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The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska
(Springer Nature, 2018-09-06)Glacial retreat in recent decades has exposed unstable slopes and allowed deep water to extend beneath some of those slopes. Slope failure at the terminus of Tyndall Glacier on 17 October 2015 sent 180 million tons of rock ... -
A Geodetic Strain Rate Model for the East African Rift System
(Nature, 2018-01-15)Here we describe the new Sub-Saharan Africa Geodetic Strain Rate Model v.1.0 (SSA-GSRM v.1.0), which provides fundamental constraints on long-term tectonic deformation in the region and an improved seismic hazards assessment ... -
A Short-Snouted, Middle Triassic Phytosaur and its Implications for the Morphological Evolution and Biogeography of Phytosauria
(Nature, 2017-04-10)Following the end-Permian extinction, terrestrial vertebrate diversity recovered by the Middle Triassic, and that diversity was now dominated by reptiles. However, those reptilian clades, including archosaurs and their ... -
A unifying model for Neoproterozoic–Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression
(Nature, 2014-12-17)Soft-tissue fossils capture exquisite biological detail and provide our clearest views onto the rise of animals across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition. The processes contributing to fossilization of soft tissues, however, ... -
A-site doping-induced renormalization of structural transformations in the PbSc0.5Nb0.5O3 relaxor ferroelectric under high pressure
(American Physical Society, 2010-05-01)The effect of A-site incorporated Ba2+ and Bi3+ on the pressure-driven structural transformations in Pb-based perovskite-type relaxor ferroelectrics has been studied with in situ x-ray diffraction and Raman scattering of ... -
Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian.
(2015-11-26)Morphology-based phylogenetic analyses support the monophyly of the Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Priapulida) and Nematoida (Nematoda, Nematomorpha), together constituting the monophyletic Cycloneuralia that is ... -
Cell adhesion of Shewanella oneidensis to iron oxide minerals: Effect of different single crystal faces
(American Institute of Physics, 2005-12-30)The results of experiments designed to test the hypothesis that near-surface molecular structure of iron oxide minerals influences adhesion of dissimilatory iron reducing bacteria are presented. These experiments involved ... -
Characteristics of magma-driven hydrothermal systems at oceanic spreading centers
(American Geophysical Union, 2013-06)We use one- and two-limb single-pass models to de termine vent field characteristics such as mass flow rate Q, bulk permeability in the discharge zone k(d), thickness of the conductive boundary layer at the base of the ... -
Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils
(NAS, 2015-10-13)In living organisms, color patterns, behavior, and ecology are closely linked. Thus, detection of fossil pigments may permit inferences about important aspects of ancient animal ecology and evolution. Melanin-bearing ... -
Climate model boundary conditions for four Cretaceous time slices
(Copernicus Publications, 2007)General circulation models (GCMs) are useful tools for investigating the characteristics and dynamics of past climates. Understanding of past climates contributes significantly to our overall understanding of Earth's climate ... -
Comparison between beryllium and diamond-backing plates in diamond-anvil cells: Application to single-crystal x-ray diffraction high-pressure data
(AIP Publishing, 2011-05)A direct comparison between two complete intensity datasets, collected on the same sample loaded in two identical diamond-anvil pressure cells equipped, respectively, with beryllium and diamond-backing plates was performed. ... -
The competing effects of microbially derived polymeric and low molecular-weight substances on the dispersibility of CeO2 nanoparticles
(Springer Nature, 2018-02-26)To understand the competing effects of the components in extracellular substances (ES), polymeric substances (PS) and low-molecular-weight small substances (SS) <1 kDa derived from microorganisms, on the colloidal stability ... -
Constraints on the S wave velocity structure in a continental shield from surface wave data: Comparing linearized least squares inversion and the direct search Neighbourhood Algorithm
(American Geophysical Union, 2002-05)[1] In their study of upper mantle structure beneath the Parana Basin of SE Brazil, Snoke and James [1997] concluded, on the basis of a linearized least squares inversion (LLSI) of surface wave dispersion data, that a ... -
Crustal structure beneath southern Africa and its implications for the formation and evolution of the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons
(American Geophysical Union, 2001-07-01)The formation of Archean crust appears to involve processes unique to early earth history. Initial results from receiver function analysis of crustal structure beneath 81 broadband stations deployed across southern Africa ... -
Crustal thicknesses in SE Brazilian Shield by receiver function analysis: Implications for isostatic compensation
(American Geophysical Union, 2002-01)[1] The Brazilian Lithosphere Seismic Project (BLSP, a joint project by University of Sao Paulo and Carnegie Institution, 1992-1999) operated more than 20 temporary broadband stations in the southeastern Brazilian shield. ... -
Development of the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences MEDL-CMC
(2016-12-12)In 2015 the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences took a leading role in increasing the level of support for Geoscience instructors by investing in the development of the Geosciences Modeling and Educational Demonstrations ... -
Discovery and ramifications of incidental Magnéli phase generation and release from industrial coal-burning
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-01-12)Coal, as one of the most economic and abundant energy sources, remains the leading fuel for producing electricity worldwide. Yet, burning coal produces more global warming CO2 relative to all other fossil fuels, and it is ... -
Drilling Predation on Serpulid Polychaetes (Ditrupa arietina) from the Pliocene of the Cope Basin, Murcia Region, Southeastern Spain
(PLOS, 2012-04-05)We report quantitative analyses of drilling predation on the free-living, tube-dwelling serpulid polychaete Ditrupa arietina from the Cope Cabo marine succession (Pliocene, Spain). Tubes of D. arietina are abundant in the ... -
Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs
(Springer Nature, 2015-03-19)Triassic predatory guild evolution reflects a period of ecological flux spurred by the catastrophic end-Permian mass extinction and terminating with the global ecological dominance of dinosaurs in the early Jurassic. In ...
