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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The geologic formation of the supervolcano encompassing the Yellowstone National Park region has been the subject of much debate. A new study, led by the University of Rhode Island's Professor Christopher Kincaid, provides new evidence that may put an end to the debate by demonstrating both sides may be right. The international team of scientists used a state-of-the-art plate tectonic laboratory to show the volcanism in the...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a new study from a team of German researchers, geological forces are stagnating in certain regions because of pressure-induced phase transitions. The Earth’s crust is in a constant state of flux, with solid slabs diving hundreds of miles down into the mantle as hot liquid magma rises up to fill the gaps. According to study author Falko Langenhorst from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, these forces are constantly...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online By using electromagnetic technology to map a large area of seafloor near Central America and the northern East Pacific Rise, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography report that they have a better idea of the origin of the erupted magma that eventually becomes new seafloor. Scientists have known for several decades that the seafloor is formed throughout the major ocean basins at the linear chains of volcanoes known...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Scientists from the University of California, San Diego’s (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) have discovered a liquefied layer of molten rock in the planet’s mantle – a substance which could be acting as a lubricant of the sliding motions of the Earth’s tectonic plates. The magma layer was discovered at the Middle America trench offshore Nicaragua during a 2010 expedition aboard the US Navy-owned research...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers wrote in a newspaper published by the American Geophysical Union that Earth's interior cycles have contributed to long-term sea-level rises and climate change. New York University and Ottawa's Carleton University scientists say activity below the earth's surface has played a role before in ancient rises in sea levels and global warming. Although it may seem like welcoming news for climate change skeptics, the authors...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Despite the absence of any recent tectonic activity in the area, one region of the Appalachian Mountains looks vastly different from its surroundings, leading a team of US researchers to conclude that the location had undergone a transformation they refer to as a “geological facelift.” Sean Gallen, a graduate student in marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at North Carolina State University, and Karl Wegmann, an assistant...

A new look at the science of plate tectonics Saint Cloud, Fla. (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 “When plate tectonics is viewed as a cycle, it can be imagined to start and restart with eruptions at the earth’s ride and rise system,” explains author and professor John H. Carman. To help explain to readers this geological occurrence, Carman pens his new book, “How the Earth's Plate Tectonic Cycle Works: CMB Reaction” In his new book, Carman offers a new thesis in the field of plate...

GREENBELT, Md., June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT) in Greenbelt, Md., to provide geophysics, geodynamics, and space geodesy support. The total maximum ordering value of the cost-plus-fixed fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will be $45 million. The effective ordering period is from July 1 through Aug. 31, 2015. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Under this contract, SGT will...

The Tata Power Company, an integrated power company, has decided to acquire 29.4 million ordinary shares of Geodynamics, representing 11.4% of the current issued share capital, equivalent to 10% of the increased share capital after allotment by Geodynamics. The shares will be acquired by Tata Power at an issued price of A$1.50 per share, entailing a total investment of A$44.1 million in absolute terms. As part of the investment, Tata Power will also get a directorship on the board of...