There are two histories for the coevolution of Earth’s chemistry and life throughout geological time. One is recorded in rocks and the other is encoded in the genomes of extant […]
Hazard maps are essential tools long used to identify and communicate the geographic areas that can be affected by naturally occurring events, such as volcanic eruptions, tsunami, and earthquakes. This […]
Edwin Cadena describió tortugas fósiles del Pleistoceno de Ecuador
When Milankovitch cycles are preserved in the geologic record, they provide a direct link between chronometer and climate change, and thus a remarkable opportunity to constrain the evolution of the […]
El proyecto coordinado por Paúl Arellano recibió fondos de la Unión Europea
The Cauto-Güacanayabo Basin is the largest strike-slip basin related to the Güacanayabo-Nipe tectonic corridor, located in eastern Cuba. The Cauto-Güacanayabo Basin started at Middle Eocene times and most of the […]
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Subaerial volcanic sector collapses are catastrophic events that may produce voluminous landslides, up to tens of km3, known as debris avalanches. These flows reach high velocities (up to 100 m/s), […]
Paricutin volcano is the youngest and one of the best studied monogenetic volcanoes from the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field, with an excellent historical record of the nine years of eruptive activity […]
The Oriente Basin of Ecuador, are part of the asymmetric foredeep portion of the present day sub-Andean retro-arc foreland system . Currently, more than 10 BBO of recoverable reserves have […]
Fired archaeological artefacts like baked clays, ceramics, soil, and kilns can record information of Earth’s magnetic field the last time they were heated. The study of the magnetization carried by […]