About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a literal hotbed for life enriching the overlying ocean for at least 700,000 years, according to research published today in… Continue Reading Life Recovered Rapidly at Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid. A Hydrothermal System May Have Helped.
North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock — and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in the Earth’s mantle may be the reason why. A paper published in Nature Geoscience describes the phenomenon, which was discovered at The University of Texas at… Continue Reading North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
New Director Joins UT Gulf Basin Energy Partnership
Richard Denne has been named the new program director for the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) program at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. GBDS is a long-running research partnership with the energy industry. Prior to his role at GBDS, Denne was an industry geologist for over 25 years before joining Texas Christian University… Continue Reading New Director Joins UT Gulf Basin Energy Partnership
UTIG Seminar Series: Weisen Shen, Stony Brook University
Friday, March 7, 2025 at 10:30am CT
Speaker: Weisen Shen, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University
Hosts: Duncan Young & Chuanming Liu
Title: Seismic architecture of the deep continental crust and its implications Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Weisen Shen, Stony Brook University
UT Austin Partnership with Energy Industry Celebrates 30 Years of Science – Banner
The University of Texas at Austin is celebrating a long-running research partnership with the energy industry that has generated 30 years of scientific discovery about the Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 1995 at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) program turns industry data into geologic maps for use by academic… Continue Reading UT Austin Partnership with Energy Industry Celebrates 30 Years of Science – Banner
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