Homo floresiensis, nicknamed "Hobbits" after their short stature, once roamed Indonesia thousands of years ago. Now, researchers have identified fossils belonging to an even older and smaller group ...

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(a) Map of the Cascadia subduction zone offshore Oregon with seismic line 15 from cruise RR1718 that was used in this study. Red stars represent locations of Site 174 from DSDP Leg 18 (Shipboard ...

GeoMapApp is an earth science exploration and visualization application that is continually being expanded as part of the Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ...

ABSTRACT: The area near the Cape Mendocino earthquake of 1992, magnitude 6.9, was the site of many moderate to large shocks during the previous decades. It and the Honeydew event of 1991, however, are ...

The Hikurangi Margin, located off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, is where the Pacific tectonic plate dives underneath the Australian tectonic plate, in what scientists call a ...

In this data report we present new multibeam bathymetric data for Le Gouic Seamount, mapping its full extent for the first time. The data were obtained during a transit of R/V METEOR cruise M146 in ...

WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico has felt hundreds of aftershocks after the Jan. 7 magnitude 6.4 earthquake. And throughout history, earthquakes are not an unheard-of occurrence on the island. This is because ...

Olive et al (Reports, 16 October 2015, p. 310) and Goff (Technical Comment, 4 September 2015, p. 1065) raise important concerns with respect to recent findings of Milankovitch cycles in seafloor ...

Although bacteria are commonly associated with causing illness, many are actually beneficial to the organism they live in or on. The phenomenon of one species helping another to survive is known as ...