Pale fixation ails rock
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19.  Imagine a list of history&#39;s greatest astronauts without any mention of Americans. History&#39;s greatest philosophers without any mention of the Greeks. Absurd. But here&#39;s one more: a commemoration of 50 years of rock&#39;n&#39;roll ...
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You can learn something about a rock by looking at it. But what most geologists really want is to smack it with a hammer. And that&#39;s just what planetary scientists will do July 4 when NASA&#39;s Deep Impact mission
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The stone "fin" on the new lava lobe inside the crater at Mount St. Helens seems to be starting to split.
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By PIPPA GREENWOOD  SOME of my houseplants are looking pale and yellow.
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Long gone are the days when the  Rolling Stones courted controversy with their sex, drugs and  rock 'n' roll antics. Nowadays, the health of the surviving  band members is more often the hot talking point.
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The slow and nearly constant vibrations of Earth&#39;s crust stem from severe winter weather over some of the world&#39;s oceans, a new analysis of seismic data suggests.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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For the first time, a drumlin - a mound of sediment and rock - has been observed mid-formation, in Antarctica.
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Scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw.
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By Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 27--Rock on.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity has found an unusual pattern of cracking on a rock it discovered inside a Martian crater -- evidence, perhaps, that water may once have soaked parts of the crater bed, researchers said yesterday.
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Gostar Klingelhofer of Johannes Gutenberg University reported that NASA&#39;s Mars rover Spirit found a rock that had sizable amounts of an iron-containing mineral associated with water.
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Bad weather is hampering efforts to salvage a lifeboat stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast.
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Scientists disagree on whether the region's high subsidence rates are natural or due to human intervention.
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Part of the gray stone facade at the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island fell to the ground last month, seemingly a matter of gravity picking up where negligence left off.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  May 28--LINN GROVE -- A shadow of a tall spire reaches across the cemetery almost instantly as the morning sun breaks over the prairie horizon.   Like many headstones here, the spire is stone, or marble or granite.
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.