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The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska
(Springer Nature, 2018-09-06)Glacial retreat in recent decades has exposed unstable slopes and allowed deep water to extend beneath some of those slopes. Slope failure at the terminus of Tyndall Glacier on 17 October 2015 sent 180 million tons of rock ... -
A unifying model for Neoproterozoic–Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression
(Nature, 2014-12-17)Soft-tissue fossils capture exquisite biological detail and provide our clearest views onto the rise of animals across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. The processes contributing to fossilization of soft tissues, however, ... -
A-site doping-induced renormalization of structural transformations in the PbSc0.5Nb0.5O3 relaxor ferroelectric under high pressure
(American Physical Society, 2010-05-01)The effect of A-site incorporated Ba2+ and Bi3+ on the pressure-driven structural transformations in Pb-based perovskite-type relaxor ferroelectrics has been studied with in situ x-ray diffraction and Raman scattering of ... -
Adsorption of Extracellular Polymeric Substances Derived from S. cerevisiae to Ceria Nanoparticles and the Effects on Their Colloidal Stability
(MDPI, 2017-07-11)In order to understand the adsorption preferences of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) components derived from fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae on sparingly soluble CeO2 nanoparticles (CeNPs), ... -
Advective Heat Transport and the Salt Chimney Effect: A Numerical Analysis
(Hindawi, 2018-07-09)We conducted numerical simulations of coupled fluid and heat transport in an offshore, buried salt diapir environment to determine the effects of advective heat transport and its relation to the so-called “salt chimney ... -
Analysis of a conductive heat flow profile in the Ecuador Fracture Zone
(2017-06)We report 18 new conductive heat flow measurements collected from a sediment pond located in the inactive part of the Ecuador Fracture Zone in the Panama Basin. The data were collected along an east-west transect coincident ... -
Application of the Linkam TS1400XY heating stage to melt inclusion studies
(De Gruyter, 2012-05-13)Melt inclusions (MI) trapped in igneous phenocrysts provide one of the best tools available for characterizing magmatic processes. Some MI experience post-entrapment modifications, including crystallization of material on ... -
Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian.
(2015-11-26)Morphology-based phylogenetic analyses support the monophyly of the Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Priapulida) and Nematoida (Nematoda, Nematomorpha), together constituting the monophyletic Cycloneuralia that is ... -
The axial skeleton of Poposaurus langstoni (Pseudosuchia: Poposauroidea) and its implications for accessory intervertebral articulation evolution in pseudosuchian archosaurs
(PeerJ, 2018-02-14)Dinosaurs and their close relatives grew to sizes larger than any other terrestrial animal in the history of life on Earth, and many enormous dinosaurs (e.g., Diplodocus, Spinosaurus, Tyrannosaurus) have accessory ... -
Can NanoSIMS probe quantitatively the geochemical composition of ancient organic-walled microfossils? A case study from the early Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation
(2018-07)Assessing the biogenicity of Precambrian putative remnants of life requires solid criteria. Among possible criteria, searching for evidence of pristine biological signatures and identifying various biological organic matter ... -
Cell adhesion of Shewanella oneidensis to iron oxide minerals: Effect of different single crystal faces
(American Institute of Physics, 2005-12-30)The results of experiments designed to test the hypothesis that near-surface molecular structure of iron oxide minerals influences adhesion of dissimilatory iron reducing bacteria are presented. These experiments involved ... -
Characteristics of magma-driven hydrothermal systems at oceanic spreading centers
(American Geophysical Union, 2013-06)We use one- and two-limb single-pass models to de termine vent field characteristics such as mass flow rate Q, bulk permeability in the discharge zone k(d), thickness of the conductive boundary layer at the base of the ... -
Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils
(NAS, 2015-10-13)In living organisms, color patterns, behavior, and ecology are closely linked. Thus, detection of fossil pigments may permit inferences about important aspects of ancient animal ecology and evolution. Melanin-bearing ... -
Climate model boundary conditions for four Cretaceous time slices
(Copernicus Publications, 2007)General circulation models (GCMs) are useful tools for investigating the characteristics and dynamics of past climates. Understanding of past climates contributes significantly to our overall understanding of Earth's climate ... -
Comparison between beryllium and diamond-backing plates in diamond-anvil cells: Application to single-crystal x-ray diffraction high-pressure data
(AIP Publishing, 2011-05)A direct comparison between two complete intensity datasets, collected on the same sample loaded in two identical diamond-anvil pressure cells equipped, respectively, with beryllium and diamond-backing plates was performed. ...
