The old Allco gang band together Nov 20, 2009
The explorer Captain Charles Sturt led two expeditions of the interior in the 1800s to try to discover the inland sea that was believed to exist in the middle of the continent. The good news is that Sturt survived despite finding no large body of water. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Lake Superior Getting Windier, Riskier as Waters Warm, Ice Cover Recedes Nov 17, 2009
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Lake Superior, the worlds largest body of fresh water, is getting windier as the inland sea warms, increasing the danger to shipping and sailing interests. Winds above the lake, which straddles the U.S.-Canada border, have increased 5 percent a year since 1985, according to a study by Ankur Desai, an atmospheric and oceanic sciences researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
The Cougar Lounge - Special Nog Edition Nov 9, 2009
Meanwhile, according to the Lounge Scientists [who still have plenty of Halloween booty remaining in their pillow cases], a new inland sea or ocean could be forming in Africa inside Ethiopia where a volcano erupted several years ago and has been gradually creating a rift in the Earth's crust similar to the spreading rifts that occur deep in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This particular Ethiopian rift took only days to form after volcano erupted and may eventually spread to create a Red... (Washington State Sports -- Rivals.com)
Dinosaurs roar again on outback tourist trail Nov 9, 2009
Home to an inland sea 100 million years ago, the vast floodplains left behind as the waters receded came to accumulate dinosaur bones. Fragments were found there as early as the 1920s, but it is only this decade that momentous discoveries of uniquely Australian species of dinosaur have been made. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
From Ecological Soviet-Era Ruin, a Sea Is Reborn Oct 26, 2009
With their passion for planned economics and giant, nature-reversing projects, the communists diverted the rivers that fed the inland sea and used them to irrigate vast cotton fields. The result: The Aral shrank by 90 percent to a string of isolated stretches of water. (ABC News -- Wire)
Eutrophication Affects Diversity Of Algae Oct 20, 2009
The Baltic, an inland sea. (July 24, 2008) After completing one of the longest running experiments ever done on a lake, researchers contend that nitrogen control, in which the European Union and many other jurisdictions around the world are. (Science Daily)
'River' delivers stormy weather Oct 17, 2009
00004000 Much of the Central Valley became an inland sea. The state Capitol was moved to San Francisco temporarily until Sacramento recovered. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Largest Dinosaur Footprints Ever Found Oct 10, 2009
19, 2005) The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a. (May 6, 2007) The largest bones of any dinosaur known in Australia went on display at the Queensland Museum for the first time. (Science Daily)
Water canal sparks skepticism, lawsuits in Calif. Oct 4, 2009
The canal "would transform the delta from a freshwater estuary and a thriving farming community into a salty polluted inland sea," charges Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, campaign director at Restore the Delta, a nonprofit community group that has vocally opposed the canal at community meetings and legislative hearings. Rich Pedroncelli. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
* World News Quick Take Oct 2, 2009
The court ruled that the impact would have been too grave on picturesque Tomonoura port X which is lined with traditional Japanese houses and faces the Seto Inland Sea X located in western Hiroshima Prefecture. It was the first time a court had halted a public works project in order to preserve a landscape, public broadcaster NHK said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Australia discovers new dinosaur Aug 28, 2009
They were found near the town of Eromanga, in a fossil-rich area that was once covered by a vast inland sea. Palaeontologists say the find confirms Australia's importance as a centre for dinosaur discovery. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
The birthday trip to call ‘crazy’ Aug 16, 2009
The birthday trip to call crazy - The Boston Globe. Local Search Site Search. (Boston Globe)
On this earth -- peace Aug 2, 2009
I opted instead for a day trip to Miyajima, an island considered one of the three most scenic spots in Japan, just a 30-minute boat ride from Hiroshima in the Seto Inland Sea ... Miyajima Scenic island in Seto Inland Sea 011-81-82-944-2011. (Boston Globe)
Mile after mile of big fat nothing Jul 30, 2009
And if by chance youre thinking of popping off to see Lake Eyre, the occasional remnant of our great inland sea, reputedly wettish for the first time in a yonks and brimming nay, teeming with aquatic life, my advice is, dont. All those YouTube videos showing a gazillion breeding events on the lake, involving whirring flocks of pelicans, egrets, galahs and Major Mitchells. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Russia and Iran join hands Jul 29, 2009
Such criticisms must be tempered by a cold calculation of Russia's limits of influence on the other Caspian states which have carved up the inland sea among themselves. Another question raised by the maneuvers pertains to the Persian Gulf, considered a de facto "American lake", where France has entered the scene via a deal with the United Arab Emirates for a permanent military base. (Asia Times Online)
On Malta, discover ancient salt pans and the stuff of legends Jul 26, 2009
Others include a dramatic, massive natural arch, known as the Azure Window, an inland sea that is connected to the Mediterranean by a natural passage, and a vast network of caves. John Schembri, head of geography at the University of Malta, later told me that these are the result of Gozo s unique ground surface, a combination of limestone above blue clay, riddled with fault lines, and the effects of erosion. (Boston Globe)
Torrential rains: six dead in Japan downpours Jul 22, 2009
One other person was killed in a landslide and another by a swollen river in Hofu, a city of 120,000 by the scenic Inland Sea, the police official said. In total seven people were missing in Hofu and two more in other cities in the same prefecture. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Turkmenistan to create desert sea Jul 17, 2009
Turkmenistan has launched the latest stage of a plan to channel water across thousands of kilometres of desert to create a vast inland sea. The lake will be filled with drainage water from the country's cotton fields. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Explore the Red Centre Jul 16, 2009
Five hundred million years ago, the entire area was covered by an inland sea. Over many centuries, a spectacular environment of inland lakes and tropical woodlands evolved. (iAfrica.com)
Bosses take note of Bazza and Roy Jul 11, 2009
Preliminary exploration in search of an inland sea or the lost trail of Ludwig Leichhardt was done last year during an extensive couch-based consultation by psychologist Grant Brecht, who told Hall - we're not talking out of turn here and nor is Brecht - that he's a nutcase. Or so said Hall. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
View from the top: Reservation Divide's Ch-paa-qn Peak offers panoramic scenery Jul 11, 2009
It's hard not to think of Glacial Lake Missoula when you're up there, the mountains strung out like a bracelet of purple islands in a vast inland sea. It's also hard not to think about the incessant buzz of flying insects, mostly flies, that seem drawn to our humanness. (Missoulian, MT)
A sanctuary threatened Jul 4, 2009
Such is the scale of the place that the first European settlers who arrived here thought they had discovered an enormous inland sea. As well as around 700 species of birds, there are some 50 different types of reptiles and hundreds of species of fish including the piranha. (BBC News -- Science)
Scientists Flesh Out Fossilized Tissues from Mummified Dinosaur Jul 1, 2009
The stone at Hell Creek dates back to the end of the age of roughly 65 million years ago and was laid down by rivers that flowed eastward through swamps to an inland sea that once ran from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The dinosaur, approximately 7. (Scientific American)
Fossil Bone Bed Helps Reconstruct Life Along California's Ancient Coastline Jun 16, 2009
When the bone bed formed between 15,900,000 and 15,200,000 years ago, the climate was warming, sea level was at a peak, California's Central Valley was an inland sea dubbed the Temblor Sea and the emerging Sierra Nevada was shoreline. By closely studying the geology of the Sharktooth Hill area, the paleontologists determined that it was part of an underwater shelf in a large embayment, directly opposite a wide opening to the sea. (Science Daily)
* Australians begin clean-up as floods recede May 25, 2009
Thousands of homeowners remained isolated in Australias flood-hit northeast yesterday, where authorities said days of torrential rain had created a vast inland sea ... Its an inland sea, and you see the [animal] stocks that are isolated and the towns that are isolated and you wonder where its all going to go, he told reporters. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Many stranded by Australia floods May 25, 2009
The state premier Nathan Rees has described the region as an "inland sea". Entire communities have been cut off, prompting rescue workers to deliver emergency rations to thousands of people trapped in their homes. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Sewage Treatment In The East May Be Enough To Reduce Baltic Algal Blooms May 13, 2009
Algal blooms have occurred in the Baltic throughout the life of this inland sea, but the problem of eutrophication has primarily received attention in the 1960s and 1970s and later, says Andreas Bryhn ... The Baltic, an inland sea. (Science Daily)
Canasia Receives Final Approval on 113,866 Acres of Coal Claims Bordering "18 Meter" Coal Property Apr 16, 2009
The Upper Mannville was deposited primarily as continental to transitional marine sediments during the withdrawal of the inland sea. This again allowed for great amounts of peat accumulation leading to numerous coal beds being deposited, with individual beds reaching 4. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
The King of California Apr 12, 2009
He was the biggest farmer in America and the last of California's great land barons, a man who had drained an inland sea and made the rivers run backward as he carved out the richest cotton patch in the world. How his family had brought their Southern plantation to a corner of the West in the 1920s was a story of astonishing vision and will and the flouting of nature, not to mention a parade of hubris. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Thursday's TV: The First Mad Man Apr 8, 2009
How were the pyramids and temples built when the nearest rock supply is 40 kilometres away on the other side of a vast inland sea. Local legend says the builders were a race of giants, while New Age fantasists insist only visitors from outer space could have been responsible. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Montana fossil man Apr 6, 2009
He has, and what has made him a well-known figure in paleontological circles, is an enormous collection of ammonite fossils, the remnants of marine creatures that thrived in the shallow inland sea that once covered Montana ... But mostly what he has, and what has made him a well-known figure in paleontological circles, is an enormous collection of ammonite fossils, the remnants of marine creatures that thrived in the shallow inland sea that once covered Montana. (Montana Standard, MT)
Geology gems Apr 5, 2009
But mostly what he has, and what has made him a well-known figure in paleontological circles, is an enormous collection of ammonite fossils, the remnants of marine creatures that thrived in the shallow inland sea that once covered Montana. In the Eichhorn family, he s hardly alone. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Poison Gas May Produce Clean Energy Mar 25, 2009
The Black Sea, an isolated inland sea in , has been devoid of life except for a species of hardy "extremophile" bacteria for decades due to pollution carried by rivers. SHARE RELATED. (National Geographic)
* An ode to the fall of Dubai Mar 24, 2009
Here was another that rose on the shore of an inland sea, fueled by the cult of hypermobility. With the implosion of the motor industry it has gone to seed. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Dinosaur Lost World Found in Texas City Mar 19, 2009
But the remains hark back to a time when much of Texas was underwater, covered by an enormous inland sea that bisected North America and joined the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean. At the time, Arlington would have been on a low-lying coastal plain. (National Geographic)
Black Sea Pollution Could Be Harnessed As Renewable Future Energy Source Mar 18, 2009
As such, the rare forms of life that live in the depths of the inland sea, so-called extremophile bacteria, survive by metabolising sulfate in the water. The sulfate fulfils a similar biochemical role to oxygen in respiration for these microbes allowing them to release the energy they need to live and grow from the nutrients they absorb from the water. (Science Daily)
Downtime destinations Mar 14, 2009
Millions of years ago, the Thessaly plain in which Meteora is situated, was an inland sea. When the water flowed out, it left behind a fertile valley now cultivated with wheat and cotton and the Rocky Forest of Greece. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
New plan to build a peripheral canal will affect us here in Lodi Feb 25, 2009
Diverting Sacramento River water will turn the Delta into a brackish inland sea. The hydrology of the whole region will change, and then Lodi will have to worry about saltwater intrusion into its drinking water. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Rising floods spread to second Australian state Feb 17, 2009
Seven people have died, hundreds are homeless and tens of thousands of livestock are starving as vast areas of the state resemble an inland sea. With floods affecting 62 percent of the state, the state government said Tuesday that damage would exceed 210 million Australian dollars ($136 million). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Ancient Geologic Escape Hatches Mistaken For Tube Worms Feb 17, 2009
16, 2009) Tubeworms have been around for millions of years and the fossil record is rich with their distinctive imprints. But a discovery made by U of C scientists found that what previous researchers had labeled as tubeworms in a formation near Denver, Colorado, are actually 70 million-year-old escape hatches for methane. (Science Daily)
Bolivia has lithium, and the president intends to make world pay for it Feb 7, 2009
With governments, including the Obama administration, seeking to increase fuel efficiency and reduce their dependence on imported oil, private companies are focusing their attention on this desolate corner of the Andes, where Quechua-speaking Indians subsist on the remains of an ancient inland sea by bartering the salt they carry out on llama caravans. The U.S. Geological Survey says 5. (International Herald Tribune)
