Tag: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
July 5, 2017
Ancient Animal Thought to be First Air Breather on Land 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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Stalagmites and Rodent Bones Record Signs of Ice Age Texas
By Monica Kortsha Inner Space Cavern is a fossil hot spot. Thanks to sinkholes that exposed the cave to the surface during the last Ice…
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Daniella Rempe: Tracking Water in the Critical Zone
By Anton Caputo and Monica Kortsha Somewhere between the ground we walk on and the bedrock below lies a murky area that’s not quite soil…
Read MoreMay 5, 2017
Water Plays a Vital Role in Formation of Earth’s Crust
May 1 (UPI) — New research suggests water penetrates deep into the crust and upper mantle to cool rock and facilitate crust formation at mid-ocean…
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Rock Samples Indicate Water is Key Ingredient for Crust Formation
By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth’s surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at…
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AAPG Celebrates Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology
By Monica Kortsha From almost the very beginning of its founding 100 years ago, women have been a part of the American Association of Petroleum…
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University of Texas Geosciences Ranks Among World’s Best
The University of Texas at Austin has one of the best geosciences research programs in the world according to two recent global rankings. The Nature…
Read MoreMarch 28, 2017
Our Cataclysmic Planet
If you could have been there, somewhere in Siberia at the end of the Paleozoic Era nearly 252 million years ago, you would have witnessed…
Read MoreMarch 15, 2017
Recovery After “Great Dying” was Slowed by More Extinctions
Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world’s worst mass extinction was followed by two other extinction events, a conclusion that…
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