2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (163+ words) Each summer, a cohort of Jackson School students puts their geology skills and knowledge to the test during the school’s GEO 660 field camp, which takes them to outcrops across the western United States for three weeks of mapping, stratigraphy, and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 4+ 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…...

5+ mon, 5+ day 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…...

5+ mon, 5+ day 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…...

5+ mon, 1+ 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…...