Adapted from an article by Anne J. Manning at The Harvard Gazette, published April 24, 2024. Fossil record stretching millions of years shows tiny ocean creatures on the move before Earth heats up For hundreds of millions of years, the oceans have teemed with single-celled organisms called foraminifera, which are hard-shelled, microscopic creatures at the… Continue Reading Early warning sign of extinction?
Antoniette Greta Grima: ‘Bam! It broke in two and went on its own sweet way as if nothing had happened’
UTIG’s postdoc on discovering a new kind of tectonic behavior. GEOPHYSICS Q&A Before joining the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Antoniette Greta Grima discovered a previously unknown tectonic plate behavior that she called ‘slab orphaning.’ The process, which occurs 660 kilometers (410 miles) under the Earth’s surface, describes the way tectonic plates — or… Continue Reading Antoniette Greta Grima: ‘Bam! It broke in two and went on its own sweet way as if nothing had happened’