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Thursday Update

DEC 09, 2011
The 2011 AGU meeting.
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The Manicouagan crater in Quebec, Canada

NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL/MISR Team via Wikimedia Commons

(Inside Science) -- I spent much of Wednesday writing and editing a story for Inside Science News Service about the relationship between the harvest dates for the pinot noir grape in France and local climate.

We released the story today .

I also attended more sessions about earthquakes and also impact craters. The Manicouagan crater in Quebec, Canada stood out as interesting. It was once 60 miles wide, the result of a collision 200 million years ago. A team of researchers, including John Spray from the University of New Brunswick, is halfway through a ten year project to greatly increase their understanding of it. Some of the rock cores used in the research, Spray said, were left behind at the site in past years after mining companies drilled them at great cost in an effort to identify mineral resources.

I’m back in College Park now and this might be my last post about the American Geophysical Union meeting, but please check in as the Inside Science staff will regularly link to terrific science news stories, both from the Inside Science website and around the web.

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