Tag: Marine Geosciences
April 12, 2021
UT Begins Offshore Search for Sand Resources to Protect Texas from Coastal Erosion
Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 in search of sunken treasure that holds the key to…
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Muffled Quakes
A study published March 2, 2020, in Nature Geoscience has found that when mountains on the seafloor are pulled into subduction zones โ places where…
Read MoreNovember 12, 2020
GBDS Expands to Entire Gulf
For 25 years, an industry-sponsored research project led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) has provided its members with a depositional history…
Read MoreMarch 25, 2020
Eclectic Rocks Influence Earthquake Types
New Zealandโs largest fault is a jumble of mixed-up rocks of all shapes, sizes, compositions and origins. According to research from a global team of…
Read MoreOctober 11, 2016
Scientists Studying Cores from Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact
This release was produced by MARUM โ Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen, Germany. Access the original German release:ย http://ow.ly/mHFY30554dX In April and May, 2016,…
Read MoreMay 5, 2016
Worldโs Shallowest Slow-Motion Earthquakes Detected Off New Zealandโs Coast
Research published in the May 6 edition of Science indicates that slow-motion earthquakes or โslow-slip eventsโ can rupture the shallow portion of a fault that…
Read MoreApril 6, 2015
Expedition Will Sample Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
An international research team is formalizing plans to drill nearly 5,000 feet below the seabed to take core samples from the crater of the asteroid…
Read MoreOctober 22, 2014
Catch a Falling Sediment
Planktic foraminifer Globigerinoides ruber (G. ruber)โa single-cell organism with a hard outer shellโis perhaps one of the most widely used species for reconstructing past sea-surface…
Read MoreOctober 21, 2014
Follow the Carbon
As Alaskaโs permafrost melts and degrades,what happens to the massive amount of carbon stored underneath in the form of frozen organic matter? Someof it may…
Read MoreDecember 31, 2013
Extinction Detective: Rowan Martindale Investigates the Fates of Ancient Reefs
Growing up amid the crisp, cold landscape of the Canadian Rockies, Rowan Martindaleโs family liked to vacation in tropical environs with warm waters. As a…
Read MoreMedia Releases
The @guardian's @dpcarrington was with @UTGeophysics this summer reporting on a pioneering @UTAustin-led mission to explore Greenland's glaciers underwater.
Read his report here:
With @WHOI @UFGeology @RutgersDMCS @MarineInst @UTexasResearch
.@business spoke with the Jackson School's Jay Banner about how climate change and population growth are taking a toll on Texas' water.
โDemand goes way up, supply goes way down, which is not a sustainable future for Texas water resources,โ Banner said.
In the stacks:
The role of women in the history of geology / edited by C. V. Burek and B. Higgs. Geological Society, 2007. #geology #geologists #history