The devastating tsunami that struck Japan’s Tohoku region in March 2011 was touched off by a submarine earthquake far more massive than anything geologists had expected in that zone. Now, a team of scientists including McGill University geologist Christie Rowe, has published a set of studies in the journal Science that shed light on what […]
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Deep-Sea Study Reveals Cause of 2011 Tsunami: Unusually Thin, Slippery Geological Fault Found
December 7th, 2013 
Riffin New Way To Monitor Faults May Help Predict Earthquakes
December 6th, 2013 riffin Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found a way to monitor the strength of geologic faults deep in the Earth. This finding could prove to be a boon for earthquake prediction by pinpointing those faults that are likely to fail and produce earthquakes. Until now, scientists had no method for detecting changes in fault strength, […]
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No Comments »Niassodon mfumukasi fossil Reveals New Data On Ancient Mammal Relatives
December 5th, 2013 Riffin In the remote province of Niassa, Mozambique, a new species and genus of fossil vertebrate was found. The species is a distant relative of living mammals and is approximately 256 million years old. This new species belongs to a group of animals called synapsids. Synapsida includes a number of extinct lineages that dominated the communities […]
What Drives Aftershocks?
December 3rd, 2013 Riffin On 27 February 2010 an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 struck South-Central Chile near the town of Maule. The main shock displaced the subduction interface by up to 16 meters. Like usually after strong earthquakes a series of aftershocks occurred in the region with decreasing size over the next months. A surprising result came from an […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Western Ghats: life line of india need world attention for protection
December 2nd, 2013 Riffin The Western Ghats or the Sahyādri constitute a mountain range along the western side of India. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the eight “hottest hotspots” of biological diversity in the world. It is sometimes called the Great Escarpment of India. The range runs north to south along the western […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »‘Cascade of events’ caused sudden explosion of animal life
December 1st, 2013 Riffin The explosion of animal life on Earth around 520 million years ago was the result of a combination of interlinked factors rather than a single underlying cause, according to a new study. Dozens of individual theories have been put forward over the past few decades for this rapid diversification of animal species in the early […]
Colossal New Predatory Dino Terrorized Early Tyrannosaurs
November 30th, 2013 Riffin A new species of carnivorous dinosaur — one of the three largest ever discovered in North America — lived alongside and competed with small-bodied tyrannosaurs 98 million years ago. This newly discovered species, Siats meekerorum, (pronounced see-atch) was the apex predator of its time, and kept tyrannosaurs from assuming top predator roles for millions of […]
Ancient Minerals: Which Gave Rise to Life?
November 29th, 2013 Riffin Life originated as a result of natural processes that exploited early Earth’s raw materials. Scientific models of life’s origins almost always look to minerals for such essential tasks as the synthesis of life’s molecular building blocks or the supply of metabolic energy. But this assumes that the mineral species found on Earth today are much […]
Intact baby dinosaur found in Canada
November 28th, 2013 Riffin The tiny, intact skeleton of a baby rhinoceroslike dinosaur has been unearthed in Canada. The toddler was just 3 years old and 5 feet (1.5 meters) long when it wandered into a river near Alberta, Canada, and drowned about 70 million years ago. The beast was so well-preserved that some of its skin left impressions […]
Iron Preserves, Hides Ancient Tissues in Fossilized Remains
November 27th, 2013 Riffin New research from North Carolina State University shows that iron may play a role in preserving ancient tissues within dinosaur fossils, but also may hide them from detection. The finding could open the door to the recovery of more ancient tissues from within fossils. Mary Schweitzer, an NC State paleontologist with a joint appointment at […]
