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Geologist James Powell chronicles the evolution of our understanding of life in the deep-sea biosphere.

Geologist James Powell chronicles the evolution of our understanding of life in the deep-sea biosphere.

A 500-foot-thick layer of pumice rock on the Mediterranean seabed indicates Santorini volcano ejected 15 times more material than Hunga-Tonga during a previously unknown eruption.

In partnership with the Stillwater Public Library, Yale Public Library and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), the School of Geology recently hosted “In Search of Earth’s Secrets” to showcase their wide-ranging research and its importance.

Changes in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are considered to be the main cause of past and future climate change.

In 2016, Sean Gulick and a team of researchers extracted asteroid dust from sections of dark brown, silty claystone and greyish-green marlstone buried beneath the ocean in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Now, five years later, that dust has answered perhaps one of humankind’s most poignant questions: What killed the dinosaurs? Gulick, a research professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences, spent over a decade sending out proposals for the mission, so when it finally commenced, and he was bu...

Science 1 month, 1 week Ever since dinosaurs disappeared from the face of the Earth, researchers and archaeologists have been trying to figure out what exactly led to the extinction of thee, giant creatures. An asteroid impact on Earth is often believed to be the reason behind dinosaurs extinction. And now researchers believe that they have “closed the case” of what killed the dinosaurs. The researchers link the extinction with an asteroid based on one major evidence - they found asteroid...

Share Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a key piece of evidence: asteroid dust inside the impact crater. The crater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is located in the Yucatán Peninsula. It is called Chicxulub after a nearby town. Part of the crater is offshore and part of it is on land. The crater is buried beneath many layers...

Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a key piece of evidence: asteroid dust inside the impact crater.