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How slick water and black shale in fracking mix to supply radioactive waste

Research explains how radioactive radium transfers to wastewater within the widely-used methodology to extract oil and fuel. Geology News — ScienceDaily

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Scientists use satellites to measure very important underground water sources

With the hope of offering water useful resource managers with higher instruments to assist hold aquifers wholesome, a staff of scientists are utilizing the most recent area expertise to look beneath Earth’s floor to measure this treasured pure useful resource. … Continue reading

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Higher mannequin of water below excessive circumstances may help understanding of Earth’s mantle

A staff of scientists ran quantum simulations to develop a brand new mannequin of the conduct of water at extraordinarily excessive temperatures and pressures. The computational measurements ought to assist scientists perceive water’s position within the make-up of the mantle … Continue reading

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Groundwater pumping can enhance arsenic ranges in irrigation and ingesting water

Pumping an aquifer to the final drop squeezes out greater than water. A brand new research finds it will probably additionally unlock harmful arsenic from buried clays — and divulges how sinking land can present an early warning and measure … Continue reading

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Water appeared whereas Earth was nonetheless rising

Cosmo-chemists have carried out the most important examine so far of oxygen isotopes in lunar rocks, and located a small however measurable distinction within the make-up of the moon and Earth. The analysis proposes that Earth acquired nearly all of … Continue reading

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Water stress a vital issue for mega-earthquakes

Scientists suggest a mechanism that explains how the most important earthquake ever occurred and the way greater than 50 years later one other massive earthquake in the identical area launched among the stress that had constructed up within the depth. … Continue reading

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Agate: a mineral that develops with age, water and moganite

Agate is banded or variegated chalcedony and this distinctive look permits a prepared identification from any supply. Many agate thick sections from fundamental igneous hosts are paying homage to a collection of distorted onion-like rings with the preliminary bands carefully … Continue reading

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Distinctive diamond impurities point out water deep in Earth’s mantle

Scientists have found the primary direct proof that fluid water pockets could exist so far as 500 miles deep into the Earth’s mantle. Geology News — ScienceDaily

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Water cooling for the Earth’s crust

How deep can seawater penetrate through cracks and fissures into the seafloor? By applying a new analysis method, an international team of researchers has now discovered that the water can penetrate to depths of more than 10 kilometers below the … Continue reading

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When water met iron deep inside the Earth, did it create conditions for life?

Reservoirs of oxygen-rich iron between the Earth’s core and mantle could have played a major role in Earth’s history, including the breakup of supercontinents, drastic changes in Earth’s atmospheric makeup, and the creation of life, according to recent research. Strange … Continue reading

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