As the ball turns: Earth’s inner core is ‘backtracking’
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Using seismic data to measure changes in solid core’s motion, geologists discover it now turns more slowly relative to surface of Earth.
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Bringing magma up to our feet—just add CO2
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Mount Erebus, Antarctica’s only active volcano, offers clues to how magma and gases in some volcanoes reach the Earth’s surface.
Read MoreOLD FAITHFUL’S HEART
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Dense seismograph network shows subsurface geyser plumbing structures.
Read MoreA SEISMIC CELEBRATION
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the U’s Seismograph Stations, which now include 237 seismic-recording stations located in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho to monitor earthquakes throughout the world and the region.
Read MoreLIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG
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A team of international paleontologists, including Adam Huttenlocker at the U, determine how some mammal relatives survived the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction.
Read MoreU PROFESSOR NAMED STATE EPSCOR DIRECTOR
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Paul Brooks, of the geology and geophysics department, has been named as the new program director of the Utah Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
Read MoreNEW AWARD FOR OLD HAND AT YELLOWSTONE
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After spending decades tromping around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks to study their volcanic and seismic hazards, awards keep pouring in for Bob Smith, a research and emeritus professor of geology and geophysics.
Read MoreMORE HOT ROCK UNDER YELLOWSTONE
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U seismologists discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano, and it is four times larger than the shallower, long-known magma chamber.
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