Geologists from Curtin Malaysia have dated a grain of zircon at 4.2 billion years old, making it the second-oldest rock ever discovered, behind another rock also found by Curtin geologists in 2001.
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Paleoclimatologist Sarah Crump is literally digging up the past to predict how the Arctic may be affected by future climate change.
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The rocks bear striking similarities to those found in North America, suggesting that part of northern Australia was actually part of North America 1.7 million years ago.
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Curtin researchers are exploring better ways to combine seismic and electromagnetic methods for deep subsurface exploration all over the world.
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Expert meteorite hunter and planetary geologist Professor Phil Bland from the Western Australian School of Mines talks with Cite about what exactly is involved in tracking and recovering a meteorite.
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Two Curtin University researchers have been featured on the esteemed Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list 2014
By Courtney Schuur | Feature; Research; Engineering and mining | 1 commentResearch on a Martian meteorite has revealed clues on the evolution of the earliest crust and atmosphere of Mars, in a report published this week in the journal Nature.
By Megan Meates | Research; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Engineering and mining; IT and computing; Physical sciences and mathematicsResearch led by Curtin University geologists has uncovered a wealth of new evidence in the mineral zircon from lunar rock samples recovered during NASA’s Apollo missions, revealing indisputable proof of meteorite collisions on the Moon.
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Curtin researchers have discovered a mineral previously thought to be unique to the Moon in rock taken from the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
By Jarrad Long | Research; Physical sciences and mathematics | Leave a commentA Curtin researcher and team of experts from around the world have discovered that the earliest rocks in our Solar System are more like candy floss than the hard rock we know today.
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