The Sediment Core and Microfossil Collections contain samples collected from as early as 1916. William R. Riedel became the first curator of Geological Collections in 1955. He began to gather private ...
Scientists just found evidence that Antarctica was a rainforest when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Some 90 million years ago, the average daily temperature in Antarctica was about 53 degrees Fahrenheit, ...
The samples and measurements are used for help reconstruct past climate and environmental conditions. X-radiograph of glacial marine sediments in West Greenland sediment core JR175-VC24, showing ...
Elizabeth Thomas, UB assistant professor of geology, holds a sediment core -- a cylindrical sample of lakebed mud. Such samples contain organic matter that can be analyzed to learn about a region ...
Hutchinson City Council committed $500,000 toward preserving and maintaining the Campbell and Otter lakes watershed. The funding, which was approved Tuesday, is slated to go toward the many ...
Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.