Geoscience Bulletin Board – 29 May 2023

Transporting fossils of ginormous long-necked dinosaur destabilized the vehicle and caused accident but bones were not damaged when they hit and broke the asphalt

·        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/humongous-100-foot-long-dinosaur-from-argentina-is-so-big-its-fossils-broke-the-road-during-transport/ar-AA1btyny

Perspective: Ice-core data of temperatures over last 8,000 years – from which IPCC cherry picked the interval to justify their “man-made global warming” alarmism

·        https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/ice-core-samples-reveal-that-un-ipcc

Deadliest ever climbing season on Mount Everest

·        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/deaths-soar-on-everest-after-record-number-of-climbers-attempt-summit/ar-AA1bCaly

Popocatépetl volcano erupting in Mexico

·        https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177917332/popocatepetl-volcano-eruption-mexico-city-smoke-ash-evacution

·        https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/22/americas/mexico-volcano-popocatepetl-latam-intl/index.html

Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia

·        https://phys.org/news/2023-05-indonesia-merapi-volcano-erupts-spewing.html

USGS data releases on Kīlauea and Mauna Loa

·        https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/new-usgs-data-releases-provide-data-kilauea-and-mauna-loa

Eruption of Mount Etna in Italy

·        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italy-s-mount-etna-erupts-forcing-airport-closure/ar-AA1btGmA

Still learning about Mount St Helens

·        https://www.yahoo.com/news/43-years-eruption-mount-st-035900689.html

Navigating the ancient oceans

·        https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/paddling-an-angry-ancient-ocean/

How will the global warming alarmists interpret the cooling of the upper atmosphere?

·        https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-upper-atmosphere-cooling

·        Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300758120

Turnagain Arm mudflats can be deadly – stuck in the mud & then the tide quickly rose

·        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/these-infamous-alaskan-mud-flats-just-caused-another-death/ar-AA1bHd0Y

NOAA predicts average number of storms for 2023 North Atlantic Hurricane season

·        https://eos.org/articles/outlook-normal-atlantic-hurricane-season-expected

Giant Sevier gravity slide in Utah had exceedingly low basal friction due to trapped thermally pressurized fluids

·        https://eos.org/editor-highlights/a-giant-rockslide-on-a-bed-of-steam

·        Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GC010783

Need for curating scientific data

·        https://eos.org/features/the-art-of-scientific-curation

Southern Ocean may derive nutrients from Penguin guano washing off the land – declining penguin populations

·        https://eos.org/articles/penguin-poop-may-flush-iron-into-the-southern-ocean 

Visualizing the uranium mining industry

·        https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/uranium-mining-industry-3-charts/

5,000+ previously unknown species found in future deep-sea mining hotspot in Pacific Ocean CCZ

·        https://www.treehugger.com/5000-new-deep-sea-species-found-future-mining-hotspot-7504578

·        Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00534-1

Short-term changes in lake area in permafrost regions of Arctic & Tibetan Plateau (1987-2017)

·        https://phys.org/news/2023-05-reveals-lake-area-permafrost-regions.html

Recent volcanic activity ended about 8,300 years ago in Garrotxa region of Iberian Peninsula

·        https://phys.org/news/2023-05-volcanic-garrotxa-region-years-reveal.html

Deep circulation impacts oxygen levels in Southern Ocean

·        https://phys.org/news/2023-05-earth-deep-ocean-oxygen-declining.html

·        Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01667-8

Whales very rarely have cancer – Peto’s paradox

·        https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-paradox-of-how-whales-avoid-cancer-has-a-new-solution

·        Paper preprint:  https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.07.539748v1.full.pdf

Iron-rich meteoritic and volcanic particles may have helped generate life on Earth 4.4 byo

·        https://www.sci.news/space/iron-rich-meteoritic-volcanic-particles-origin-life-reactions-early-earth-11951.html

·        Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33741-8

Saber-toothed predator may have migrated 11,300 km across Pangea

·        https://www.sci.news/paleontology/south-african-inostrancevia-11935.html

Painting of Benjamin Franklin’s 1752 kite experiment is likely riddled with errors

·        https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/your-fave-illustration-of-franklins-kite-experiment-is-likely-riddled-with-errors/

Impacts of gold mining in Venezuela in the Mining Arc of the Orinoco

·        https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-gold-mine-orinoco-open-pit-5e8d43c4e72a143ae17133f1d3298af3

NASA launches final pair of satellite quartet designed to track tropical cyclones hour by hour

·        https://phys.org/news/2023-05-nasa-pair-storm-tracker-satellite.html

AI in Geology? Perhaps to suggest explanations that geologists could then review and either accept or reject

·        https://citylife.capetown/uncategorized/ai-in-geology-analyzing-earths-past-and-predicting-its-future/26135/

Modeling quantitative composition of ultrahigh-pressure fluid in deep subduction zones – cycling of C & S

·        https://phys.org/news/2023-05-quantitative-composition-ultrahigh-pressure-fluid-deep.html

·        Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219083120

Book Review: “Deep Oakland: How geology shaped a city” – see segments of Hayward fault

·        https://oaklandside.org/2023/05/26/oakland-deep-geology-hayward-fault/

·        https://oaklandgeology.com/

Once again assessing heavy metals contamination in groundwater in Punjab & Haryana, India

·        https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/geological-survey-of-india-to-assess-groundwater-contamination-by-heavy-metals-in-punjab-and-haryana-511828

Perspective: The risks of burying carbon dioxide deep underground

·        https://www.nola.com/opinions/guest-column-carbon-capture-geological-risk-for-louisiana/article_c6c6c5c8-fa09-11ed-a20c-83df8fcf35b5.html

In Memoriam: Arthur Gibbs Sylvester (1938-2023) – UCBS Professor Emeritus and valued colleague

·        https://www.independent.com/obits/2023/05/26/arthur-gibbs-sylvester/

Mourne Gullion Strangford in Northern Ireland formally designated as UNESCO Global Geopark

·        https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-65702645

River erosion in Appalachia creates habitats that support biodiversity of freshwater fish species

·        https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/990470

Geological compass marketing analysis reflects the on-going need for this basic tool

·        https://www.openpr.com/news/3068626/geological-compass-market-analysis-trends-and-dynamic-demand

The resurgent dome of Long Valley Caldera in California

·        https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/calvo/news/what-makes-long-valleys-resurgent-dome-reach-skies

·        SIR 2017-5022-L:  https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2017/5022/l/sir20175022l.pdf

Dinosaur Ridge in Colorado

·        https://www.uponarriving.com/dinosaur-ridge/

Mantle core samples obtained by JOIDES Resolution in Expedition 399

·        https://www.science.org/content/article/long-last-ocean-drillers-exhume-bounty-rocks-earth-s-mantle

·        https://joidesresolution.org/record-hole-in-mantle-rock/

Optimism for nickel mining bordering Lake Superior – proposed copper-nickel PolyMet Mine

·        https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_077708ee-fbe5-11ed-94a7-835893b92a6e.html

University of Kansas graduate student fell from off-trail rocky overhand & drowned in Glacier National Park

·        https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article275827941.html

Eruption of Tonga volcano in 2022 disrupted satellite signals

·        https://bgr.com/science/last-years-tonga-volcano-eruption-was-so-big-it-disrupted-satellite-signals-in-space/

Significant amounts of fallout radionuclides from nuclear accidents & weapons testing contained in glacial ice

·        https://physicsworld.com/a/trapped-in-ice-the-surprisingly-high-levels-of-artificial-radioactive-isotopes-found-in-glaciers/

This makes “perfect” sense: store “green” hydrogen gas in coal

·        https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/the-surprising-plan-to-store-hydrogen-in-coal

·        https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2023/05/27/coal-as-a-geological-hydrogen-battery-a-promising-breakthrough-i.html