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Michigan Tech faculty, alumni offer dispatches from Kilauea

HOUGHTON — Volcanoes are an ongoing source of fear and fascination for humanity. The heat and destructive power are both harbingers of destruction and heralds of creation. Kīlauea, Hawaii’s youngest …

Geology

From ‘Snowball Earth’ to warm, lush jungle: Credit volcanoes

HOUGHTON — Researchers at Michigan Technological University and two other institutions are using tiny zircons — a mineral sometimes used as a gemstone — buried in Antarctic rocks to trace …

Geology / University Research

Volcano Structure: Crystals Make It Less Clear

HOUGHTON — Forget the hot, red blob that so many of us drew under the cone of a volcano in eighth grade science. Magma chambers are chemically and physically complex …

Geology / University Research

Michigan Tech Studies The Mystery Of The Menominee Crack

HOUGHTON — To a geologist, a rock is not just a rock, and a big crack in the ground is not what it first seems either. One such split, north …

Geology / Higher Education

Michigan Tech Prof Finding Clues To Earth’s Ancient Core

HOUGHTON — Old rocks hold on to their secrets. Now, a geophysicist at Michigan Technological University has unlocked clues trapped in the magnetic signatures of mineral grains in those rocks. …

Geology / Higher Education

U-M Mineral Collection Gets New Home At Michigan Tech

HOUGHTON — The University of Michigan’s mineral collection has a new home at the official mineral museum for the state of Michigan — the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan …

Geology / Higher Education

Relief For Nepal Earthquake Will Be Tough, Michigan Tech Prof Says

HOUGHTON — Getting relief supplies to millions of survivors of the Nepal earthquake will be a challenge due to the region’s rugged terrain and poor road network, according to a Michigan Technological …

Climate Science / Geology

MTU Prof’s Ice Cave Explorations Shed Light On Climate Change Effects

HOUGHTON — Soft spoken and with the wiry frame of an avid outdoorsman, Jason Gulley’s eyes light up when asked about caves. “They have a mystery around them,” he says. …

Geology / Higher Education

North America Shattered Speed Records — A Billion Years Ago

HOUGHTON — North America traveled in fast company back in its youth. A new study led by Michigan Technological University geophysicist Aleksey Smirnov reveals that 1.1 billion years ago, the …

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