Exposed GSL playa can threaten human health in new ways.
Categories: Outreach
Toxins from Great Salt Lake dust are absorbed by plants, soils and human bodies
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Running Rocks!
Categories: Outreach
U geologist ultrarunners experience rock formations and the landscape at large through a unique filter.
Read MoreFreshwater under Great Salt Lake playa
Categories: Faculty Research
GSL breakthrough: airborne surveys to characterize a deep freshwater reservoir under Farmington Bay.
Read MoreGreat Salt Lake’s Patchwork of fresh and salty groundwater
Categories: Faculty Research
Surveys by geoscientists reveal a hidden, dynamic aquifer system under the lake’s exposed playa
Read MoreNew Director of Research and Science at Utah FORGE
Categories: Alumni
Kristie McLin PhD’12 replaces mentor, U geologist Joseph Moore, who will take an emeritus role
Read MoreMantle plume versus plate tectonics
Categories: Faculty Research
Why so much magma appeared during continental break that formed the North Atlantic
Read MoreWhen Earth’s magnetic field took its time flipping
Categories: Faculty Research
Sediment cores from North Atlantic reveal pole reversal dragged on for 70K years
Read MoreBanning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
Categories: Faculty Research
Documenting a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations
Read MoreYellowstone’s magma reservoir
Categories: Faculty Research
Yellowstone’s Doublet Pool cranks up the bass every 20 to 30 minutes by “thumping.”
Read MoreDown to Earth 2024
Categories: publications
The 2024 edition of Down to Earth, official magazine for the Dept of Geology & Geophysics.
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