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Cracking the core’s secrets (15.06.2010)
Analytical investigations of the Barberton Scientific Drill core are now in full swing. Back in summer 2008 scientists from CGB and the Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON), at the University of Cape Town, S Africa extracted 800m of drill core containing rock material from the early Archean, a very important but little studied period in early Earth’s history.
Research cruises 2010 (14.06.2010)
The final details are being organized for this summer’s research cruises.
Phd Defence - Christine Euler (09.06.2010)
Christine Euler defended her PhD-thesis 18. June 2010, at the Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen
Are We Martians? (07.06.2010)
Studies of the earliest life forms on Earth can provide insights into how to look for traces of possible life on Mars.