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Research shows what it takes to be a giant shark

24 January 2019

Have you ever wondered why the Megalodon shark became to be so big? Or wondered why some other sharks are much smaller?

Cambridge team reach bedrock to complete Antarctic ice core

9 January 2019

A team of scientists and engineers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey has successfully drilled over 650 metres in to an Antarctic ice cap to obtain an ice core that will show how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet responds to warming. The team, now consisting of six people, has been at Skytrain Ice...

Liz Hide appointed as first full-time Director of the Sedgwick Museum

30 November 2018

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, the oldest of the University of Cambridge museums, has appointed its first full-time director.

Taking to the skies: measuring volcanic gas emissions using drones

19 November 2018

Many of the world’s most hazardous volcanoes are either too remote or too active to make measurements safely from the ground. Cambridge Earth Scientists are now taking to the skies to investigate the gases being released by these elusive volcanoes.

Metals mark magma for life

19 November 2018

Gases erupted by volcanoes contain various volatile metal products. New research by Marie Edmonds and Emma Liu in Cambridge and Tamsin Mather in Oxford has discovered that different kinds of volcanoes have distinctive metal ‘signatures’, which reflect differences in how their magma forms.

Dating the emplacement of the Shap granite using zircon

19 November 2018

G5a - the distinctive coarse-grained, pink granite exposed at Shap in Cumbria - has long been a favourite igneous hand specimen for Earth Sciences teaching in Cambridge. New research uses the age of zircon crystal formation to suggest a long gestation period in the mid-crust before its final emplacement 405 million years ago.

Lessons about a future warmer world using data from the past

19 November 2018

Selected intervals in the past that were as warm or warmer than today can help us understand what the Earth may be like under future global warming. A latest assessment of past warm periods, by an international team of 59 scientists from 17 nations including Cambridge Earth Sciences' Professor Eric Wolff, shows that in response to the warming ecosystems and climate zones will spatially shift and on millennial time scales ice sheets will substantially shrink.

Research shows what it takes to be a giant shark

Cambridge team reach bedrock to complete Antarctic ice core

Liz Hide appointed as first full-time Director of the Sedgwick Museum

Taking to the skies: measuring volcanic gas emissions using drones

Metals mark magma for life

Dating the emplacement of the Shap granite using zircon

Lessons about a future warmer world using data from the past

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