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What lies beneath Connecticut? Yale’s SEISConn project will find out

By Guest PostSeptember 4, 2016Scienceconnecticut, geology, google earth, juan aragon, maureen long, seisconn project, seismometer, wilson cycle, yale geophysicist

Deep inside Great Mountain Forest, in the northwest corner of the state, Yale geophysicist Maureen Long kneels down in a grassy clearing to see how her seismology station fared over the long winter. (more…)

Exeter scientists carry out pioneering analysis of four billion-year-old Mars meteorite

By Guest PostJune 3, 2014Scienceacacia longifolia, akazienart, beeinflussen, chemical composition, christiane werner, christine hellmann, doug jones, eingewanderte pflanzen, hamiltons rule, ilmenite, jens oldeland, juan aragon, martian meteorite, mathematical simulations, maureen long, mineralogy, north africa, penryn campus, sahara desert, seisconn project, socially enforced nepotis, the hole story, university of exeter, wilson cycle, yale geophysicist, zircon

Scientists from the Camborne School of Mines have conducted a ground-breaking analysis of a Martian meteorite that dates back to the formation of the Earth.

Dr Gavyn Rollinson used pioneering technology to map the mineralogy of a section of the meteorite – which was discovered in North Africa and is around 4.4 billion years old. (more…)