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Moon mysteries: Our solitary satellite has already told us a lot about life on Earth - and it has lots more to say.(The Home Forum)
The Christian Science Monitor
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June 18, 2002
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Byline: Sharon J. Huntington
It was the moon that helped to tell us why dinosaurs disappeared. Scientists studied how impacts might have caused the craters on the moon. Their research helped others theorize how a huge rock crashing into the Earth might have wiped out many forms of life here, including the dinosaurs.
Paul Spudis is a staff scientist and deputy director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. He says he feels we still have a lot to learn from the moon.
"Exploring space means opening up thought and imagination," Mr. Spudis ...
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Rhyolite, queen of the desert. (gold mining town in Amargosa Desert, Nevada)(Western Wanderings)
Magazine article from: Sunset
; ...They built to last," Claudia said. "Rhyolite was going to be the queen city of the...dreamed of becoming queen cities. But Rhyolite gave it a better go than most. The name...confidence in every breast." Thus crowed the Rhyolite Herald in 1905, as the Bull-frog and...
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U-Pb zircon (SHRIMP) ages for the Lebombo rhyolites, South Africa: refining the duration of Karoo volcanism
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...interbedded rhyolites yield ages...Jozini Formation rhyolite yields an age...A further rhyolite crops out further...voluminous Lebombo rhyolites, which are...interbedded with rare rhyolite lava flows...majority of the rhyolites are porphyritic...
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Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...for Wegel Tena rhyolite sequences...emplacement of the rhyolites. Lima Limo...of basalt and rhyolite provinciality suggests that the rhyolites are related...of basalt and rhyolite provinciality suggests that the rhyolites were derived...
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Nevada's elegant ghost: Rhyolite.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Sunset
; ...Las Vegas-Tonopah Railroad Depot in Rhyolite, Nevada, swept across a mining town...numerous hotels that had blossomed since Rhyolite's 1904 gold strike. But by the time the depot opened in 1908, Rhyolite was already dying, as mining economics...
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Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
; ...interpreted to be slab melts. Rhyolites have greater Si[O.sub...are comparable to FI type rhyolites of other Archean greenstone...Nb-enriched basalt, and rhyolites in the Gadwal terrane signifies...volcaniques d'adakite et de rhyolite ayant differentes caracteristiques...
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Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire
; ...COLUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - March 19, 2007) - Rhyolite Resources Ltd. ("Rhyolite") (TSX VENTURE:RYE) is pleased to announce...300 metres south of the Super Cub Kill zone. Rhyolite's re-examination of prior operator's drill...
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Volcanic rocks in the Devonian Solund Basin, Western Norway: Large landslides of Silurian (439 Ma) rhyolites
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...crystallization of the rhyolite, and are thus too old...sup 2^ landslide of rhyolite, granite, gabbro and...Norway, landslides The rhyolites in the Devonian Solund...Precise dating of the rhyolite combined with field...relative age of the rhyolites versus the age of the...
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Business Wire
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Rhyolite Updates Activities
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire
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Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...Pyroclastics form a c. 10 km^sup 3^ rhyolite deposit erupted at c. 50 ka from the...produced a Ca-, Fe- and Mg-enriched rhyolite melt that allowed the growth of reverse...small andesitic-dacitic volcanoes to rhyolite caldera supervolcanoes, in both arc...
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