Geology
Environment
Understanding water shortage
Specialists discuss water resources and how to preserve them
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Computation
Software detects minor earthquakes
Researchers in the US have created a computer program that can detect small tremors and distinguish minor earthquakes from background noise
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Geoscience
Scars of a cataclysm in Central Brazil
Meteorite impact 250 million years ago caused earthquake and tsunami
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Geology
Pleasant refuges in a world of volcanoes
Life on Earth may have emerged on land 4 billion years ago
GEOPHYSICS
Tension beneath the Earth
Characterization of geologic faults explains earthquakes in Brazil
Geology
Ocean reefs may have emerged 20 million years earlier than previously thought
Ocean reefs may have emerged 20 million years earlier than previously thought
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Geophysics
Vestiges of primitive Earth
Rigid blocks the size of continents occupied the depths of the Earth
Paleontology
Bacteria that preserve fossils
The action of microorganisms may help preserve fragments of soft tissue
Amazon
Age of the Amazon River estimated at 9 million years
A new study estimates that the river formed between 9.4 and 9 million years ago
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Zealandia
Zealandia, a new continent that is almost entirely submerged, proposed by geologists
A new continent that is almost entirely submerged, proposed by geologists
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GEOPHYSICS
The underground element
A percentage of the world’s carbon is hidden deep within the Earth
ASTRONOMY
Titan’s landscape
Methane creates canyons and lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon
Geology
From rock to ocean
Mineral may also have contributed to greater oxygenation of the atmosphere
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
Under the force of the Andes
Map subdivided the topographic relief of South America into 35 units
Discovery
Two new Brazilian minerals described
The list of type minerals from Brazil grew to 68 unique species in June
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