Centenera Signs LOI to Acquire El Quemado Pegmatite Project, Salta Province, Argentina (Artha Resources Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
(Source. Artha Resources Corporation) Vancouver, British Columbia. - Centenera Mining Corporation (the 'Company' or 'Centenera') - (TSXV ... Project Details ... border zone; b. wall zone; c ... government signed the Financial Stability Act into law in 2010 to stem the trade of 'conflict tantalum,' and a system that includes mineral chemistry, geochronology, and mineral liberation analysis is being developed to trace the origin of tantalum ore ... Mr....

Centenera Signs LOI to Acquire El Quemado Pegmatite Project, Salta Province, Argentina

Edit Stockhouse 07 Jun 2016
(via Thenewswire.ca). Vancouver, British Columbia / TheNewswire / June 7 2016 - Centenera Mining Corporation (the “Company” or “Centenera“) - (TSXV ...    ...    ... government signed the Financial Stability Act into law in 2010 to stem the trade of “conflict tantalum,” and a system that includes mineral chemistry, geochronology, and mineral liberation analysis is being developed to trace the origin of tantalum ore.  ... Mr ... ....

Extinct Otter Named For Grateful Dead Guitarist Bobby Weir

Edit Inquisitr 05 Jun 2016
It’s not every day that a long-extinct animal is discovered, and it’s even rarer when the scientific name assigned to such a find refers to a musician in a psychedelic rock band ... Prassack named a pre-Pleistocene river otter Lontra weiri ... I am the park paleontologist in charge of research and collections at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument and an affiliate of the Olduvai Geochronology and Archaeology Project.”....

Study pinpoints timing of oxygen’s first appearance in Earth’s atmosphere (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 14 May 2016
(Source. MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Today, 21 percent of the air we breathe is made up of molecular oxygen ... When, then, did oxygen first accumulate in the atmosphere? ... Whiffs in the air ... Now, thanks to the improved precision in geochronology, which Summons largely credits to EAPS Professor Samuel Bowring, scientists can start to nail down the mechanisms behind major events in Earth's history, with more precise dates....

Simonetti receives USGS Service Award (University of Notre Dame)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016
(Source. University of Notre Dame) ... Geological Survey (USGS) ... Simonetti has distinguished himself for the many ways in which he has applied his expertise in isotope geochemistry, geochronology, geochemistry and igneous petrology to nuclear forensics - studying when and how rocks formed as well as developing new methods to determine the place of origin of nuclear materials, whether for energy production or nuclear weapons manufacture....

Attend a Graduate Defense (Boise State University)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Mar 2016
(Source. Boise State University) ... Amanda Laib. When. 10.30 a.m. Wednesday, April 20 ... Tandem LA-ICPMS and CA-TIMS U-Pb geochronology on crystals demonstrate multigenerational antecrystic growth in both the PGI and RST systems occurring over 10^4 year timescales ... Zr-in-titanite thermometry and U-Pb geochronology offer potential to recover temperature-time (T-t) histories from metamorphic rocks, which in turn can inform tectonic processes ... I....

Illuminating Earth’s past for future generations (UNSW - The University of New South Wales)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Mar 2016
(Source. UNSW - The University of New South Wales). Earth's geological history, human evolution and the diversity of ancient flora and fauna are some of the key themes being investigated by scientists in a new UNSW research centre ... 'Our vision is to illuminate Earth's past for future generations,' said Associate Professor Curnoe ... UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor Merlin Crossley said ... Earth elements and geochronology....

Celebrating 125 Years of the Ontario Geological Survey (Government of Ontario)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Mar 2016
Establishing a world-class geochronology facility in Toronto, Conducting 3D mapping of groundwater aquifers in southern Ontario, Producing mapping and till sampling data that led to the discovery of gold deposits near Fort Frances, Preparing National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts for a lunar mission, Creating nearly 14,000 ......

Celebrating 125 Years of the Ontario Geological Survey (Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Mar 2016
Establishing a world-class geochronology facility in Toronto, Conducting 3D mapping of groundwater aquifers in southern Ontario, Producing mapping and till sampling data that led to the discovery of gold deposits near Fort Frances, Preparing National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts for a lunar mission, Creating nearly 14,000 ......

The 12 iPad Apps of Christmas

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me... Sure, there may be a lot more useful gifts you could give... like a sweater. Or some socks ... WolframAlpha is programmed with thousands of algorithms and formulas to help solve a variety of problems from algebra, geometry and calculus to probability, statistics, thermodynamics, nuclear physics, chemical thermodynamics, aeronautics, psychrometrics, astrophysics, geochronology... Epoch....

Fossil analysis pushes back human split from other primates by two million years (Los Alamos ...

Edit Public Technologies 16 Feb 2016
(Source. Los Alamos National Laboratory). 'Our new research supports early divergence. 10 million years ago for the human-gorilla split and 8 million years ago for our split from chimpanzees,' said Los Alamos National Laboratory geologist and senior team member Giday WoldeGabriel ... Through fieldwork, volcanic ash chemistry and geochronology, WoldeGabriel helped nail down the age of the fossils to approximately 8 million years old ... (noodl....

Thomas Ullrich Joins Aston Bay Holdings as COO, Executive VP; Non-Brokered Private Placement Announced

Edit Stockhouse 01 Feb 2016
(via Thenewswire.ca). Vancouver, British Columbia / TheNewswire / February 1, 2016 - Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSX-V ... Mr. Ullrich has significant executive-level experience with both majors and juniors in the metals and mining industry. "We are thrilled that Mr ... Mr ... Mr. Ullrich also established the Ar-Ar geochronology lab at the University of British Columbia and studied the Candelaria Cu-Au mine, Chile, while at Queen's University. Mr ... Mr ... Mr ... ....

Precise temporal calibration of dinosaur origins [Evolution]>

Edit PNAS 19 Jan 2016
Dinosaurs have been major components of ecosystems for over 200 million years. Although different macroevolutionary scenarios exist to explain the Triassic origin and subsequent rise to dominance of dinosaurs and their closest relatives (dinosauromorphs), all lack critical support from a precise biostratigraphically independent temporal framework. The absence of robust geochronologic... ....
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