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Lets pretend its the Late Cretaceous, roughly 66 to 100 million years ago

Let’s pretend it’s the Late Cretaceous, roughly 66 to 100 million years ago.

Despite the recent boom in subsea Internet cables, Antarctica remains the last unconnected continent. In its long summer, it is home to dozens of research stations hosting thousands of researchers, who generate terabytes of data a day.

September 29, 2021 — Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren gave a sobering covid update to the Board of Supervisors yesterday. In the last two weeks, there

Boulder, Colo., USA: GSAs dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Locations studied this month include the western Himalaya, the boundary between the southern Coast Ranges and western Transverse Ranges in California, the northern Sierra Nevada, and northwest Nepal. Marine sedimentary records of chemical weathering evolution in the western Himalaya since 17 Ma Peng Zhou; Thomas Ireland; Richard W. Murray; Peter D. Clift Abstract: The Indus Fan derives sediment from t...

The Marthas Vineyard Times 1 of 23 A Toyota 4Runner that skidded of Middle Road in Chilmark Sunday afternoon. —Rich Saltzberg A Toyota 4Runner that skidded of Middle Road in Chilmark Sunday afternoon. —Rich Saltzberg Chilmark Police at the scene of an SUV accident on Middle Road Sunday afternoon. —Rich Saltzberg Plows at Beetlebung Corner in Chilmark. —Rich Saltzberg A front-end loader rigged with a plow helped clear the runways at Marthas Vineyard Airport Sunday. —Rich Sa...

Iain McGregor/Stuff Emperor penguins on the frozen Ross Sea – but what does the future hold for them? “Some species will flourish when waters warm, glaciers retreat or sea ice cover decreases. Others will be increasingly squeezed into smaller and smaller refuge habitats,” he said. “Already some species are expanding southwards as the Antarctic Peninsula warms.” As temperatures increase the need for strict biosecurity will be greater than ever to ensure organisms are not transferre...

January 14, 2021 at 12:29 pm by Max Abrams Standing atop the Himalayan Mountains, Alex Johnson was, quite literally, on top of the world.  By 28, he was on the path to his third degree — a Ph.D. in geology at UC Santa Barbara — had helped numerous undergraduate students spread their wings and had circled the planet in search of rocks, from the hot deserts of Oman to the snowy heights of the Himalayas.  With multiple teaching and mentorship awards to his name, the Princ...