Lab experiments constrain conditions necessary for a key mineral to have formed in ancient lagoons and a crater lake.
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Thermal Signature of Martian River Deposits Suggests Cementation
Are there indications of extended aqueous processes beyond the period of widespread fluvial activity on Mars?
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Updates on Understanding Mars’s Recent and Present-Day Climate
Mars Workshop on Amazonian and Present-day Climate; Lakewood, Colorado, 18–22 June 2018
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Ancient Faults Amplify Intraplate Earthquakes
A comparison of deformation rates from Canada’s Saint Lawrence Valley offers compelling evidence that strain in the region is concentrated along ancient structures from previous tectonic cycles.
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Managing Uncertainties in Climate Engineering
Control theory and climate engineering meet in a new special issue of JGR: Atmospheres.
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Unraveling the Origin of Slow Earthquakes
Different nucleation styles detected in five slow-slip events in the same area of Japan’s Ryukyu subduction zone suggest the physical properties along this tectonic plate interface change over time.
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Next Olympics Marathon Course Has Dangerous “Hot Spots” for Spectators
Spectators’ health may be jeopardized by high heat loads along the 2020 Olympics marathon course in Tokyo, a bicycle-mounted meteorological survey found.
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Seven New Awardees of Celebrate 100 Grants
These latest creative and far-reaching projects chosen for AGU Centennial support range from a giant map of Mars for display on the U.S. National Mall to a climate science workshop in Puerto Rico.
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Exploring Uncertainty in Streamflow Estimates
A review of streamflow uncertainty estimation methods reveals that one method does not fit all situations and provides recommendations for how to improve streamflow estimates.