Environment & Geology

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Geotimes March 2005 Susan E. Hough	Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable? Seismologists are quite good at identifying where large earthquakes are likely to occur on time scales of several decades to centuries, but still unable to identify regions where earthquakes will happen tomorrow, next week, or even within the next few years.
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt	Quake Uplifted Japan A large 17th-century earthquake comparable in size to the Dec. 26 Sumatra quake was responsible for pushing up land in Japan, according to new research based on the sediment record of a large tsunami.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Cities at Risk From Below As urban centers expand, people build more and more underground spaces that remain unmapped. Their interconnections during natural hazards such as floods are a potential threat, according to researchers.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Paleo-Antarctic Puzzle Even though Antarctica was at the south pole around 35 million years ago, it was warm and relatively ice free. What exactly caused its shift to a deep freeze has long puzzled paleoclimatologists.
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt	Dead Zones Off New Jersey Researchers say coastal hypoxia is caused by ocean processes, not river runoff, that are responsible for the oxygen depletion and the resulting hazards that the events pose to bottom-dwelling organisms.
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt	Rocky Debate Over Early Life Scientists fail to replicate a 1996 study on 3.85-billion-year-old rocks that pushed back the date of the earliest evidence for life on Earth by several hundred million years.
Geotimes March 2005	Submarine Hits Unmapped Mountain A U.S. Navy submarine cruising 350 miles south of Guam hit an unmapped seamount, leaving one person dead and more than 20 people injured on Jan. 8.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Keiiti Aki: Seismological Polymath Like the seismic waves he studies, Keiiti Aki's pioneering work on the basic tenets of seismology reaches across the planet.
Geotimes March 2005	An Elevated View of Earth After four years of compiling data from the space shuttle Endeavour, the largest, most detailed topographic map of the world is now complete... Book Reviews - Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes... etc.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 Justin Mullins	London Broil? The UK's capital prepares for rising tides and temperatures. "It's not a question of if, but when," says Baroness Barbara Young, head of Britain's Environment Agency.
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