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Geologists search for Anthropocene 'golden spike'

Edit BBC News 30 Aug 2016
The notion that we have entered a new geological age is real and should be formally recognised, according to an international report ... Ten members of the 35-strong working group believe the best spike will probably be plutonium fallout from bomb tests in the 1950s, to be found in marine or lake sediments, ice layers or perhaps even speleothems (stalagmites and stalactites) ... These could all be relevant to the spike investigation ... ....

Disneyland underground

Edit Arkansas Online 30 Aug 2016
As a 12-year-old, Carlsbad Caverns seemed absolutely enormous and magically endless to me. My parents led the three of us kids through the dimly lit wonder hundreds of feet beneath the southeast New Mexican mountains when we were too young to appreciate what we were witnessing ... That meant that for five days admission was free ... It was the majesty and grandeur of these stalactite-covered ceilings that I found most fascinating....

MIKE MASTERSON: Disneyland underground

Edit Arkansas Online 30 Aug 2016
As a 12-year-old, Carlsbad Caverns seemed absolutely enormous and magically endless to me. My parents led the three of us kids through the dimly lit wonder hundreds of feet beneath the southeast New Mexican mountains when we were too young to appreciate what we were witnessing ... That meant that for five days admission was free ... It was the majesty and grandeur of these stalactite-covered ceilings that I found most fascinating....

A strong signal from a neighboring solar system has E.T. seekers speculating

Edit AOL 30 Aug 2016
SETI has been listening to the universe at 1420 MHz, the emission frequency of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe ... Now, SETI's honing in on a new blip in the radar ... At least one Neptune-sized planet orbits this star ... RELATED ... 1 ... OF ARIZON ... Roughly 8-9 km long, from 30 to 125 m deep, lots of chambers, siphons, corridors, small islands and roughly 40 lakes, stalactites>, stalagmites and other specifical Karst rock formations....

From dry cave to spooky ice cave Ningwu delivers

Edit China Daily 29 Aug 2016
Shanxi was fairly well known for its cave dwellers in the northern part of the province ... However, speaking of the ice age, Shanxi has something more curious to deliver－a real ice cave with a more than 3-million-year history, dating back to the fourth Ice Age with stalactites and stalagmites and walls made of pure ice. And it's freezing cold inside ... But there are marvelous shapes in the ice that give visitors a fairytale world effect....

The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age

Edit The Guardian 29 Aug 2016
Experts say humanity’s impact on Earth now so profound that the Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear bomb tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken. @dpcarrington ... Geological periods ... The scientists are focusing on sites where annual layers are formed and are investigating mud sediments off the coast of Santa Barbara and the Ernesto caves in northern Italy, where stalactites and stalagmites accrete annual rings ... ....

Beautifying Xagħra Square

Edit The Malta Independent 28 Aug 2016
In fact the project was a holistic one and as some new discoveries were made, this meant going back to the drawing board.  The main aim of this project was to improve the infrastructure in the centre of this popular town, Xagħra – one of the busiest on the island since it has eight restaurants, two banks, one petrol station and a ......

Age-old cave in northern Italy houses eerie formations

Edit Stars and Stripes 26 Aug 2016
There are few places in northern Italy — especially along the edges of the Alps, where varying patterns often collide — where one can count on the weather being relatively steady. Grotta Nuova di Villanova is one of them ... There’s no wind or sunlight and — though water is constantly dripping all over the place — no rain or snow ... Stalactites and stalagmites on display were there long before the first humans entered ...   ...   ... TIMES ... ....

This newly refurbished Eid destination will blow you away!

Edit Khaleej Times 25 Aug 2016
The long weekend is coming up and we have just the place for you to visit. It's close to the UAE and is the perfect destination for a short trip ... It's embellished with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites but it has only one drawback ... It will open on September 5 ... ....

Udall: Join Me in Wishing the National Park Service a Happy 100th Birthday (Tom Udall)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
From the castle-like stalactites and stalagmites of Carlsbad Caverns, to the pristine, snow white sands of White Sands National Monument, the massive, complex buildings of ancestral Pueblo people at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the centuries-old cliff dwellings at Bandelier and Gila Cliff Dwellings national monuments, and the abundant ......

Exploring Dandeli, land of the black panther

Edit The Jakarta Post 25 Aug 2016
The single-tusk male elephant stood a few feet from us and looked intoxicated as the fresh raindrops fell on his huge body. Our jeep driver wanted to drive away, but we were curious to observe the giant a little longer ... Forest fowl are hunted for their high medicinal value ... A 300-step climb and a 30-feet crawl through ancient limestone caves of Kavala opens into a chamber with huge a stalactite formation that looks like Shiva Ling ... *** ... ....

12 Months of National Parks -- No. 11, Great Basin: Miles of adventure fit in ...

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 24 Aug 2016
The gnarled branches of a bristlecone pine act out the story of the rings inside ... Time is swallowed in Great Basin National Park. Centuries are digested and transformed into stalactites dripping off marble, a glacier in its death throes after tens of thousands of years, images of a nebula in the dark Nevada sky, a tree that fits a human life into 2 inches o... ....

10 of the least-visited US national parks

Edit The Guardian 24 Aug 2016
Katmai national park, Alaska. Katmai, in southern Alaska, is for the bears. it’s home to the world’s largest population of Alaskan brown bears, a subspecies of the grizzly ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Key sights are Wheeler Peak, at 3,982 metres the second-tallest mountain in Nevada, and the Lehman caves, a complex of deep caverns known for their beautiful flowstone formations of stalactites, stalagmites, and helictites ... Twitter ... Twitter ... ....
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