Geoscience Bulletin Board – 29 January 2024

Research suggests rate of erosion of the Alps is has declined over past 10,000 years ago compared to Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene time (i.e., since the Younger Dryas)

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-01-european-alps-eroding-slower-years.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X23005083

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Fault roughness & stress heterogeneity control induced seismicity – important for hydraulic stimulation in reservoirs

·???????? https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1031695

·???????? Paper:? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310039121

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Inclusions of water in feldspar are key to formation of hydroxyl groups and seeding cloud formation

·???????? https://www.sciencealert.com/we-now-know-why-this-common-rock-is-so-good-at-growing-clouds

·???????? Paper:? https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03235

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Euglenids split off from other eukaryotes about 1 byo – gain energy from photosynthesis & preying on other organisms

·???????? https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-fossils-are-neither-plant-nor-animal-but-a-weird-fusion-of-life

·???????? Paper:? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034666723002129

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Tracking hydrothermal activity in Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone using seismic, ground deformation, low-frequency sound and weather data

·???????? https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/a-new-monitoring-site-track-hydrothermal-activity-norris-geyser-basin

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Quantifying sediment flux from the Himalayas to estimate erosion rates & tectonic changes

·???????? https://eos.org/editor-highlights/how-good-a-recycler-is-the-himalaya

·???????? Paper:?? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JF007164

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22 January 2024 landslide in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan Province, China

·???????? https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/the-22-january-2023-landslide-at-zhenxiong-in-yunnan-province-china

·???????? https://english.news.cn/20240122/693f91421a464aba98715198cfee770a/c.html

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Quantitative model for predicting frictional rock deformation, fault behavior & seismicity

·???????? https://eos.org/editor-highlights/law-and-order-for-friction-and-faults-one-law-to-rule-them-all

·???????? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023AV000972

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High-resolution regional model of Southern Ocean – topographically induced mixing

·???????? https://eos.org/editor-highlights/overturning-ocean-water-by-turbulence

·???????? Paper:? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022AV000858

Attempting to redirect the flow of lava:? earthen dams, berms, lava “freezing” experiment, explosives

·???????? https://theconversation.com/iceland-battles-a-lava-flow-countries-have-built-barriers-and-tried-explosives-in-the-past-but-its-hard-to-stop-molten-rock-221283

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Could early life on Earth have begun in shallow soda lakes?

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-01-shallow-soda-lakes-cradles-life.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01192-8

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Time to shut down moves to play God with the climate – drawdown not geo-engineering with dangerous methods

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-01-carbon-dioxide-play-god-climate.html

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India splitting into separate layers – delamination of lithospheric mantle during flat-slab subduction

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/india-is-starting-to-split-in-two-new-study-discovers/ar-BB1h4BWB

·???????? Paper:? https://essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.170000377.75686509/v1

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Marine geological sample repositories are vital for oceanography, climate studies, and more

·???????? https://eos.org/features/the-importance-of-archiving-the-seafloor

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Update on M7.0 Uqturpan earthquake near Kyrgyzstan-China border – oblique thrust fault

·???????? https://eos.org/articles/magnitude-7-0-quake-rattles-kyrgyzstan-china-border

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Ice volcanoes on the beach of Lake Michigan

·???????? https://www.newsweek.com/ice-volcanoes-erupt-beach-1863332

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Attributing recent Northern Hemisphere continental cold waves to decadal mid-latitude ocean fronts not Arctic arming and weakening of Jest Stream due to declining Arctic Sea ice

·???????? https://phys.org/news/2024-01-cold-east-asia-north-america.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43686-1

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Obsessed with finding extreme temperatures

·???????? Abstract & link to pdf paper:? https://journals.ametsoc.org/configurable/content/journals$002fbams$002faop$002fBAMS-D-23-0095.1$002fBAMS-D-23-0095.1.xml

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Megalodon was skinnier that theatrical depictions

·???????? https://www.sci.news/paleontology/slender-otodus-megalodon-12623.html

·???????? Paper:? https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5079-megalodon-body-form

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Images of heat emanating from fracture and lava flow at Grindavik, Iceland

·???????? https://www.sciencealert.com/insane-nasa-satellite-image-reveals-heat-leaking-from-icelands-new-fissures

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Keuhneosaurs – Triassic gliding winged reptiles lived in Mendip Hills in Somerset, England

·???????? https://www.sci.news/paleontology/kuehneosaurs-12620.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787823000998

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Eagle lizard – Aetosaurs of the Late Triassic discovered in Texas

·???????? https://www.sci.news/paleontology/garzapelta-muelleri-12617.html

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Magerifelis peignei – Middle Miocene mid-sized cat species from Spain

·???????? https://www.sci.news/paleontology/magerifelis-peignei-12614.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2288924

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Oldest known fossilized skin is 289 myo from cave system in Richards Spur Limestone in Oklahoma – Captorhinus aguti an early reptile

·???????? https://www.sci.news/paleontology/captorhinus-aguti-skin-12605.html

·???????? Paper:? https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01663-9

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Palau becomes first nation to ratify UN High Seas Treaty – 15 years of discussions

·???????? https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Palau_becomes_first_nation_to_ratify_UN_high_seas_treaty_999.html

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No big surprise:? Iceberg A23a moving northward from Antarctica - melting & battered by waves

·???????? https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Worlds_biggest_iceberg_battered_by_waves_as_it_heads_north_999.html

Water levels in 2016 from multiple-well aquifer test in basalts in northeastern Oregon

·???????? https://www.usgs.gov/publications/water-level-change-a-multiple-well-aquifer-test-volcanic-rocks-umatilla-indian

·???????? OFR 2023-1081:? https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2023/1081/ofr20231081.pdf

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Newest version of NCEI coastal relief models

·???????? https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/foundational-coastal-models-updated

·???????? Coastal Relief Model:? https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/coastal-relief-model

·???????? Interactive Map:? https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/?layers%3Ddem&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1643986611990152&usg=AOvVaw31nGXsOJZRWe57Fxqmvjkc

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Hellfire and brimstone in the Pacific Northwest

·???????? https://dailyyonder.com/mount-st-helens-natural-disasters/2024/01/24/

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Strongest earthquake in Colorado history was MMI VII (M6.6) on 8 November 1882

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/colorado-s-most-powerful-earthquake-really-tipped-the-ritcher-scale/ar-BB1hctBf

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Strongest historic earthquake in Washington State was 1700 Cascadia even with M8.7 to M9.2

·???????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-most-powerful-earthquake-to-ever-rumble-through-washington-state/ar-BB1hbdjQ

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Kenya continues to develop geothermal resources beneath the Great Rift Valley

·???????? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/25/our-contribution-to-a-cleaner-world-how-kenya-found-an-extraordinary-power-source-beneath-its-feet

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