Sea-Level Changes Formed Australia's K'gari Sand Island
How did the world’s largest sand island ,K’gari, along with the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef, come to be?
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What's with the cool Moho under the Rockies?
Tony Lowry and students highlight the correspondence of cool lower crust with high elevation in the West -- describing upper mantle hydration as the cause, as it drives alteration up through the lithosphere.
SPICEing up the Cambrian Chronology
Grad student Hannah Cothren and Dr. Carol Dehler provide the first numerical age constraint for the global SPICE isotopic event through study of the fabulous Cambrian section preserved in the Bear River Range.
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