Author Profile: L Joel

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Geology & Geophysics

News 17 May 2019

When Water Met Rock

Geologists discover rocks bearing the earliest known evidence of water interacting with rock on Earth’s surface.

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Geology & Geophysics

A team of Afghan and U.S. scientists install a continuous GPS instrument

News 10 May 2019

The Blob Causing Earthquakes

Geophysicists discover that a “blob” of rock sinking into the mantle is the force triggering earthquakes in the Hindu Kush.

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Geology & Geophysics

Feature 25 April 2019

The Search for the Severed Head of the Himalayas

To unearth the very first sediments to erode from the Himalayas, a team of scientists drilled beneath the Bay of Bengal.

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

Artist’s depiction of a newly forming solar system, which preserves conditions of its birth in isotopes and their ratios for billions of years

Feature 1 March 2019

Isotope Geochemists Glimpse Earth’s Impenetrable Interior

Painstaking measurements of isotopes and their relative abundance in rocks have illuminated the hidden inner Earth and our planet’s origins and shadowy past for much of the preceding century.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

The amphitheater of the ancient Roman city of Aventicum, in the Swiss town of Avenches

News 28 November 2018

Ancient Romans Polluted Their Lakes Just Like We Do Today

Sediments from a lake in Switzerland reveal that ancient Romans triggered dead zones caused by the runoff of nutrients. Sound familiar?

Biogeosciences

A fossil ichthyosaur, a predator that emerged in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.

News 1 November 2018

How Did Life Recover After Earth’s Worst-Ever Mass Extinction?

Ocean animals at the top of the food chain recovered first after a cataclysm at the end of the Permian period. The extinction was triggered by events resembling the changes brewing in today's oceans.

Planetary Sciences

Full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope

News 24 September 2018

How Well Can the Webb Telescope Detect Signs of Exoplanet Life?

Recent research suggests that NASA’s next-generation space telescope will be good—but not the best—at finding life-sustaining levels of oxygen in an exoplanet’s atmosphere.

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Biogeosciences