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Tectonics and Structural Geology

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Beyond Tectonics: Fishing for Continents in the Furious Fifties and Roaring Forties

and December 18, 2020
Beyond Tectonics: Fishing for Continents in the Furious Fifties and Roaring Forties
Some of the research team of IN2020_V01 in front of the bridge of the R/V Investigator (credit: Paige Maroni)

This edition of “Beyond Tectonics” is brought to you by Dr. Derya Gürer and Luca Magri. Derya is a Lecturer in Earth Sciences at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, and Luca is a PhD student at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. In early 2020, they participated in a research voyage to one of the most remote places on the plane ...[Read More]

Marguerite Thomas Williams: The US’ first black person to obtain a doctorate in Geology

August 26, 2020
Marguerite Thomas Williams: The US’ first black person to obtain a doctorate in Geology
An artists illustration of Marguerite Thomas Williams (credit: Annique van der Boon)

    On the day of Christmas Eve, five years before the turn of the century, Marguerite Thomas Williams (December 1895 – August 1991) was born. She was the youngest of her five siblings born to her parents Henry and Clara Thomas. We don’t know much about her early life. Perhaps her older brothers and sisters would take her by the hand when walking to school, maybe the family would g ...[Read More]