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Article: June 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights.
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- July 5, 2009
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GEOLOGY includes details on the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake; a natural gas-hydrate system offshore of Korea; findings that abiogenic methane emissions may be more prevalent than originally thought; two studies on the nature of mud; and three fossil studies, one finding evidence for lush forests and rich animal life in the Eocene High Arctic, and two concentrating on bones in Montana, Madagascar, and Sharktooth Hill, California. GSA TODAY examines Greenland's contribution to sea-level change.
Bedload transport of mud by floccule ripples -- Direct observation of ripple migration processes and their implications Juergen Schieber and John B. Southard, Dept. of ...