Geoscience Bulletin Board – 2 October 2023

New “Roadside Geology of Kansas” – “flyover country”

·???????? https://www.derbyinformer.com/news/derby_news/new-book-spotlights-kansas-geology/article_8680cfa4-5977-11ee-aae7-2bdd864c44c4.html

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The discovery by Marie Tharp of a rift in the Atlantic Ocean floor – translated 3,000 feet of echo sounding lines

·???????? https://www.businessinsider.com/geologist-marie-tharp-ocean-floor-map-mid-altantic-rfit-2023-9

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The shared geological landscape of Pennsylvania and Portugal

·???????? https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/pitt-johnstown-pennsylvania-portugal-pangea

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Geologists with MDEQ find the lost Mississippi Mound Trail marker sign for the Rolling Fork Mounds

·???????? https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/mdeq-geologists-find-lost-rolling-fork-mounds-marker/

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Uttarakhand High Court in India agrees there is no reason to keep Joshimath subsidence investigation records secret – “would provide vital information to the public”

·???????? https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/no-reason-to-keep-experts-reports-on-joshimath-subsidence-secret-uttarakhand-high-court-546803

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“Father of American geology” and others ventured on the keelboat Philantropist to settle in Indiana frontier in New Harmony in 1825-1826

·???????? https://daily.jstor.org/a-boatload-of-knowledge-for-new-harmony/

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GPS data outliers – interpreting data & monitoring ground deformation in Yellowstone

·???????? https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/heres-how-we-know-outliers-gps-data-arent-real-ground-movement

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More seismic activity in the Camp Flegrei volcanic field that is pushing up the ground by 1.5 cm per month

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/earthquakes-hit-italy-super-volcano-raising-spectre-of-evacuations/ar-AA1hlCfp

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Assessing the compound earthquake risk in Seattle, Washington - Dendrochronology pinpoints seismic event from late AD 923 or early 924 in Puget Sound – 25-ft displacement, tsunami & landslides

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2023-09-tree-reveal-kind-earthquake-threat.html

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/earthquake-threat-to-major-us-city-likely-underestimated-scientists-say/ar-AA1hmblK

·???????? Paper:? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh4973

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Marine sediment record of climatic conditions during Late Pliocene and Plio-Pleistocene transition

·???????? https://eos.org/editors-vox/marine-sediments-reveal-past-climate-responses-to-co2-changes

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022RG000793

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Flowing lower crust could be cause of low-angle normal faults

·???????? https://eos.org/articles/flowing-crust-pushes-faults-on-their-backs

·???????? Paper:? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X23003229

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Visualizing oil production by country in 2022

·???????? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-worlds-biggest-oil-producers-in-2022/

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Visualizing the depths of submarine cables around the world

·???????? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charting-the-depths-the-world-of-subsea-cables/

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Protecting bats and mineral deposits in Jewel Cave National Monument in South Dakota

·???????? https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/09/protecting-bats-jewel-cave-national-monument

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Soil liquefaction can occur under drained conditions at remarkably low seismic-energy density levels

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2023-09-reveals-insights-soil-liquefaction-earthquakes.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41405-4

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Linked faults explain mythology of Scylla & Charybdis and geologic hazards in Strait of Messina

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2023-09-linked-faults-ancient-mythology-world.html

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“AI will transform science – now researchers must tame it” – isn’t that like closing the barn door after the horse runs away?? Or in this case, letting the computer do the ‘thinking’ which reminds me of “garbage in, garbage out”

·???????? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02988-6

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Damage Information Reporting Tool – 2022 Analysis – download report on underground structure damages

·???????? https://dirt.commongroundalliance.com/

·???????? Report:? https://commongroundalliance.com/Portals/0/Common%20Ground%20Alliance%20DIRT%20Annual%20Report%202022%20-%20FINAL%20(1).pdf

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What happens when an earthquake hits flood-damaged coastal building & corroded by saltwater?

·???????? https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2023/09/earthquakes-salt-corrosion.html

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“Deep Sleep” glamping in Wales within Cwmorthin Slate Quarry

·???????? https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2023/09/deep-sleep-takes-underground-construction-to-extreme-depths

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Strongest M8.0+ earthquakes in North America

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/the-strongest-8-0-earthquakes-to-strike-north-america/ss-AA1hlLL7

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New study confirms Gulf Stream current has slowed down by 4% over past 4 decades in the Florida Straits

·???????? https://www.ecowatch.com/gulf-stream-weakening-science.html

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL105170

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Possible conduit for water flow being released out of a subducting slab

·???????? https://eos.org/editor-highlights/fluid-release-from-subducted-slabs-without-percolation-flow

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Kaolinite may provide mineral exploration technique to locate gold and critical minerals

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2023-09-kaolinite-clay-great-mask-key.html

Tidal-induced seismicity increased locally prior to the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake

·???????? https://eos.org/editor-highlights/earthquakes-have-preparatory-stage-years-before-rupture

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL104375

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Removing human bias from debate over the demise of the dinosaurs – meteor vs volcanism

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2023-09-human-bias-debate-dinosaurs-demise.html

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Understanding the origins of Super-bolts of lightning

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2023-09-superbolts-scientists-figure-earth-strongest.html

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JD038254

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New technique for potentially converting mine waste into healthy soil

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2023-09-healthy-soil.html

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Water content differences in the lithosphere and upper Mantle may explain observed seismic wave attenuation

·???????? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230927003101.htm

·???????? Paper:? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221770120

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Examining convective clouds along coastlines

·???????? https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1002962

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Waukesha Biota provides glimpse of 437 myo lagoon

·???????? https://www.sci.news/paleontology/early-silurian-life-12311.html

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Groundwater flow model of Treasure Valley in SW Idaho from 1986 to 2015

·???????? https://www.usgs.gov/publications/groundwater-flow-model-treasure-valley-southwestern-idaho-1986-2015

·???????? SIR 2023-5096:? pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2023/5096/sir20235096.pdf

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Documenting the dinosaur Coliseum in Denali National Park – largest known single dinosaur track in Alaska

·???????? https://new.nsf.gov/news/scientists-explore-dinosaur-coliseum-denali

·???????? Paper:? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2023.2221267

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Update:? Disappearance of geologist Daniel Robinson in 2021 in Buckeye, Arizona

·???????? https://www.abc15.com/news/region-west-valley/buckeye/father-of-missing-geologist-says-evidence-points-to-foul-play

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Refined map of Zealandia

·???????? https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/earth-sciences/zealandia-map-ancient-continent/