USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Visit USC USC Dornsife HomepageNews & Events
RSS FeedGeology News
-
Tom Jordan Earns AGI Award
November 6, 2012University Professor Thomas Jordan, W. M. Keck Foundation Chair in Geological Sciences and professor of earth sciences, has won the 2012 Outstanding Contribution to the Public Understanding of the Geosciences Award. Jordan,… more>
-
Spain Rocks
July 13, 2012For some people, rocks are those pesky objects that sometimes find their way into your shoes. But for aspiring geologists, who study how rocks came to be, the aggregate of minerals provide a looking glass into the past. Was… more>
-
Earth's Past Is Warning for the Future
March 6, 2012When the Earth’s carbon dioxide level increased at a rapid rate during the Triassic-Jurassic period 200 million years ago, nearly half the ocean’s marine life became extinct. USC Dornsife geologists contributed to… more>
-
August 12, 2010
Cool Science
At the bottom of the Earth — the planet's coldest, driest, windiest place — the sky radiates a lavender-yellow hue in the midnight sun. Whiter than milk, the blanket of ice seems infinite. Amid the… more>
-
Closing the Gender Gap
May 7, 2010Nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) are difficult mathematical problems to study. Notice it didn’t say "solve." Ph.D. students researching nonlinear PDEs aren't looking for solutions. They're analyzing the… more>
-
Rock 'n' Research
May 6, 2010Hang around the Department of Earth Sciences in USC College in the spring and you might notice posters on the walls asking pointed questions. "Enjoy hiking, climbing, and traveling to exotic spots?" one asks. "Curious about… more>
-
July 7, 2009 True Colors in the Autumn Years
The cadre of USC alumni who had earned their bachelor's degrees at least 50 years earlier met for the first time the morning of June 11, 1949. Clarence W. Pierce, 1898 alumnus and founder of Los Angeles Pierce College,… more>
-
The Great Dying Reconsidered
October 1, 2007The greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history also may have been one of the slowest, according to a study that casts further doubt on the extinction-by-meteor theory. Creeping environmental stress fueled by volcanic… more>
-
The Shake Down
August 1, 2007The Los Angeles basin appears to be in a seismic “lull” characterized by relatively smaller and infrequent earthquakes, according to a study in the September issue of Geology. By contrast, the Mojave Desert is in… more>
-
Oldest Animal Embryos or Bacteria?
December 20, 2006The oldest-known animal eggs and embryos, whose first pictures made the cover of Nature in 1998, were so small they looked like bugs – which, it now appears, they may have been. This week, a study in the same… more>
Top Stories
- You Did It! May 17, 2013
- Getting That First Job May 23, 2013
- Head of the Class May 15, 2013
- In Memoriam: Dallas Willard, 77 May 10, 2013
- Electric City May 23, 2013
- Wall of Scholars May 21, 2013
- The Fabulous Fulbrights May 10, 2013
- Catholic Studies Institute Receives $1 Million May 21, 2013
- Scientist and Filmmaker May 17, 2013
- A Big Leg Up May 15, 2013