What's The Human Cost Of Alaska's Mineral Boom?
As the state begins looking beyond fossil fuels, mining companies are quietly preparing to take over its highways.
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As the state begins looking beyond fossil fuels, mining companies are quietly preparing to take over its highways.
As the state begins looking beyond fossil fuels, mining companies are quietly preparing to take over its highways.
Geochemists report findings from collected and analyzed helium and carbon isotopic data from springs along a nearly 250-mile segment of Alaska's Denali Fault. The fault's mantle fluid flow rates, they report, fall in the range observed for the world's other major and active strike-slip faults that form plate boundaries.
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Utah State University geochemists Dennis Newell and Coleman Hiett, Alaska-based geochronologist Jeff Benowitz, and University of Alaska Fairbanks Sean Regan report findings from collected and analyzed helium and carbon isotopic data from springs along a nearly 250-mile segment of Alaska's Denali Fault. The fault's mantle fluid flow rates, they report, fall in the range observed for the world's other major and active strike-slip faults that form plate boundaries.