Mapping the Next Disaster: Deep Underwater Discovery Unlocks Hidden Seismic Hazards
ROVs offer fresh perspectives on the ancient history of the ocean. Marine and coastal geoscience are essential for understanding both ancient and modern geological processes, assessing offshore and ...
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Volcano Watch: Moving magma — what happens after a dike intrudes a rift zone?
Magma moves through Hawaiian rift zones as dikes, which are tabular sheets of magma that move laterally and vertically ...
AI can predict when an earthquake might strike — here’s how
The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) insists that earthquake forecasting is not possible. Thus, the agency only calculates the ...
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Earth's Crust Is Dripping Under Midwest US, Scientists Discover
Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...
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What does a 100-year flood actually mean?
Weather forecasters often use terms like "100-year" or "500-year" floods. Here’s what those terms really mean and why these ...
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The Search for One of North America’s Rarest Birds
Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the ...
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From wildfire ashes to action: Computing student uses data models to predict soil burn severity and outcomes
The goal is to create a physics-informed machine learning model of soil burn severity that not only predicts wildfire impacts ...
Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp'
The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...
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Brazil’s Rivers Are Leaking
Wells overpumping groundwater could be forcing rivers to seep underground, a new study shows. Regions with intensive ...