Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI Meeting in Brasilia
Steven, Thomas, Sietze and Pim then carried out field work around the Araguainha crater, trying to avoid deadly snake bites.... Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI 2019 Meeting in Brasilia brought together impact crater specialists from all over the world.
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Harvesting gold and platinum from Brussels sewers
Innoviris, the Brussels Agency for Research and Innovation supports this new project called SUBLIMUS through its Bridge Strategic Platform: Green Chemistry action. SUBLIMUS develops an integrated low-cost and green process to harvest the substantial quantities of gold, platinum, silver pr...
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Science Advance paper
Paper title: An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body .
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New PNAS paper on mechanism of Dino extinction
This new paper written with a large number of colleagues from the IODP-ICDP expedition 364 describes how the Chicxulub impact vaporized sediments from the target rock and injected a large volume of S-rich components into the atmosphere leading to the mass extinction.
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Upcoming AMGC Seminar
JEONG-HYUN LEE Dept. of Geological Sciences, Chungnam National Universit MARINE OXYGENATION AND THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF PALEOZOIC REEFS Friday, Sept. 13, 2019 11 am, room F10.720
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Geological Society of America Special Papers 542 is out
Manuscripts online at https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/2157
87Sr/86Sr record from the Lower Cretaceous pelagic Maiolica limestone (Central Apennines, Italy) and its offset from the global seawater reference curve
By Joke Belza; Walter Alvarez; Frank Vanhaecke; Philippe C...
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GSA Special Papers is out
Geological Society of America Special Papers 542 just published: Manuscripts online at https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/2157: 4 papers authored by AMGC'ers/ 1) 87Sr/86Sr record from the Lower Cretaceous pelagic Maiolica limestone (Central Apennines, Italy) and its off...
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Upcoming AMGC Seminar
JOHN W. VALLEY Charles R. Van Hise Distinguished Professor Dept. of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin – Madison HADEAN ZIRCONS ARE NOT FROM HELL: EVIDENCE FROM ATOM PROBE & SIMS Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019 4 pm, room F10.720
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AMGC in Vietnam
Professors Yue Gao and Martine Leermakers organized a DGT workshop and training in Vietnam as parts of the Global Minds Programme. Afterwards they went on a field trip to deploy DGT in the Đáy River
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Barringer Fund for Meteorite Impact Research 2019 Award to Pim Kaskes
PhD student Pim Kaskes receives "The Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research 2019" to carry out detailed field mapping of the Chicxulub crater ejecta in North America. see https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Awards/Barringer_Fund/awardees/
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Philippe Claeys op het podium voor Universiteit van Vlaanderen
On Monday 17 June 2019, Philippe Claeys is invited by Universiteit Van Vlaanderen, at Club Fuse in Brussels, to talk about the extinction of the dinosaures (In Dutch). Show starts at 19:00 and is to be recorded for the YouTube channel of Universiteit Van Vlaanderen
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Seminar: “WAVEPAL: A Python software for the frequency and wavelet analyses of irregularly sampled time series”
BY GUILLAUME LENOIR
I will present the Python package WAVEPAL which performs frequency and time-frequency analyses of irregularly sampled time series without interpolating the data. The frequency analysis is based on the Lomb-Scargle periodogram and the WOSA smoothing method.
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