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‘Peak Mining’ a long way off says Economic Geologist Simon Jowitt

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Opening of tenure-stream position in Sedimentary Geology in our department

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Formation of evolved rocks at Gale Crater by crystal fractionation and implications for Mars crustal contamination: Check out recent published work by Arya Udry

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UNLV geoscientists highlighted in Science: Ice-VII inclusions in diamonds: Evidence for aqueous fluid in Earth’s deep mantle

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UNLV geoscientists highlighted in Nature: Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago

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Timing of thrusting in the Spring Mountains clarified by low-temperature thermochronology. Michael Wells and former PhD student Michael Giallorenzo recently published this work in the GSA Bulletin

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“Unique Diamond Impurities Indicate Water Deep in Earth’s Mantle”: A study by Drs. Oliver Tschauner, Dr. Shichun Huang, and collaborators

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“Shards of Time” A study by Drs. Eugene Smith, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren and collaborators

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