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  • n  the phenomena associated with volcanic activity

  • Looking at the moon while a graduate student at Princeton, he was convinced that it had been pockmarked not by explosive volcanism, as many geologists then thought, but by asteroid .
  • Spheres like these can be formed either by volcanism or by minerals accreting under water, but the way the blueberries are mixed randomly through the rock not layered on top .
  • Boslough describes himself as "totally agnostic" on the existence of antipodal volcanism.
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  • Opportunistic bivalves, high-flying diatoms, mirror-like faults, and petit-spot volcanism
    ( Geological Society of America ) New Geology studies posted online ahead of print on Sept. 6, 2013, cover faulting and strain; mineralogy; tsunamigenic earthquakes; the formation of banded iron formations by microbial processes; stalagmites in Vanuatu; garnets; the world's largest saltpan complex and one of the world's largest inland deltas; estuaries beneath ice sheets; volcanism; erosion ...
    Sept. 10, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Quotes

  • Gerta Keller in FOXNews
    The asteroid-impact "theory is now facing perhaps it's most serious challenge from the Deccan volcanism and perhaps the Chicxulub impact itself," Keller said Monday during a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical...
  • David J. Stevenson in CNN International
    The presence of crystalline ice is surprising,said Stevenson, who was not involved in the new study but wrote a review of it for the journal. "Yet it might be that we are seeing evidence for 'planetary' processes such as volcanism within...

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