There are scientists floating in the middle of the North Atlantic who are holding the dinosaur extinction in their hands. Really. Here it is: This may look like an alien landscape, but it’s actually a section of deep sea mud from the drilling ship Joides Resolution. When the lighter-toned sediment on the left was deposited, . . . → Read More: Drilling for dinosaur death: the Joides Resolution finds extinction in deep sea mud
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  July 10th, 2012  8 comments  Expeditions, Geology  deep sea drilling, Geology, JOIDES Resolution, K-T Extinction, PETM By Dr. M, on March 9th, 2012 7 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Evolution, Geology, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Organisms, Paleobiology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls We as humans have three fundamental questions. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the universe? The answers to these thrust at the core of our humanity and uniqueness. Through science we seek out replies to these inquiries. The Drake Equation In 1960 the National Academy of Sciences asked . . . → Read More: What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets
Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica. By Archie Teuthis, on December 30th, 2011 One comment Geology, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls AGU, American Geophysical Union, Book, chemosynthesis, Colin Schultz, Hydrothermal Vents, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, minerals, Seafloor Spreading, Spreading Center, TAG, Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 188, 2010. Editor’s Note: The following interview was conducted by Colin Schultz for American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) member publication Eos. AGU and Colin have been kind enough to let Deep Sea News reprint the interview for our readers! Peter Rona is a legend in hydrothermal vent research. Colin Schultz, Diversity of . . . → Read More: GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges
By Dr. M, on December 8th, 2011 2 comments Environmental Sciences, Geology Challenger Deep, deepest, depth, Mariana Trench, Trench A new survey puts the depth of the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, at 10,994 meters, nearly 75 meters more than deepest of prior estimates. The new survey was conducted by the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) at the University of New Hampshire. Also interesting is The . . . → Read More: Deepest Trench Now With More Deep
In case you haven’t heard a 5.9 earthquake hit Virginia just outside of Richmond. I felt it in Durham, NC and Kevin felt it out on the coast. Reports from Twitter indicate it was also felt up in Boston. If you felt it, you can log into the USGS website and report your local conditions. . . . → Read More: Virginia Earthquake
By Archie Teuthis, on July 19th, 2011 Leave a comment Geology, Microbes, Scientist! Beth Orcutt, crust, JASON II, Scientist In Residence, sediments, Subsurface Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and their role in global processes. You can check out her website to learn more about her work. Greetings, lovers of the ocean depths! I sheepishly pop my head back in . . . → Read More: Scientist in Residence: Beth Orcutt – “There is More to the Marine Subsurface than Sediments”
By Dr. M, on July 15th, 2011 4 comments Evolution, Geology, Organisms, Paleobiology, Pictures and Movies Cambrian explosion, Disparity, diversity Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion By Dr. M, on June 29th, 2011 Leave a comment Environmental Sciences, Geology astronomy, Cassini, Enceladus, moon, planet, Saturn From Wikimedia Commons: Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed “tiger stripes” near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Original source: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Sixty two moons orbit Saturn. The sixth largest of these at just 300 miles in diameter is Enceladus named after one . . . → Read More: The Ocean Moon of Saturn
By Dr. M, on May 19th, 2011 14 comments Geology, Opinion & Editorial Earth, eon, Geology, Geozoic, origns, supereon, time The largest unit of defined geologic time is the supereon. Only one is defined, the Precambrian spanning from the formation of the Earth to right before life goes crazy in the Cambrian explosion (4.6 billion years ago to 542 million years ago). Oddly, there is no other supereon after the Precambrian, just the Phanerozoic eon . . . → Read More: On the Reasons Why We Need A New Supereon
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