Smith Lecture: William Guenthner
Crystals to Cratons: Kinetics and Applications of Zircon (U-Th)/He Deep Time Thermochronology
Zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe) thermochronology has been extensively used to study the timing and rates of cooling associated with rock exhumation...
Van der Voo Lecture: David Evans
Finding Supercontinents in the Abyss of Time
Mobility of tectonic plates has resulted in amalgamations of supercontinents every ~700 million years for at least the latter half of Earth...
Smith Lecture: Tammo Reichgelt
Global Greening During the Cenozoic: Fossil evidence for terrestrial biosphere expansion in ancient greenhouse worlds
Global greening refers to expansion of the terrestrial biosphere as a result of changes in atmospheric chemistry. There are three main ways...