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Top AIPG eNews Articles of 2021
As 2021 comes to a close, AIPG would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide a look back at the most accessed articles from the year. Look for more of the top articles from 2021 in the Jan. 4 issue. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 11.
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2. Geology professor, student make mega discovery
The College Today
From June 29: It was a dark and stormy night in May 2018 when Bobby Boessenecker's phone rang unexpectedly at 11 p.m. as he sat inside his warm Charleston apartment. The caller needed Boessenecker’s help to collect a muddy skeleton at a construction site in Summerville, South Carolina.
"Just put a tarp over it," Bossenecker told him. "I'll come join you tomorrow in the daylight when it stops raining."
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4. 'Great Unconformity' puzzle: Geologists dig into Grand Canyon's mysterious gap in time
SciTechDaily
From Aug. 24: A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon's most well-known geologic features: A mysterious and missing gap of time in the canyon’s rock record that covers hundreds of millions of years.
The research comes closer to solving a puzzle, called the "Great Unconformity," that has perplexed geologists since it was first described nearly 150 years ago.
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5. Fate of sinking tectonic plates is revealed
ScienceDaily
From Nov. 16: When tectonic plates sink into the Earth they look like slinky snakes! That's according to a study published in Nature, which helps answer a long standing question about what happens to tectonic plates when they sink — or subduct — into the Earth's interior. The process helps drive plate tectonics.
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6. Geologists produce new timeline of Earth's Paleozoic climate changes
MIT News
From Feb. 2: The temperature of a planet is linked with the diversity of life that it can support. MIT geologists have now reconstructed a timeline of the Earth's temperature during the early Paleozoic era, between 510 and 440 million years ago — a pivotal period when animals became abundant in a previously microbe-dominated world.
In a study appearing today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers chart dips and peaks in the global temperature during the early Paleozoic.
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7. Geologists discover strange creatures living deep beneath Antarctic ice shelf
UPI.com
From Feb. 16: Scientists have discovered a collection of strange sponge-like sea creatures living on a boulder under some 1,650 feet of Antarctic ice.
The unidentified lifeforms, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, were found by a team of geologists drilling through the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, which stretches across part of the Weddell Sea.
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8. Look: 5 images show the most awe-inspiring geology in the Solar System
Inverse
From Aug. 31: According to author David Rothery: When we talk about amazing geological features, we often limit ourselves to those on Earth. But as a geologist, I think that's crazy — there are so many structures on other worlds that can excite and inspire, and that can put processes on our own planet into perspective.
Here, in no particular order, are the five geological structures in the solar system (excluding Earth) that most impress me.
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9. Scientists have figured out what triggers large-scale volcanic eruptions
SciTechDaily
From May 18: Hawaii's Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Because of this and its relative ease of accessibility, it is also among the most heavily outfitted with monitoring equipment — instruments that measure and record everything from earthquakes and ground movement to lava volume and advancement.
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10. UCI researchers identify primary causes of Greenland's rapid ice sheet surface melt
Sierra Sun Times
From May 11: Intense, wide-spread melting events in Greenland, such as one in July 2012 that touched nearly every part of the massive island's frozen slab, are catastrophic, but they still account for only a small portion of the total deterioration of the ice sheet, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine.
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