A slice of lunar meteorite Shisr 166 from Oman
Patrick, Franklin, and a team from Saipan deploying seismometers on the island of Pagan, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Petroglyphs, McKee Springs, Dinosaur National Monument. Spring 2011 field trip.
2.5 mile Historic Tour trail of Mammoth Cave National Park. The 3D model was created from a point cloud of over 18 million points collected by terrestrial LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging). Image courtesy of Aaron Addison.
Prof. Pasteris discovers franklinite [(Zn,Fe2+,Mn2+)(Fe3+,Mn3+)2O4], a rare mineral known only from New Jersey, in (of all places!) Houston.

In the News

April 20, 2012
Congratulations Ryan Clegg for winning best student paper competition, ASCE Earth & Space 2012 Conference, "Photometric Analysis of the Apollo Landing Sites"
April 17, 2012
Prof. McKinnon: "The Strangest Terrestrial Planet"
April 10, 2012
Seismic Antarctica
March 23, 2012
Prof. Wiens at the trench

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Photo of the Week

May 16, 2012 - Shatter cone from Crooked Creek Crater, Missouri
This shatter cone was formed in the Potosi Dolomite by the impactor that made the Crooked Creek Crater in Crawford Co., MO, 320 ± 80 million years ago.  Thanks Mike. 
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