Tag: UTIG
December 13, 2016
Breakup of Supercontinent 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…
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Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what’s in Lake Superior, largest of the Great…
Read MoreNovember 17, 2016
Dino-Killing Asteroid Made Rocks Behave like Liquid and Could Have Provided Habitat for New Life
A study of the massive crater that formed when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out all nonavian dinosaurs and most…
Read MoreMay 5, 2016
World’s Shallowest Slow-Motion Earthquakes Detected Off New Zealand’s Coast
Research published in the May 6 edition of Science indicates that slow-motion earthquakes or “slow-slip events” can rupture the shallow portion of a fault that…
Read MoreApril 29, 2016
Touring UTIG’s Airplane
By Laura Lindzey, a graduate student at the Jackson School of Geosciences. The post first appeared on her blog. Don Blankenship’s research group at UTIG has…
Read MoreApril 12, 2016
Geologists to drill into heart of dinosaur-killing impact
Geophysicists are returning to Earth’s most famous cosmic bullseye. Around 7 April, from a drill-ship off the coast of Yucatán, Mexico, they will start to…
Read MoreMarch 7, 2016
We Finally Know How Much The Dino-Killing Asteroid Reshaped the Earth
More than 65 million years ago, a six-mile wide asteroid smashed into Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, triggering earthquakes, tsunamis and an explosion of debris that blanketed…
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2016
Scientists Map Movement of Greenland Ice During Past 9,000 Years
Scientists have created the first map that shows how the Greenland Ice Sheet has moved over time, revealing that ice in the interior is moving…
Read MoreFebruary 1, 2016
UT Researcher Discusses Glacier Research
When it comes to learning about how glaciers change and move, scientists have only scratched the tip of the iceberg, according to one UT researcher….
Read MoreNovember 25, 2015
Climate Change Can Tear Down Mountains
The St. Elias Mountains in Alaska are more than 5000 meters tall, testament to a tectonic plate wedged underneath the region that is driving them…
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