Tag: 2017 Newsletter
November 20, 2017
Finding the Origin of Earth’s Iron
The iron at our planet’s core is unique among known worlds, having a higher level of heavy iron isotopes than anywhere else in the known…
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Ancient Texas Reptile Discovered After 70 Years
An extinct reptile that roamed Texas more than 200 million years ago had a strikingly dome-shaped head with a very thick skull and a large…
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Smooth Lakes on Titan
The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn’s moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. Research led by the Jackson School has found…
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Breakup of Pangea Cooled Mantle and Thinned Crust
The oceanic crust produced by the Earth today is significantly thinner than crust made 170 million years ago during the time of the supercontinent Pangea….
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Dino-Killing Asteroid Made Rocks Behave Like Liquid
When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, solid rock flowed like a fluid. The finding was…
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Carbon Dioxide Monitoring Down Under
Carbon capture and storage injects carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by industrial processes deep underground, while environmental monitoring of such sites makes sure the CO2 gas…
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Sweltering Recipe for Southeast Asia
Scientists at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a devastating combination of global warming and El Niño is responsible for…
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Exceptional Fossil Site Records Jurassic Reef’s Decline
About 183 million years ago in what is now the Canadian town Banff, a marine ecosystem was teeming with shrimp, vampyropods and ichthyosaurs. But then…
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Jackson School Ranks Among Best in the World
The Jackson School of Geosciences has one of the best geosciences research programs in the world according to two global rankings that came out in…
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Fossil Loses Claim to Fame
Some good scientific sleuthing by an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin has helped rewrite one of the earliest chapters in the planet’s…
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