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Rock stars! Rock stars! Rock stars!
Mhairi Reid, Emese Bordy, Wendy Taylor and colleagues from Stellenbosch, Cambridge and Cincinnati reconstructed an Early Devonian seabed! Dig up their articles here doi.org/10.2110/palo.2018.048 and doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy156
Explore the 3D reconstruction here!
New promotions in the Geology Department!
Congratulations to our new Associate Professors Emese Bordy and Johann Diener. Job well done!
Workshop on orogenic gold - register today!
A two-day workshop focusing on the geology and exploration for orogenic gold deposits will be held at the University of Cape Town from February 2 to 3, 2019, the weekend prior to the Mining Indaba meeting.
Get the details here!
New giant dinosaur found in South Africa!
Scientists from the University of Cape Town (UCT), University of the Witwatersrand, Oxford University, and the South African National Museum have described a plant-eating dinosaur that was the largest land animal on Earth, nearly 200 mya.
Dig up the article here!
Blue diamonds from the Earth's lower mantle
UCT Prof Steve Richardson and colleagues show that boron-bearing diamonds carry previously unrecognized mineral assemblages whose high-pressure precursors were stable in metamorphosed oceanic lithospheric slabs reaching the lower mantle.
Details here!

 

 

 
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Monday, 19 August 2019
American Geophysical Union 2018

The AGU 2018 Fall Meeting will mark another dynamic year of discovery in Earth and space science, serve as the advent of AGU’s Centennial year, and provide a special opportunity to share our science with world leaders in Washington, D.C.

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The Palaeontological Society of South Africa - Abstracts due!

Abstract due date is 15 April for the upcoming annual PSSA Conference in Stellenbosch.

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Wed, 23 Mar 2016 - 22:30

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