Green Mud cure for $2 billion loss
...ent, or at least minimize, fluid from the drilling mud from seeping in and destabilising the wellbore. Dr Tan and his team of scientists from CSIRO Petroleum are now working at ARRC (the Australian Resources Research Centre), the South-East Asian Regions new centre of expertise for Petroleum, Mining an...Antarctic mud reveals ancient evidence of global climate change
... But new geologic evidence unearthed from deep-sea mud deposits strongly suggests that Antarctica experienced periods of extreme warming and cooling long before the invention of the automobile. "We`ve got a sedimentary record that reveals very significant changes in water temperature and ice melt duri...January media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...he authors suggest that the changes in the type of mud brought down the Nile and discharged into the Eastern Mediterranean may have had a significant effect on environmental conditions in the Levantine Basin. Widespread middle Holocene dune formation in the eastern upper peninsula of Michigan and the r...Munching microbes aid environment, oil industry
...icate the rapidly rotating pipe and drill bit. The mud carries most of the drilling waste and rock cuttings back up to the surface. Traditionally, the liquid component of the drilling mud, called the drilling fluid, has been water-based or petroleum-based. Since about 1990, however, the oil and gas extr...UMass study uses microbes to turn mud into electricity
... battery. The researchers added a layer of common mud to water in the jars, put one graphite electrode in the mud, another in overlying water. The resulting electrical current was strong enough to activate a lightbulb, or a simple computer. Even using a primitive electrode made from graphite, Lovley sai...Fighting the spread of sudden oak death
...er by moving plants around or by tracking infected mud from one place to another." Sudden oak death has recently been found on a variety of ornamental shrubs, like rhododendrons and viburnums, in California nurseries that had infected oaks on the premises. While it doesnt kill these plants, they could...Rare fossilized tube feet suggest functional shift through time
...rom large scavengers. Over time, the fine-grained mud was transformed into slate, which was later quarried for roofing shingles. As millions of bacteria fed upon the decaying flesh, their waste products combined with sulfur and iron dissolved in the seawater to form pyrite, said Alexander Glass, a docto...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...ingfilm (plastic wrap) prior to burial, preventing mud and silt from entering the open spiral of the fossil. The authors consider that this ancient clingfilm was a combination of microbial films and gelatinous marine snow, and think that this now-vanished organic matter carpeted large areas of seafloors ...Sea Grant news: Shipworms, ozone, hurricanes
... shield will be wrapped around the piling from the mud line to the high tide level. Lopez-Anido hopes his waterfront repair technology will be ready for deployment and possible commercialization in June, 2002. CONTACT: Roberto Lopez-Anido, Sea Grant Researcher, Professor of Civil Engineering, Universit...Marine researchers explore sediment highways
... the submarine canyons. At the end of the canyons, mud avalanches disperse into the deep sea. Scientists ...cumulated sediment runs off the slope as submarine mud avalanches into the deep-sea area. This happens at intervals of several decades to several centuries...Muddy Mayan mystery made clearer by researchers working in the bajos
...where the primary water source is little more than mud half of the year? The discoveries reveal why many early Maya centers were abandoned about 1,600 years after the civilization first appeared in the lowlands of Latin America. They also document why the Maya moved to new areas where they created elabo...Biodegradable plastics go to compost heaps, not landfills
...rimitive bricks and walls made of straw mixed with mud as examples. Netravali notes that most nondegradable plastic composites, made from petroleum-based or synthetic polyurethane, polyethylene and polypropylene, end up in landfills. Not much can be reused or recycled. Plant-based green composites, howe...Study shows fossil records remain stable in storm beds
...cal space or potentially dug up buried deposits of mud and dead organisms and mixed them with live or recent ones (time averaging) or simply washed them away to another area." Barbour Wood collected samples every 10 meters along a 130-meter-long outcrop, or transect, and at the same foot-thick horizon at...Microorganisms are cleaning up Boston Harbor, UMass study finds
...Microorganisms are cleaning up contaminants in the mud beneath Boston Harbor, and if humans prevent futur...r compounds," said Lovley, "so they collect in the mud at the bottom of the harbor." Previous research has shown that PAHs accumulate in fish and other aqu...GSA release 02-55: Dec. Geology & GSA Today media highlights
... freshwater habitats, particularly that of sand or mud substrates, compare to that of soft bottom habitats in the marine realm? In less than 100 million years from the late Neoproterozoic (600 million years ago) into the Cambrian, marine animal life appeared and burgeoned from a few animals with a limite...An unlikely new weapon against a deadly bacteria in oysters: A virus
...cterium), or by exposing an open wound to water or mud where the bacterium is present. Most exposed peopl...from oysters purchased from seafood markets and in mud collected from oyster beds in Florida's coastal waters. They grew the phages in the laboratory, then...UAF Institute of Arctic Biology researcher featured in Science
... is nothing in the physics of a shovelful of stony mud that can predict the emergence of an intricate pattern of interlaced, stone-bordered polygons covering many square meters," said Mann. "Self-organization represents a creative force whose existence we barely suspected just a decade ago." Mann is work...MIT research in Hawaii could impact state's management of fresh water
... fields, which involved a morning in the knee-deep mud in which the plants thrive. Their reward? A lesson in native hydrology from Kia and a feast that included French-fried taro chips....Dodging elephants, scorpions, mudslidesUF researcher tracks tigers
...ough python-inhabited rivers and streams, avoiding mud slides and dodging other hazards. Kawanishi said she sometimes wondered if she could continue. "When it is a matter of survival, everything all the intricate details of daily life, emotion and relationships boil down to a very thick essence," she s...Research shows little effect from Arctic offshore oil drilling
..." said Trefry. "We also studied the water, ice and mud to check for potential pollution."What Trefry's team and their colleagues from Battelle Ocean Sciences, Kinnetics Laboratories, Applied Marine Sciences and the University of Texas Marine Lab discovered through their analyses was a pleasant surprise."...