Peter Molnar takes down a popular scientific theory at the 2014 John Carlson Lecture
University of Colorado at Boulder professor presented “Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life” at the New England Aquarium.
University of Colorado at Boulder professor presented “Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life” at the New England Aquarium.
Geologist and 2014 Crafoord Prize-winner will deliver the 4th annual John Carlson Lecture.
MIT researchers calculate river networks’ movement across a landscape.
MIT researchers find that the end-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years — much faster than earlier estimates.
Results show a rupture of the San Andreas Fault could generate three times more shaking in Los Angeles than surrounding regions.
Researchers find immense heating at high pressures helps spread intermediate-depth quakes.
EAPS professor Timothy L. Grove has been named a Goldschmidt Medalist by the Geochemical Society for his contributions to Earth and planetary research.
Created by OEIT's ARTEMiS group, the Plate Tectonics interactive visualization challenges students to interpret a 3-D globe of tectonic data, providing animations of the opening and closing of ocean basins and the splitting of Pangaea.
Research points to large reservoirs of material deep in the mantle that may help to explain Earth’s origins.
New study helps resolve a dispute over the origins of coral-reef formations.
Researchers use volcanic islands to measure how rainfall sets the pace of landscape formation.
Some 200 million years ago, an increase in atmospheric CO2 caused acidification of the oceans and global warming that killed off 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species on Earth.
Massive lava flows may have given rise to two distinct rock types on Mercury’s surface.