Boulder, Colo., USA: Article topics and locations include methane seeps as refugia; silver sources of Roman coinage; early Earth zircons; the southwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet; the Siljan impact ...
Researchers describe zircons from the Andes mountains of Patagonia. Although the zircons formed when tectonic plates were colliding, they have a chemical signature associated with when the plates were ...
Earth’s crust may have gone on the move roughly 3.8 billion years ago. “Earth is actually quite distinct to other planets, in that it has plate tectonics,” says study coauthor Nadja Drabon, a ...
Where the Colorado River today is carving the Grand Canyon, there once flowed another river in the opposite direction, according to a new study comparing tiny grains of the mineral, zircon, in Utah ...
MADISON – A new analysis of ancient minerals called zircons suggests that a harsh climate may have scoured and possibly even destroyed the surface of the Earth’s earliest continents. Zircons, the ...
Earthquakes have rocked the planet for eons. Studying the quakes of old could help scientists better understand modern tremors, but tools to do such work are scarce. Enter zircons. Researchers used ...
What scientific question(s) does your research address and what motivates this work? Despite marking one of the most significant evolutionary changes in Earth history, the Cambrian ‘explosion’ of ...
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