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The articles displayed herein are selected by Dr. Elaine J. Hanford. I do not necessarily agree with the viewpoints expressed and the article descriptions that precede each link.
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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 20 March 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Speleothem data from Cave of the Mounds strongly suggest warming event between 48,000 and 68,000 years ago in Wisconsin during last Ice Age
Calling pro-glacial Lake Agassiz the “lost 6th Great Lake”
Full-scale unreinforced masonry building to be seismically tested on shake table – didn’t a full-scale test just happen in Turkey?
Geomorphology, exhumation & tectonic deformation reflect crustal & subduction dynamics in Apennines
Cyclonic dust provides basis for formation of ice in cirrus clouds
Detailed measurement of a debris flow using 3D time-lapse lidar sensors
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/scientists-just-measured-a-debris-flow-in-unprecedented-detail
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL102373
“Houston, we have a problem” and it is called too much space junk
Dunkleosteus terrelli – Devonian armor-plated fish may have been shorter
Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum – Late Jurassic sauropod had 15-meter-long neck
Dinosaurs evolved hollow bones not just once but at least three times
- https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Hollow_bones_that_let_dinosaurs_become_giants_evolved_at_least_three_times_independently_999.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25067-8
Applying geophysical methods to characterize aquifer & model groundwater flow in Des Moines River alluvial aquifer in Iowa
- https://www.usgs.gov/publications/application-geophysical-methods-enhance-aquifer-characterization-and-groundwater-flow
- USGS Fact Sheet 2023-3006: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2023/3006/fs20233006.pdf
GEER report on the 2023 Kahramanmaras, Turkey, earthquake – preliminary virtual report
Layered lacustrine sediment sample extracted from subglacial Antarctica
- https://beta.nsf.gov/news/first-ever-layered-lake-sediment-sample-extracted
- “Lake at the bottom of the world” video: https://www.antarcticlakefilm.com/
Using beryllium-10 (Be-10) and carbon-14 (C-14) isotopes to reveal the history of the Argentine Andes
- https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rare_isotopes_help_unlock_mysteries_in_the_Argentine_Andes_999.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL100365
Elegantly modeling abrupt Pleistocene glacial transitions
- https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Elegantly_modeling_earths_abrupt_glacial_transitions_999.html
- https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0127715
A nesting colony of pterosaurs in Central Oregon? Mass of fossil guano may provide evidence
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/did-oregon-once-host-a-nesting-colony-of-pterosaurs/
- Paper: https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/let.56.1.3
Multiple small to moderate earthquakes in parts of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
- https://globalnews.ca/news/9556653/edmonton-alberta-earthquakes-march-2023/
- https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/206673/Significant-magnitude-50-earthquake-28-miles-southeast-of-Peace-River-Alberta-Canada.html
Paper: Paleo-biodegradation & hydrocarbon mixing in major hybrid petroleum reservoir in Western Canada
Retreating ice exposes fjords in parts of Antarctica
300 myo “blob” fossil was a sea anemone & not a jellyfish
- https://www.livescience.com/oops-this-300-million-year-old-blob-fossil-was-upside-down-its-not-a-jellyfish-after-all
- Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1479
Enforcing building codes will minimize earthquake impacts in Ghana
Lower mantle heat flow affects the magnetic field of Earth
Diapycnal circulation in the Atlantic Ocean controls mixing of heat & carbon
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-giant-underwater-affect-ocean-ability.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022AV000800
Presence of chromium-rich pyrope garnet may help reveal origins of diamonds
The deep geology of prose
Discovering geology & ecology of Maui
Water on Earth did not originate from melted meteorites
Past, present & future of USGS stream gages
Rare Earth minerals claim staked in Bitterroot National Forest of Montana
Seismic activity along the Walker Lane in Western Nevada
Vineyard Geological Identity links terroir to resulting wine – predicting wine quality
New data & 4 new Mineral Potential Maps in Western Australia
- https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/king/media-releases/unlocking-mineral-potential-australia
- Link: https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/147425
Perspective: Part 3 – theology and geology
- https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/calvin-smith/2023/03/13/marrying-theology-so-called-science-part-3/
- Part 2: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/calvin-smith/2023/03/06/marrying-theology-so-called-science-part-2/
- Part 1: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/calvin-smith/2023/02/27/marrying-theology-so-called-science-part-1/
Caltrans geologists tending to hundreds of landslides
Petroleum production affects natural gas seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel
Exploration plans for Manitou Gold Project in NW Ontario, Canada
NASA uses TOPEX/Poseidon data to calculate rate of sea level rise since 1993 – 3.6 inches in 30 years but projects a rise as much as 12 inches in next 20 years – something is wrong with their math
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-nasa-year-satellite-track-seas.html
- https://phys.org/news/2022-11-sea-exceed-coasts-nasa.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00537-z
Rethinking the Hydrologic Cycle & connection between groundwater & surface water
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-rethinking-global-mystery-ancient-groundwater.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00697-6
M7.1 earthquake in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
- https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/55862/20230316/magnitude-7-1-earthquake-shakes-kermadec-islands-in-new-zealand.htm
- https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/kermadec-and-new-zealand-earthquakes
Hail stones big as baseballs in Texas & Oklahoma
Explaining effects of a super-volcanic eruption
Human sabotage of Nord Stream pipeline in dumping ground for chemical warfare stirred up and dispersed toxic contaminants
The future incursion of the ocean into the African Rift
Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 20 March 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
IAEA investigating ten drums totaling 2.5 tons of natural uranium missing in Libya – found in a warehouse
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uh-2-5-tons-of-natural-uranium-are-suddenly-missing/ar-AA18IEGS
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/more-than-2-tons-of-missing-uranium-found-in-libya-after-sparking-nuclear-fears/ar-AA18IYwP
Cylinder containing radioactive Cesium-137 missing from power plant in Thailand
Teratogenic effects of dicyclomine (Bendectin) prescribed for nausea in up to 25% of pregnant women in 1960s & 1970s now linked to 3X higher risk of colon cancer in their children – also used to treat spasms of IBS
Self-inflicted wind & solar disaster in Europe – green delusions & investment “eco-bubble” about to burst?
And Farmers Almanac says summer 2023 won’t be as hot as last year nor the Dust Bowl summer
Deadly Cyclone Freddy continuing to hits southern Africa
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cyclone-freddy-africa-deaths-malawi-longest-lasting-recorded-tropical-cyclone/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/why-is-cyclone-freddy-record-breaking-storm-2023-03-14/
- https://www.npr.org/2023/03/14/1163380089/cyclone-freddy-malawi-mozambique-flooding-mudslides
- https://nypost.com/2023/02/18/intense-tropical-cyclone-freddy-sets-sights-on-eastern-africa/
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IR_0i13sZg
Concerns about PFAS content in artificial turf
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/10/phillies-ball-players-cancer-artifical-turf
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/30/boston-bans-artificial-turf-toxic-forever-chemicals-pfas
Record snowpack in the Sierra – recorded history is less than 150 years
New Jersey contemplating plastic-asphalt paving & electrically heated roadways & “smart mobility”
Failing levees in California result from age, drought, rodents and neglect
Just when the “global warming” alarmists that they had control, Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe freezes over reflecting that typical 30-year cycle of weather
Lessons should have been learned from the pandemic dogma, dictum, mandate, censorship & misinformation
TCE (trichloroethylene) used as an industrial degreasing chemical may cause Parkinson’s
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/common-industrial-chemical-fueling-spread-120046831.html
- Paper: https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-parkinsons-disease/jpd225047
- Fact Sheet: https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/fact-sheet-trichloroethylene-tce
USDA updated guidelines on how to access historical Soil Surveys
- https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-11/How%20to%20access%20historical%20soil%20surveys%20on%20the%20new%20NRCS%20website.pdf
- Archived Soil Surveys: https://archive.org/search?query=soil+survey
Solar farms lower property values by up to 5.8% in six states – MN, NC & NJ, along with CA, CT & MA
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032023/solar-property-values/
- Paper: https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/lspvp_journal_article.pdf
Encina Chemical (plastics) Recycling Plant in Pennsylvania blocked by zoning board – other questions remain
Some younger residents moving to Fukushima 12 years since nuclear accident lured by payments but decontamination effort has stalled – decommissioned by 2051?
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/11/national/fukushima-relocation/
- https://apnews.com/article/japan-fukushima-daiichi-radioactive-water-release-75becaaf68b7c3faf0121c459fdd25af
US EPA proposes first-ever national drinking water standard for 6 PFAS chemicals – does not address “regrettable substitutions” which replace one harmful chemical by toxic another
- https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-proposes-first-ever-national-standard-protect-communities
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-epa-chemicals-doesnt-regrettable-substitutions.html
Controversy continues over short segment of proposed 11-mile one-lane gravel road cutting through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in SW Alaska – would provide emergency access to Indigenous residents of King Cove
US District Court Judge orders halt to “Parole+ATD” policy that illegally releases illegals into the US
Toyah, Texas, received first “boil water” notice in June 2018 that is still in effect – civil lawsuit against TCEQ
Southern Nevada Water Authority wants power to shut off water use for single-family residential users that exceed half acre-foot of water per year
“Socialized healthcare” systems are failing – paying the price in long wait times, hidden data & excess deaths
Visualizing the global plastic waste trade – around 2% of plastic waste is traded & only a fraction is recycled
Visualizing oil & gas spills in the US over the past decade
Invasive Apple snails are provided abundant food source for the endangered Everglade snail kite
Bad idea for EU to copy US subsidies for “green technology”
Using free satellite data to monitor natural disasters & environmental changes
Graffiti in Mammoth Cave National Park reflects Branford history
Ever hopeful that they can find a strategy that leads to “sustainability” of freshwater supplies
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-world-resources-sustainable-strategies.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00378-6
Time to stop using the term “natural disaster” – Gilbert White would say yes, since “disasters are acts of man”
State of Ohio filed lawsuit against Norfolk Southern to pay all cleanup costs & damages related to toxic chemical spilled during train derailment in East Palestine
Only Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland & New Zealand met the WHO air quality guidelines in 2022
Compounding disasters in Santa Cruz mountains of California – rain deluge on top of wildfires
US public water systems may be local source of phosphorus pollution – used to reduce pipe corrosion
A to Z geography tour of sites across the US
“Race” cannot be defined and therefore should not have a place in science
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/national-academies-we-cant-define-race-so-stop-using-it-in-science/
- https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/03/researchers-need-to-rethink-and-justify-how-and-why-race-ethnicity-and-ancestry-labels-are-used-in-genetics-and-genomics-research-says-new-report
- Link to report download: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26902/using-population-descriptors-in-genetics-and-genomics-research-a-new
Compounding disasters in Turkey – flash flood in earthquake zone
- https://floodlist.com/asia/turkey-floods-sanliurfa-adiyaman-march-2023
- https://www.dawn.com/news/1742343
Net value of geothermal, wind, solar & solar+storage in Western US
- https://cleantechnica.com/2023/03/16/comparing-the-net-value-of-geothermal-wind-solar-solarstorage-in-the-western-united-states/
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148123001672?via%3Dihub
Interactive maps explore human relationship with built & natural environment in Vernier, France (in French)
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-affective-relationship-local-environment.html
- Interactive map in French: https://alicelandings.epfl.ch/plhebicite
Brewing battle amongst those responsible for TCE toxic contamination at Santa Maria Public Airport in California
“Close to sinful” to prevent doctors from permanently mutilating children
Developers again want to control the future of the Lake Taho Basin
WHO finally exhibiting awareness of the threats of antimicrobial resistant pathogens
Some still hoping to find evidence that pandemic started in animals
Another “end of the world” prediction that proved to be false – Tweet deleted by Greta
Is using sand as alternative to fossil fuels a good idea? – sand resources already being depleted or not?
- https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2023/03/can-sand-be-used-to-create-energy-on-demand
- Paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/2/825
- Looming crisis: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/sand-crisis-looms-world-population-surges-un-warns-2022-04-26/
- Sensationalism? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09q940zn
Glyphosate (Roundup®) linked to significantly increased risk of liver & metabolic diseases in children
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17032023/roundup-glyphosate-health-kids/
- Paper: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11721
Exhuming waterways that humans once buried may facilitate floodwaters
Call for banning vinyl chloride after East Palestine train derailment spill & conflagration
EPA official toured Barnett Shale in Texas to understand fracking concerns
Deadly flash floods in Italy
Long-lasting impacts on cognitive function from taking benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax, Ativan, …) RX for stress, anxiety, insomnia – these drugs are extremely addictive
Leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water revealed for Nuclear Power Plant in Monticello, Minnesota, in November 2022 – only 25% of pipeline spill contained so far
With a global population between 7.5 and 8 billion, it is hard to imagine that Earth has a “shortage” of people – carrying capacity of Earth for humans is about 1 billion
River deltas are under threat – subsidence due to human activities
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 20 March 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Escalating (inflationary) costs curbing offshore wind projects – seeking even more subsidies
- https://commonwealthmagazine.org/energy/avangrid-seeking-price-relief-on-offshore-wind-hydro-projects/
- https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/03/13/us-president-proposes-more-money-for-offshore-wind-activities-and-no-tax-subsidies-for-oil-and-gas-in-2024-budget/
Willow Oil Project approved but “greens” say it may never produce
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-alaska-oil-project-will-be-obsolete-before-it-s-finished/ar-AA18zV6h
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14032023/willow-conocophillips-arctic-oil-biden/
- https://theconversation.com/3-reasons-the-willow-arctic-oil-drilling-project-was-approved-its-the-latest-battle-in-a-long-fight-over-alaskas-north-slope-201935
Considering a draw bridge to replace current I-5 bridge across the Columbia River
Lawmakers worry that earthquakes in southern Kansas could trigger another Keystone pipeline spill
Extensive sargassum bloom moving toward Florida coast
Cybersecurity official calls for protection of US energy industry against attacks from China
Another house collapse at Cape Hatteras National Seashore
3 more cliff-top homes lost to erosion on Norfolk coastline in the UK
Melted plastic intertwined with rocks on Trinidade Island in Brazil in remote turtle refuge – human legacy
Salinity controls coastal architecture
Louisiana coastal restoration agency described as being on “solid ground” financially – for now
Comparing value of constructed tidal marshes to naturally occurring marshes in Louisiana
Another episode in the continuing saga of Oceano Dunes
Weighing pros and cons of offshore wind energy in North Carolina
Wire Wall designed to measure speed & volume of overtopping water on wave-by-wave basis
Nesting season has begun for Florida coastal birds
Final investment decision for Dover project subsea tieback in Gulf of Mexico
US Army COE awards $25.5M contract for construction of yet another levee on east bank of Mississippi River in St John the Baptist Parish of SE Louisiana – part of WSLP Hurricane & Storm Damage Risk Reduction system
Worst cargo container traffic in Southern California Ports since beginning of the Pandemic
"Groundwater has been used for domestic and irrigation needs from time immemorial. Yet its nature and occurrence have always possessed a certain mystery because water below the land surface is invisible and relatively inaccessible. The influence of this mystery lingers in some tenets that govern groundwater law." - T.N. Narasimhan -
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