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  Ohio University Geological Sciences researchers presented May 2014 at the Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America. They are part of an international team working in the Chemehuevi Mountains in Southeast California. See their work on Tumblr. Oxygen Isotope Constraints on the Early Slip History of […]

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Geological Sciences announces its 2014 Departmental Awards recipients: Fisher-Phelps Department Faculty Awards Outstanding Research Award: Dr. Alycia Stigall Outstanding Service Award: Dr. Gregory Nadon Outstanding Teaching Awards: Dr. Daniel Hembree and Dr. Craig Grimes Undergraduate  Student  Awards Outstanding Geology Major Award: Casey O’Brien Outstanding Environmental […]

In her youth, Dr. Alycia Stigall, Professor of Geological Sciences, made do with A Golden Guide to Fossils, but she hopes that today’s amateur fossil collectors and researchers will have at their disposal a more comprehensive guide. That’s why she and her colleagues are creating an online database—the Digital Atlas […]

Third in a series on macro-evolution. In this article, Dr. Alycia Stigall discusses the fossil record of species biodiversity—and why it might be more important to protect “intermediate” species like the Arctic Fox than “specialist” species like the Polar Bear. By Sara LaJeunesse From Perspectives Billions lie dead on the […]

Allison Durkee ’13 has already been to the top of the world. At least that’s what the wooden signpost said. “Top of the World Store and Hotel … supplies and gas.” Somewhere in the northern Rockies. But there was no hotel for Durkee and the other students in the geology […]

Gondwana. Rodinia. Nuna. Kenorland. Vaalbara. They sound like other worlds. They likely represent the past of this world. The introduction of plate tectonics 45 years ago was one of the scientific revelations of the 20th century. German meteorologist Alfred Wegener is given credit for hypothesizing in 1912 that today’s continents […]

The Earth’s climate has gone from Greenhouse to Hothouse more than dozen times this eon. Each time, researchers say, magma brought the heat. Dr. David L. Kidder is helping to characterize the Hothouse planetary state by studying times when the Earth’s deep-level plumbing system sent large volumes of magma to […]