Geoscience Bulletin Board – 12 February 2024

Ongoing glacial isostatic adjustment of Greenland – underscores complexity of geological interaction with climate

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-rapid-climate-greenland-bedrock-small.html

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/greenland-no-longer-has-to-worry-about-rising-sea-levels/ar-BB1hH4d5

·???????? GNET:? https://go-gnet.org/

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL104851

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Evolution of westerly wind circulation impacted by uplift of Tibetan Plateau – rapid Late Miocene uplift

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2022-09-tibetan-uplift-affects-evolution-westerly.html

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL099311

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2022-12-reveals-strong-uplift-northeastern-tibet.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo2475

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2022-08-exploring-mechanism-tibetan-plateau-uplift.html

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Hydrologic control of dissolved lithium isotopes in fresh water streams & saltwater

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2022-06-hydrology-lithium-isotopes-rivers-seawater.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31076-y

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Using stream profiles to trace tectonic evolution in African & Arabian deserts over past 30 million years

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2022-01-recovering-mantle-memories-river-profiles.html

·???????? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JF006345

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Glaciation of Tibetan Plateau in SE Tibet pre-dating MIS-6 – likely MIS-12 approximately 505ka or older

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2021-04-evidence-glaciation-predating-mis-southeastern.html

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Paleo-pressures in sedimentary basins critical to petroleum exploration & prospect prediction

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2020-04-quantitative-reconstruction-formation-paleo-pressure-case.html

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Assessing CO2 emissions from Yellowstone

·???????? https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/how-much-co2-does-yellowstone-emit

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Climate scientists call for new Category 6 on Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale but is based on wind speeds not water which is the most dangerous component – only 5 typhoons with winds of 192 mph or greater over last decade where significant damages caused by poor construction – NHS says “not clear there would be a need for another category”

·???????? https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-stronger-climate-change-pacific-atlantic-86e3abe2c0cc44c3f729e9205e3e35f7

·???????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05022024/is-the-current-hurricane-warning-system-outdated/

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-category-super-cyclones-storm-surges.html

Boulders in Haystack Mountain Conglomerate in Wildcat Ridge in Western Nebraska likely deposited about 23 myo by powerful deep flood waters

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2020-03-ancient-left-boulders-wildcat-ridge.html

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M5.1 shallow earthquake centered just north of Prague, Oklahoma

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/5-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-central-oklahoma-rattling-residents-across-the-state/ar-BB1hI8Lu

·???????? USGS:? https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ok2024cish/executive

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Quantifying erosional response to mountain building over long time scales in Argentine Precordillera

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2016-07-huge-time-lag-erosion-mountain.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X16303028

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Two-decade-long trend in number of cases of Valley Fever in California – typically a self-limited respiratory illness but may lead to progressive pulmonary disease or severe disseminated disease

·???????? https://outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/california-reports-record-number

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Landslide & debris flow season has arrived once again in California

·???????? https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2024/02/06/southern-california-weather-floods-mudslides-atmospheric-river/72488247007/

·???????? https://apnews.com/article/california-storms-atmospheric-river-d6920af2dbaead274a30229cdbba7d97

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New PACE satellite to monitor ocean plankton & atmospheric aerosols

·???????? https://eos.org/articles/new-satellite-will-help-nasa-keep-pace-with-earth-systems

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Olivine serves as catalyst for reaction that produces sugar molecules from formaldehyde

·???????? https://eos.org/articles/olivine-may-have-given-life-a-jump-start

·???????? Paper:? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X23005691

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Stable metal isotopes might reveal reaction of coral to environmental stressors

·???????? https://eos.org/research-spotlights/metals-could-reveal-corals-past-lives

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Using structural geology to analyze metamorphic fabrics (e.g., lineation & foliation) & elasticity

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-geology-potential-effect-elastic-differential.html

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Meteorite that fell near Berlin, Germany, in January 2024 is an achondrite of the aubrite type

·???????? https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1033487

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Understanding extreme snowfall events in Utah – great for skiing in Little Cottonwood Canyon

·???????? https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1033501

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Theory on origin of the Seattle Fault Zone

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/a-new-origin-story-for-deadly-seattle-fault/ar-BB1hSRsr

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022TC007720

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475 mudslides identified so far during current storm in Southern California

·???????? https://abc7.com/mudslide-landslide-storm-la/14391690/

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-mud-debris-hillsides-california.html

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Further refining Theory of Plate Tectonics – faults in the Pacific Plate – Syn-Drift Tectonics

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-geoscientists-pacific-plate-scored-large.html

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL105452

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Landslide of contaminated waste threatens Olst, Denmark – 3M to 6M cubic meters of polluted dirt

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-contaminated-soil-landslide-threatens-danish.html

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Origins of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/study-challenges-origins-of-earth-s-most-powerful-ocean-current-system/ar-BB1hUnKw

·???????? https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/ub-study-challenges-the-classical-view-of-the-origin-of-the-antarctic-circumpolar-current?tn=np

·???????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01356-3

“super El Ni?o” is now past peak on downward trend to neutral phase in spring – “difficult to attribute any single weather system or series of them to El Ni?o”

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/super-el-ni%C3%B1o-is-here-but-will-it-last-what-s-in-store-for-the-coming-months/ar-BB1hWyeN

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Unmanned submersible vehicle Ran of University of Gothenburg lost while exploring Thwaites Glacier

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/there-s-another-missing-submersible-a-3-6-million-vessel-mysteriously-disappeared-near-antarctica-s-doomsday-glacier/ar-BB1hWt0K

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Snowboarders trigger avalanches in backcountry of Lake Tahoe

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/tahoe-snowboarder-triggers-large-backcountry-avalanches/ar-BB1hSBRb

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The “hockey stick chart” guy sing for defamation because others disagreed with his “science” – but science is debate and questioning – take those away and you have ideology like IPCC & Gore as Mann joins Democrat politicians on the campaign trail - $1M verdict is outrageous

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-waiting-12-years-this-famed-climate-scientist-fights-his-critics-in-court/ar-BB1hUXjW

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/climate-scientist-michael-mann-says-1m-verdict-sends-a-clear-message/ar-BB1i3k3T

·???????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022024/michael-mann-defamation-verdict/

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“legalisation of non-compliant buildings through amnesties” cause of deaths in 2023 Turkey earthquake

·???????? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/investigators-identify-main-cause-casualties-145704211.html

·???????? Report download:? https://www.istructe.org/resources/report/eefit-mission-report-turkey-february-2023/

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Pterosaur skeleton found on Isle of Skye

·???????? https://currently.att.yahoo.com/gma/flying-dinosaur-skeleton-discovered-isle-192209723.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2298741

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Low CO2 levels may have been potential cause of Ice Age 717-661 myo – misnomer of “snowball Earth” implies entire planet under Sturtian glaciation rather than just major continental glaciation

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/what-turned-earth-into-a-giant-snowball-700-million-years-ago-scientists-now-have-an-answer/ar-BB1hYZ5W

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Shallow M4.0 earthquake centered about 100 miles east of the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/florida-earthquake-is-largest-ever-recorded-off-the-state-s-east-coast-as-rare-4-0-magnitude-tremor-strikes-just-101-miles-off-the-coast-of-cape-canaveral/ar-BB1hZzmI

·???????? https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000lxp2/executive

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Long history of major earthquakes in the Solomon Islands – evidence of 6 events during past 3,000 years

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2015-06-earthquakes-western-solomon-islands-history.html

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Largest natural flow of hydrogen measured in the Bulqiz??chromite mine in Albania

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-largest-natural-hydrogen-gas-albanian.html

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Late Pleistocene Ice Ages in non-glaciated part of the World were much wetter than previously thought

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ice-ages-dry-thought-australian.html

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Wildfires transform aquatic environments as debris flows into water bodies

·???????? https://new.nsf.gov/news/wildfires-transform-aquatic-ecosystems

·???????? Paper:? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.17058

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Wollemi pine “dinosaur tree” dates back 91 million years growing in Australia

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/dinosaur-trees-thought-extinct-for-2-million-years-found-in-australia-botanical-find-of-the-century/ar-BB1i0hBB

·???????? https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/plants-and-animals/wollemi-pine

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380 myo air-breathing lobe-finned fish fossil found in Harajica Sandstone north of Alice Springs, Australia

·???????? https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1033535

·???????? Paper:? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2285000

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M5.7 earthquake in Hawaii

·???????? https://abcnews.go.com/US/63-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-hawaiis-big-island/story?id=107112019

·???????? https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/hv74103036/executive

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Amateur paleontologists uncovered 470 myo fossil site in Montagne Noire Mountain Range in France

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/amateurs-find-world-class-fossil-site-from-470-million-years-ago/ar-BB1i23GQ

·???????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02331-w

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Sanfordiacaulis densifolia – 3-D Devonian forest fossils discovered in New Brunswick, Canada

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-prehistoric-flora-through-3d-fossil-discoveries/ar-BB1hXTbG

·???????? Paper:? https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00011-3#%20

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High-tech safety equipment to improve survival of avalanches

·???????? https://www.livingstonenterprise.com/townnews/geology/high-tech-equipment-helps-prevent-avalanche-deaths/article_813fbf93-0030-515d-939c-0ad34c9a12a9.html

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Fatal landslide in Wrangell, Alaska, triggered by heavy rainfall

·???????? https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2024/02/08/alaska-state-geologists-report-on-fatal-landslide-in-wrangell-cites-heavy-rainfall-as-trigger/

·???????? Report:? https://dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/pir/text/pir2024_002.pdf

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Atmospheric CO2 over the past 66 million years – Quaternary is way below average – Ice Ages

·???????? https://astrobiology.com/2024/02/geoscientists-map-changes-in-earths-atmospheric-co2-over-the-past-66-million-years.html

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Rapid ice loss of West Antarctic Ice Sheet about 8,000 years ago

·???????? https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1033375

·???????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01375-8

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Ausable Chasm in western New York State

·???????? https://indie88.com/ausable-chasm-new-york/

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AMOC “en route to tipping” based on modeling of just the last millennium

·???????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022024/climate-impacts-from-collapse-of-atlantic-meridional-overturning-current-could-be-worse-than-expected/

·???????? Paper:? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189

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