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May 15, 2014
David Auerbach: GSA Graduate Student Research Grant, R.E. McAdams Memorial Grant from American Association of Petroleum Geologists Robin Canavan: GSA Graduate Student...
May 13, 2014
Dolf Seilacher, whose scholarly work and fossil illustrations earned him regard as one of the 20th century’s great paleontologists, died April 26 in Germany. He was 89 and...
May 6, 2014
What are turtles, and where did they come from? Precise answers to these questions have long eluded scientists. But new research led by Daniel Field of Yale University and...
May 6, 2014
A perturbation of the carbon cycle and biosphere, linked to globally increased temperatures about 55.9 million years ago, characterized the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum...
May 5, 2014
Geophysical Research Letters selects Shun’s paper “Importance of anelasticity in the interpretation of seismic tomography” as one of the 40 most influential papers...
April 28, 2014
Trude Storelvmo has received an NSF CAREER award for her proposal: “The Role of Mineral Dust in Atmospheric Ice Formation, and its Impacts on Past, Present and Future Climate...
April 21, 2014
Parts of ancient Antarctica were as warm as today’s California coast, and polar regions of the southern Pacific Ocean registered 21st-century Florida heat, according to...