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Ancient snow patches melting at record speed
2015-02-06 05:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Norway is dotted with small glaciers and permanent snow patches that contain all sorts of archaeological treasures, from ancient shoes to 5000-year-old arrowheads. But climate change has turned up the temperature on these snowfields and they are vanishing at an astonishing rate. They actually shouldn't be found in Norway. Summers are too hot and winters too dry for glaciers or perennial snow patches to form here. Yet, the Kringsollfonna ice patch in S¸r-Tr¸ndelag county and the Storbreen glacier...
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Climate Change Predications Confirmed by Ancient Warming Event
2015-02-05 22:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Evidence of this previous warm period came from an analysis of ancient plankton fossils drilled from the ocean floor. By studying the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change during a warmer period in Earth's history, the scientists have been able to estimate how the climate will respond to rising CO2 levels - a parameter known as "climate sensitivity." The findings, published in the journal Nature, are in line with future predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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Ancient water distribution system found under Union Pacific Railroad tracks
2015-01-24 06:22:20| Railroads - Topix.net
Archaeologists in San Gabriel have uncovered an important piece of Southern California's history: the foundation to an ancient water distribution system that has laid buried a few feet beneath the surface of the old Union Pacific Railroad tracks for more than century. Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority's lead archaeologist John Dietler said the feature, a series of stone-lined canals and reservoirs, is the missing piece of an important story behind the success of the San Gabriel Mission and ultimately, the springboard to the growth of Los Angeles.
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Peering Inside an Ancient Papyrus: Photos
2015-01-21 21:19:39| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Using a powerful X-ray procedure, researchers led by Vito Mocella, a physicist from the National Research Council's Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems in Naples, have for the first time been able to read letters hidden inside two carbonized papyri without unrolling them. The papyrus scroll was reduced to lumps of coal by the 750-degree Fahrenheit cloud that wrapped the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It was excavated 260 years ago from the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, a magnificent seafront estate thought to be owned by Lucius Calpurnius Piso, Julius Caesar's father-in-law.
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Scientists read ancient scroll
2015-01-21 06:40:12| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Scientists have succeeded in reading parts of an ancient scroll that was buried in a volcanic eruption almost 2,000 years ago, holding out the promise that the world's oldest surviving library may one day reveal all of its secrets. The scroll is among hundreds retrieved from the remains of a lavish villa at Herculaneum, which along with Pompeii was one of several Roman towns that were destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. Some of the texts from what is called the Villa of the Papyri have been deciphered since they were discovered in the 1750s.
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