The disappearance of this enormous reef system represents a series of events that constitute the greater geologic history of the Michigan Basin. The Michigan Basin is a bowl-shaped region in central ...

The sedimentary geology program focuses primarily on diverse aspects of clastic basin analysis in a variety of tectonic settings. Studies are broadly integrative with other members of the faculty here ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Harrison is currently the director of the Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education, which he founded in 1982. He is interested in the Michigan basin and preservation of geological ...

Even within a basin, there can be differences in how the sediment interacts with seismic waves. "There's variability in the shaking… there's variations in the geology," says Vidale. Sediment in ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...