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  • End of Expedition 364 Onshore Science Party!
  • Tiny witnesses of time
  • Shattered Earth – Making Rock Flow
  • Putting the K-Pg in Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater Expedition
  • The skills of a geologist – Visual Core Description of the core surfaces

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Scientists Use Entho… on Shattered Earth – Making…
Scientists Use Entho… on How CT scans help Chicxulub Cr…
Chicxulub Impact Str… on Shattered Earth – Making…
They cut the Chicxul… on Emerging from the deep
Larry Berger on Making Measurements

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End of Expedition 364 Onshore Science Party!

The Onshore Science Party for Expedition 364 will come to a close on October 15th. The team hit, and exceeded … Continue reading End of Expedition 364 Onshore Science Party!

Tiny witnesses of time

Tiny witnesses of time

Most of us have heard about fossils like ammonites, Nautilus, Propalaeotherium or the Neanderthals. In one of the Chicxulub-cores a … Continue reading Tiny witnesses of time

Shattered Earth  –  Making Rock Flow

Shattered Earth – Making Rock Flow

66 million years ago rock was shattered in the Earth’s crust of the Yucatan Peninsula. Nearly instantaneously, once immobile granite … Continue reading Shattered Earth – Making Rock Flow

Putting the K-Pg in Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater Expedition

Putting the K-Pg in Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater Expedition

The official name of this expedition is “Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater.” Hopefully by now you know what “Chicxulub” and “impact … Continue reading Putting the K-Pg in Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater Expedition

The skills of a geologist – Visual Core Description of the core surfaces

The skills of a geologist – Visual Core Description of the core surfaces

Investigations towards uncovering the secrets of the Chicxulub cores are not all covered by instruments. With a lot of expertise … Continue reading The skills of a geologist – Visual Core Description of the core surfaces

How CT scans help Chicxulub Crater scientists

How CT scans help Chicxulub Crater scientists

The Chicxulub Crater cores have had an experience that IODP expedition cores rarely are able to have. That large machine … Continue reading How CT scans help Chicxulub Crater scientists

A big performance in two halves

A big performance in two halves

The working half of the core is having its big performance: Coming right from the diamond core splitter, it is … Continue reading A big performance in two halves

Looking at science with kids’ eyes

Looking at science with kids’ eyes

The cores were drilled on a Mission Specific Platform and the cores will be split, described, analyzed, and sampled onshore … Continue reading Looking at science with kids’ eyes

The Beauty of the Cores

The Beauty of the Cores

For me looking at the horizontal cores, this is love at first sight. I see lovely coloured GRANITE with beautiful … Continue reading The Beauty of the Cores

They cut the Chicxulub Crater cores in half!!

They cut the Chicxulub Crater cores in half!!

Back in May, one of the Chicxulub Crater cores wrote a blog post about what its life was like on … Continue reading They cut the Chicxulub Crater cores in half!!

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