Archive for September 3rd, 2012

Listening To Rocks Helps Researchers Better Understand Earthquakes

When Apollo punished King Midas by giving him donkey ears, only the king and his barber knew. Unable to keep a secret, the barber dug a hole, whispered into it, “King Midas has donkey ears,” and filled the hole. But plants sprouted from the hole, and with each passing breeze, shared the king’s secret. Earth, […]

Paleozoic ‘Sediment Curve’ Provides New Tool For Tracking Sea-Floor Sediment Movements

As the world looks for more energy, the oil industry will need more refined tools for discoveries in places where searches have never before taken place, geologists say. One such tool is a new sediment curve (which shows where sediment-on-the-move is deposited), derived from sediments of the Paleozoic Era 542 to 251 million years ago, […]