Largest fossil cockroach found: Site preserves incredible detail
..., an avid fossil collector and geology graduate of Youngstown State University in Ohio. McComas discovered the fossil site in 1979, and named it the "7-11 Mine" because it is located at the intersection of Ohio State Routes 7 and...Prizes awarded in the 2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme
...e at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen in geology and palaeontology and qualified there as a university lecturer in 1988. Following activities in Erlangen and in Heidelberg, he was appointed to the GEOMAR Research Centre at Kiel University. Since 1999, he has headed the research centre as its direct...Ancient supernova may have triggered eco-catastrophe
...ferent fields of research, including paleontology, geology and astronomy. Narciso Benitez, an associate research scientist in astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University, says the missing smoking gun that brought the clues together was the revelation that a stellar c...February media highlights - GSA Bulletin
...gnetic anomalies over Seattle reflects the complex geology of the Seattle fault zone, which extends east-west along the southern margin of the Seattle basin beneath Puget Sound and Seattle. Geologic arguments, seismic-reflection data, and geophysical models indicate that the Seattle fault zone consist of sev...UNC geologist, students to unveil 221 million-year-old top N.C. fossil
...-year-old jigsaw puzzle, Dr. Joseph Carter and his geology students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will display their work to the public beginning Feb. 27. What they have done, Carter said, is to painstakingly piece together the large skeleton of an extinct reptile known as a rauisuchian,...Hiroshima porcelain pieces provide insight into exposure levels
...cs Society Journal. More recently, Union College geology student Jonathan MacDonald joined the team to determine the track density of fission tracks in porcelain fragments that were also found near ground zero. This study complements the previous work. At face value, these results are fluence values from a...New process by Temple grad student can place loose fossils back into the strata or determine fakes
...s Patrick, who conducted her research under Temple geology faculty members David Grandstaff and Dennis Terry....th, and physics for 15 years, became interested in geology when she accompanied her oldest son on a dig in Utah a few years ago. When the paleontologist at th...Impact events' kinetic energy may be key to understanding the severity of mass extinctions
...acts with mass extinction events. Michael Lucas, a geology student at Florida Gulf Coast University, believes that the severity of four extinction events during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic can be correlated with the total kinetic energy released by impacts that occur during the geologic age of the mass extinct...Orgin of mysterious subterranean gases identified, says University of Toronto researcher
... Sherwood Lollar, a professor in the department of geology and lead researcher of the study published in the April 4 issue of Nature, has found evidence of abiogenic gases in underground mines. Life on Earth probably began from simple organic compounds, including hydrocarbons that were formed from abiogenic ...Iron-rich soil can help remove lead; manganese also important
...sonian Institution with ones from Virginia Tech's geology museum and from the donations of collectors. Results to date show that while synthetic manganese oxides are highly efficient at taking up lead, the naturally occurring manganese oxides (ad)sorb lead in similar amounts as naturally occurring iron ox...May media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
... Holocene sea-level rise. In their paper in Marine geology (1997; and numerous other publications), Bill Ryan, Walter Pitman, and coworkers have proposed that the reconnection took place via a catastrophic flood of Mediterranean water into the Black Sea at ~7.5 ka, and they suggest that this was the historic...Geologists show how wetlands can clean up acid mine drainage
...e was provided by UC faculty members David Nash in geology and Jodi Shann in biological sciences, Erika Elswick and Steve Studley from Indiana University and Ron Smith from the Indiana Geological Survey....Cosmic impacts implicated in both the rise and fall of dinosaurs
...out 200 million years ago. Dennis V. Kent, Rutgers geology professor, was among a team of geologists who analyzed footprints, bones and plant spores in more than 70 locations in eastern North America, as well as iridium dust and magnetic fields in four corresponding sediment layers in the Newark Basin. The t...Reactor reveals hidden life of rocks
... do it without destroying the rock," said UC Davis geology professor Charles Lesher. Researcher Martin Wilding, geology assistant professor Dawn Sumner and Lesher have already used the method, called neutron tomography, ...Study of fossils found in arctic shows plants more developed at earlier time
...hele E. Kotyk, Dr. James F. Basinger, professor of geology at the University of Saskatchewan, and Dr. Tim A. de Freitas, a Calgary, Canada geologist working for Nexen Inc. Bits and pieces of the earliest known land plants date back almost 500 million years to the Ordovician Period, and their fragmentary rema...University of California, Riverside study dates our ancestors
...eared. A team led by Dr. Mary Droser, professor of geology at the University of California, Riverside, studied "trace" fossils, e.g., burrows, trails and tracks left behind by the earliest bilaterian animals. Results from their study suggest that bilaterian animals did not appear until approximately 555 mil...Study shows fossil records remain stable in storm beds
... Oct. 25, 2002 -- Studies done by a Virginia Tech geology graduate student show that fossil records preserve...ard K. Bambach." Bambach is a former professor of geology at Virginia Tech who is now at Harvard. He was the advisor for Barbour Wood's undergraduate thesis ...UMass team to study bioremediation of acid, heavy metals from collapsed mind
... site for more than 20 years, will study what role geology is playing in the natural clean-up: "The acid and the heavy metals react with bedrock and other glacial deposits and are neutralized. It's similar to a person with an upset stomach taking an antacid; the acid level drops," said Yuretich. There are a...Arsenic in New England wells more widespread than thought
...lt'," says Ayotte. "We can now use the relation to geology to gain a better understanding of where arsenic contamination is mostly likely to occur and how many people are affected." Although no one is certain why the region has high concentrations of arsenic in its groundwater, increasing evidence suggests t...... different types of contaminants and the soils and geology differ from place to place. One approach that has shown promise for some situations can be viewed as "washing dirt". In the same way dishwashing detergents clean greasy dishes, scientists studying groundwater contamination are using detergent-like s...