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CSalar-Grande-Basin-Chile-rock-minerals-clues-to-carbon-cycle-life-on-Mars
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Rocks in Chile Help Scientists Hunt for Life on Mars

by M. McKinnon 9 August 201612 April 2022

Investigating oxalate minerals in the Atacama Desert provides a terrestrial analogue to test techniques that could be used to study the carbon cycle in the cold deserts of Mars.

18 July 2013 eruption of Sakurajima volcano in Japan.
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Japan's Volcanic History, Hidden Under the Sea

by W. Yan 24 June 20166 December 2021

Scientists investigate marine tephra layers for clues to Japan's volcanic past.

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Early Agriculture Has Kept Earth Warm for Millennia

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 19 January 20169 May 2023

Ice core data, archeological evidence, and other studies suggest humans had a significant influence on Earth's preindustrial climate.

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High-Resolution Tools Advance Study of Paleoclimate Archives

by I. J. Orland, J. W. Valley and N. T. Kita 8 December 201525 March 2022

HiRes2015: High Resolution Proxies of Paleoclimate; Madison, Wisconsin, 31 May to 3 June 2015

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Correlating Monsoon Strength with Boron Isotopes

by C. Minnehan 19 October 20152 March 2023

Scientists tell the story of the past monsoon by measuring boron isotopes in organisms in the Arabian Sea.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Drove Sea Surface Temperature Change During the Pleistocene?

by J. Orwig 2 March 201516 March 2023

New information suggests that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration was just one of the main drivers of warming sea surface temperatures in the Pleistocene.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Wave Ripples Spaced by Flow Downstream of Ripple Peaks

by J. Rosen 12 February 201511 February 2022

The well-known ratio between sand ripple spacing and wave-driven flow oscillations may be dictated by flow dynamics downstream of ripple crests.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Ancient Earthquakes Made an Island Rise and Fall

by C. Schultz 31 December 201424 January 2023

Observations track elevation changes of an island in the Kodiak Archipelago to past ruptures of the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust fault.

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River Slope Connects Modern Topography with Ancient Tectonics

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 10 December 201410 February 2023

Scientists create models to help them figure out how the slope of a river can record ancient tectonic activity.

Posted inScience Updates

Quaternary Sea Ice Reconstruction: Proxy Data and Modeling

by R. Gersonde, A. de Vernal and E. W. Wolff 18 November 201424 March 2023

3rd Sea Ice Proxy Working Group Workshop: Sea Ice Proxy Synthesis and Data-Model Comparison; Bremerhaven, Germany, 23−25 June 2014

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