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Fluid Pressure Changes Grease Cascadia’s Slow Aseismic Earthquakes

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 18 February 202019 August 2022

Twenty-five years’ worth of data allows scientists to suss out subtle signals deep in subduction zones.

Two young women take notes next to freshly upturned soil and a sediment drill.
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Fugitive Gas Abetted by Barometric Pressure

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 19 November 201919 August 2022

Barometric pressure, in addition to factors such as lithology and the depth of the water table, can influence patterns of natural gas that escapes to subsurface soils.

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New Definition of Potential Spicity by the Least Square Method

by Lei Zhou 19 November 201816 February 2023

A thermodynamic function of the potential spicity is defined and it is orthogonal to the potential density in the least square sense.

Ocean water, seen from below the surface, with sunlight beams streaming through.
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Potential Spicity: From Abstract Theory to Practical Application

by Lei Zhou 16 November 201816 February 2023

A method for estimating potential spicity, a thermodynamic variable in oceanography, provides a new way to describe contrasts in watermass properties.

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What Happens to Minerals as They Get Squeezed in the Mantle?

by C. Schultz 4 November 20144 August 2023

Researchers test how different minerals found in the Earth’s mantle respond to high temperatures and pressures.

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Low Heliosphere Pressure Drives Wide CMEs in Weak Solar Cycles

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 29 July 201427 March 2023

Why are coronal mass ejections from the current solar cycle wider than others? Researchers investigate.

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