading to a tsunami that devastated the area — six U.S. Geological Survey geologists revisited the isolated region of Alaska, to pick up where their scientific predecessors left off.
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SciDevNet
Geologists gathered in Beijing for the 33rd International Geographical Congress, held in August, reported that at least six of Tibet's southern lakes could be classified as "very critically dangerous" since they could cause devastating glacial lake outburst floods.
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SETI Institute
The early Martian climate remains hotly debated by scientists because the surface mineralogy and morphology indicate abundant liquid water was present, while atmospheric modeling is challenged to create conditions supportive of liquid water on the surface. New results by SETI Institute researcher Dr. Janice Bishop and Houston colleague Dr. Elizabeth Rampe indicate a change in climate from the environment supporting liquid water and formation of clay minerals to an environment where liquid water was no longer abundant on the surface.
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Alaska Dispatch News
Geologists say a potential major oil discovery in Alaska, coupled with a state geological analysis released this summer, indicate that an often-overlooked rock formation on the North Slope may hold significant potential for future oil discoveries.
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