News & Blog Coverage

Coverage of GSA, the Annual Meeting, and related geoscience.

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• Asbestos Fibers Thread Through Rocks and Dust Outside Vegas
  Source: Eos
• Road Dust: A Health Hazard Hidden in Plain Sight
  Source: Eos
• Machu Picchu: ancient Incan sanctuary intentionally built on an underlying network of tectonic faults and fractures
  Source: Stone-Ideas.com
• Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones. Now, researchers think they know why
  Source: Science
• Research Suggests Machu Picchu Was Purposely Built on Top of Intersecting Fault Lines
  Source: Smithsonian
• Incas Built Machu Picchu over Tectonic Faults on Purpose, Potentially Solving Mystery of Monument's Extreme Location
  Source: Newsweek
• York NASA Aerospace Academy students visit national scientific conference
  Source: Queens Daily Eagle
• Ohio Geologist Share Their Science at the GSA Annual Meeting
  Source: Ohio University
• Faith And The Environment: Why Climate Change Is An Everything Issue
  Source: KJZZ
• Prehistoric find: Triassic period vertebrate tracks are earliest discovered in Nevada
  Source: Las Vegas Sun
• How Wildfires May Muck Up The West’s Reservoirs
  Source: Boise State Public Radio
• Dinosaur tracks found in Nevada
  Source: KTNV 13
• Great Lakes sediments show high levels of microplastic contamination
  Source: ZME Science
• Study: Inca decision to build Machu Picchu in an impossible location 'not a coincidence'
  Source: Edmonton Journal
• An Ancient Underwater Dinosaur Could Do the Breast Stroke Better than All of Us
  Source: News 18
• Canary Islands yield new evidence of Sahara's age 
  Source: UPI
• Global Science in Action (start at minute 24)
  Source: BBC
• The Sahara Is Millions of Years Older Than Thought
  Source: Smithsonian
• Local paleontologists uncover 240 million-year-old vertebrate tracks in Nevada
  Source: KSNV News 3
• How Wildfires May Muck Up The West’s Reservoirs
  Source: High Plains Public Radio
• Machu Picchu was built by the Inca civilisation on tectonic fault lines 'because it provided vast amounts of rocks ideal for construction'
  Source: Daily Mail
• These Prehistoric Sea Monsters Had a Mean Breast Stroke
  Source: Smithsonian
• Research Suggests Machu Picchu Was Purposely Built On Top of Intersecting Fault Lines
  Source: Smithsonian
• The location mystery of Machu Picchu finally solved
  Source: Tech Explorist
• Machu Picchu May Have Lasted Nearly 600 Years Because Incans Purposefully Built The City Directly On A Fault Line
  Source: IFL Science
• This 50-Feet Long Marine Reptile Preyed With A Deadly Breaststroke
  Source: Mashable
• KRCC Wednesday Newscast
  Source: KRCC
• Machu Picchu And Other Inca Sites Were Built on Top of Tectonic Faults
  Source: Forbes
• Mystery over Machu Picchu's remote location may have been solved
  Source: MSN
• 50ft long Cretaceous marine reptile was able to kill its prey while doing breaststroke, say scientists
  Source: Yahoo News
• Tale of Two Climate Crises Gives Clues to the Present
  Source: Florida Daily Heralds
• 66 million-year-old sea monster had unfair advantage: It 'swam unlike anything else'
  Source: Fox News
• This Ancient Sea Monster Could Do the Breaststroke
  Source: LiveScience
• How Wildfires May Muck Up The West’s Reservoirs
  Source: KUNC
• Geological Society recognizes W&M’s Heather Macdonald at its annual meeting
  Source: William & Mary
• Sahara Desert is at Least 4.6 Million Years Old, Ancient Dust from Vast Landscape Reveals
  Source: Newsweek
• Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones. Now, researchers think they know why
  Source: Science
• 5,000 Geologists Meet In Phoenix For Annual Conference
  Source: KJZZ
• Geology and Environmental Sustainability: Some Themes From the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
  Source: On the Brink blog
• New UCR geology course earns national recognition
  Source: UC Riverside