The fact that Mars was geologically active in the distant past is no secret to anyone. In fact, all rocky planets in our solar system probably were. But the latest data sent back by a NASA spacecraft indicate that quakes occurred on the Red Planet only a few million years ago.
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21 February 2012
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In a discovery that raises a lot of new questions on the mechanisms and processes that led to the formation of the Moon, researchers identified telltale signs on the surface of Earth's natural satellite indicating that it may have been geologically active as recently as 50 million years ago.
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20 February 2012
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Cuadrilla hired a team of independent experts to find out if their activity in Lancashire is responsible for two seismic events which took place in that region. The group published their conclusions earlier today. It seems that Cuadrilla's name might be indeed correlated with those two incidents.
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2 November 2011
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A group of researchers presented the results of a new scientific investigation earlier this month, showing for the first time the existence of magma chambers below the surface of the Hawaii Islands, at extremely shallow depths. The research showed that some of the chambers lie 1.9 to 2.5 miles (3 to 4 kilometers) bel... |
3 January 2011
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Recently, scientists at the Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of California in Irvine (UCI) conducted a new research on the San Andreas fault line, but this time at the site of the giant earthquake of Fort Tejon (1857). The investigators analyzed data on stream channel offsets in the region, and were ... |
22 January 2010
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Wouter Schellart, a geoscientist at the Monash University, in Victoria, Australia, led a team of researchers that managed to discover that a stretch of land existed between New Zealand and New Caledonia, one which bound the two regions together, millions of years ago. In the meantime, the land submerged and eventuall... |
5 March 2009
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