Category: Planetary Geology

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Glacier song – Science Codex

Glacier songScience CodexIn this study published in Geology on 24 Oct. 2014, David S. Heeszel and colleagues use seismic recordings collected near Lake Gornersee in the Swiss Alps to look for signs of water moving through fractures near the glacier…

Glacier song – Science Codex

Glacier songScience CodexStromatolites, geological structures formed as material is trapped by sticky microbial biofilms, are indicative of some of the earliest life on Earth: photosynthetic microbes that use light to extract energy from water, releasing oxygen as a by-product …