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Wednesday June 1, 2016

We have added new suites of zircons from a variety of rhyolite tuffs and lavas…

Tuesday April 29, 2014

Mountain-building and the end of an ancient ocean beneath modern New England

Tuesday April 8, 2014

Barite is an occasional voluminous component of the non-magnetic heavy mineral fraction of altered volcanic…

Friday November 22, 2013

This published manuscript describes an efficient method for high-volume heavy mineral separation from clay-rich rocks using…

Friday November 22, 2013

These SEM-based cathodoluminescence (CL) photomicrographs of zircon crystals illustrate the positive enhancement of CL emission…

Saturday September 7, 2013

New slideshows and instructional videos are now available in LabShare! These resources demonstrate the methods…

Monday September 2, 2013

Between roughly 650 and 635 million years ago, most – if not all – of…

Tuesday August 13, 2013

Measurements of minuscule amounts of naturally occurring uranium and lead in volcanic minerals made by…

Tuesday August 13, 2013

The science of isotope geochronology turns 100 years old in 2013 and at the recommendation…

Monday August 13, 2012

IGL Director Mark Schmitz is one of four editors on The Geologic Time Scale 2012,…

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