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Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World
Six million years ago, a vast ocean--which scientists have named Tethys--vanished from the face of the earth. How could such a huge body of water simply disappear? More interesting, how is it possible for scientists to know with certainty that Tethys existed for a quarter of a billion years, a period that includes the entire "Age of Dinosaurs" and almost all of the "Age of Mammals," right up to the point when our distant ancestors began to walk upright.
Here then is the gripping story of the merging and splintering of continents, the rise and fall of mountain ranges, and an ancient, vast ocean that simply vanished from sight. It is a story that reminds us of the profound impact of oceans and their currents on the environment, climate, and life of our planet.
To be published in 2010
You might find ProQuest useful
We don't recommend ProQuest as the only place you search, but it includes useful commentary on topics from geoscience magazines. It also includes records from Science and Nature. Publisher databases such as ScienceDirect, Springer and Wiley InterScience do not include records from these important journals.
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Geology in the news for November 2009
- November 2009 Geology and GSA Today highlights GEOLOGY covers a range of topics, including tsunami geomorphology, sag pond deposits, ooids and seawater chemistry, hillslope weathering, volcanoes and the nature of volcanic eruptions, minerals, marine sediments, paleoseismic faults, oxygen isotope records, bolide impact and banded iron formations, trace metal pollution from mining and metallurgy, tidal cycles, and Barchan dunes. The GSA TODAY science article focuses on microbial mats as evidence for early life and the Groundwork article asks k
Geology in the news for October
These news reports provide commentary on recent articles published in scientific journals.
- Soufriere Hills volcano, on Montserrat, is active again. see the photo taken from space
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Not Be Losing Ice As Fast As Once Thought New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest the rate of ice loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet has been slightly overestimated.
- Geologists Point To Outer Space As Source Of The Earth's Mineral Riches According to a new study by geologists at the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland, the wealth of some minerals that lie in the rock beneath the Earth's surface may be extraterrestrial in origin.
- New Ancient Fungus Finding Suggests World's Forests Were Wiped Out In Global Catastrophe
- Scientists Measure The Rate Of Ascent Of Volcanic Magma
- Sunspots stir oceans Computer simulations are showing how tiny variations in the Sun's brightness can have a big influence on weather above the Pacific Ocean.
Nature News report on an article published in Science
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Geology Papers in the News
- Did the Paleoproterozoic global glaciation happen because plate tectonics switched off? paper published in the June issue of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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