For 25 years, an industry-sponsored research project led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), has provided its members with a depositional history of the offshore northern Gulf of Mexico. Now for the first time, UTIG’s Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) program, will offer its members analysis of the entire basin, including the […]
Finding a sustainable solution to a human-driven sand crisis
Of the many crises facing the world today, few expected a global shortage of sand to be among them. Whether in the concrete around us or the phones in our hands, modern society probably uses more sand than any other natural resource. Getting hold of the right stuff, however, has suddenly become a major concern […]