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The village of Zumaia, on the Basque Coast (north coast) of Spain, hosted a meeting recently (October 26-28, 2022) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the 60th anniversary of the IUGS, with representatives from over 40 counties. The...

The Himalayan Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, the largest and highest geologic structures in the world, started forming some 50 million years ago through the crashing and colliding of the Asian and Indian continental plates. The Tibetan Plateau is a...

The history of the Earth and of life on Earth is written in sedimentary rock layers. To understand the history, you must understand the rocks. Sedimentary rock layers of 541- 485 million years old, from the Cambrian Period, provide a record of incredible...

A new paper recently released in Geology by researchers Jacob Mulder, Karl Karlstrom, and other Australian colleagues provides a new dataset that may resolve the more than three decades-long debate about which continents were adjacent to southwestern USA...

Provost Chaouki Abdallah and Health Sciences Center Chancellor Paul Roth announced the promotion of six UNM faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank of Distinguished Professor is the highest faculty title that UNM bestows. It is awarded...

The University of New Mexico Alumni Association has announced the recipients of the prestigious 2018 Winter Awards: Joy Harjo, Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, Donald “Duffy” Swan and Karl E. Karlstrom. “We are proud to honor the 2018 award recipients for their...

Research scientists from universities across the state are making progress on some of the complex research needed to address obstacles related to energy independence.

Dr. Karl Karlstrom has spent a lifetime studying rocks. A professor of geology in University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (E&PS), Karlstrom has carved out an impressive academic career conducting research on rocks at one of...

Annually, the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department compiles a list of its top-10 research news stories from the University of New Mexico during the course of the year. Below is the list of UNM's top-10 research news stories for 2014. The stories listed are in chronological order.

The debate over the age of the Grand Canyon has carried on for more than 140 years with several different scenarios bandied about over the decades. Some scientists say the canyon is some 70 million years old, while others believe it is much younger – l