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Shocked quartz grains, with fissures filled with meltglass
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![Icebergs float of Greenland in the arctic sea.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-05/Icebergs-iStock_0.jpg?itok=fTtG4ws0)
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Explora_2005 via iStock
Legions of icebergs brought the Atlantic circulation to its knees during the last glacial period.
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Matt Perko
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McLean Echlin
The prototype of UCSB's TriBeam microscope, developed by the Tresa Pollock Lab before it was commercialized by Thermo Fisher Scientific
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![A large crescent moon shines in the early twilight over tidal mudflats.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-01/Paleoproterozoic-mudflats-DALL-E-uc-santa-barbara-cropped.jpg?itok=hoVMj2Cq)
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DALL-E, prompt by Harrison Tasoff.
A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E.
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![The surface of Lake Superior from the back of a research vessel.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/Lake-Superior-cruise-small-Alex-Phillips.jpg?itok=UkfgTBz2)
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Alexandra Phillips
The sulfate poor waters of Lake Superior could provide insights on the biochemistry of Earth's early ocean.
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![A roadcut slices through the Great Unconformity.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/Great-unconformity-small-Adrian-Tasistro-Hart.jpg?itok=2Ujnlq98)
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Adrian Tasistro-Hart
Cambrian Sawatch sandstone from the Sauk Transgression caps 1 billion-year-old Pikes Peak granite (pink) marking the Great Unconformity in a roadcut in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
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![The cover of “Mighty Bad Land” with Mount Luyendyk in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/mighty-bad-land-cover-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=Lh2U8OZT)
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Bruce Luyendyk
Peak 1070 — near one of the team’s field camps — was renamed Mount Luyendyk in honor of the author’s contribution to our knowledge of Antarctica.
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![Side-by-side headshots of Tanya Atwater, Leda Cosmides and Nelson Lichtenstein](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-05/aaas-2023-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=HRY7rV8-)
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Left to right: Tanya Atwater, Leda Cosmides and Nelson Lichtenstein