Camilo Montes, new head of the Geology department published in PLOS ONE
Paricutin volcano is the youngest and one of the best studied monogenetic volcanoes from the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field, with an excellent historical record of the nine years of eruptive activity […]
The 2015 Gorkha earthquake provided new information on the MHT that has led us to develop a new structural model of this fault consistent with the regional geology. I will […]
Two things must be true for chemotrophic microbes to gain chemical energy from their environment. First, there must be a source of energy, provided by compounds in differing oxidation states […]
There are two histories for the coevolution of Earth’s chemistry and life throughout geological time. One is recorded in rocks and the other is encoded in the genomes of extant […]
Ecuador has a great diversity of lakes in the paramo, the inter-Andean region, the Amazon Rainforest and Galapagos. Lakes serve as “time capsules” that accumulate in the sediments fossil diatoms, […]