1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (197+ words) This research was published in'Geology'and revises the story of the way Pangea fragmented. "Continental separation caused a second pulse of magmatism offshore the eastern United States along the East Coast Magnetic Anomaly 15 million years after CAMP," said'Harm Van Avendonk, a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (214+ words) More than 100 students, staff, researchers and faculty members in the Jackson School of Geosciences" Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences packed inside Boyd Auditorium on Tuesday to celebrate a year of excellent work in the geosciences and to recognize individuals…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (198+ words) Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean. The slow earthquake was recorded spreading along the tsunami-generating portion of a fault off the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (256+ words) Jackson School of Geosciences North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock " and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (390+ words) Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Peter Flemings, a lauded geologist who led a multi-year mission to collect core samples of methane hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico, has been named interim chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences…...