geologist

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Erica Luzzi, a planetary geologist and postdoctoral researcher with the Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute, led a study that uncovered signs of water ice located just below the Martian surface.

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"As the planet gets hotter, rocks weather faster and take up more CO2, cooling the planet back down again," said Andy Ridgwell, a UC Riverside geologist and co-author of the study published in Science.

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A global team of geologists and paleontologists has developed a new technique that makes it possible to accurately determine the age of fossil-bearing rocks by directly analyzing fossilized dinosaur eggshells.

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These microscopic signatures are widely recognized by geologists as a hallmark of an impact event.

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For years, geologists assumed these enriched elements came from ocean sediments pulled into the mantle when tectonic plates sink, or from columns of rising hot rock known as mantle plumes.

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