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Learn about the "Champlain Thrust" geologic feature: the world's oldest reef in the Champlain Islands.
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Paul Bierman, Department of Geology Professor at The University of Vermont, sent samples to his lab after receiving a rapid-response grant from U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for travel to Namibia one-month after the country's unprecedented rainfall. Read Something Odd Is Happening With Namibia's Weather to discover why " Grass covers what should be barren stony desert" (NSF).
UVM 's Cynthia Gardner ’77 has an "Eye on Eruptions" . . . " her well-honed sense of humility — began as an undergraduate at UVM, tooling across the American West with geology professors . . .
"Earthquakes and Vermont Yankee" a WCAX interview with UVM Professor Keith Klepeis, expert in structural geology, tectonics and field geology.
The mineral Hughesite is named for Department of Geology Professor John M.Hughes; his area of expertise includes Mineralogy, Crystal Chemistry, X-ray Crystallography. Read University Communications "Nature made a very limited number of minerals, and to have one of them named after you is truly humbling," says Hughes . . ."
Professor Char Mehrtens at The University of Vermont, Department of Geology says, " the Receptaculites mystery has been solved . . . " Read the scientific debate article.
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