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Earth's centre is out of sync

New research from RSES, ANU has revealed that the centre of the Earth is out of sync with the rest of the planet.

ANU digs deep for national rock garden

ANU has partnered with the Geological Society of Australia to establish the National Rock Garden (NRG) in Canberra, which will showcase 100 iconic rock specimens ranging in age from 4,000 million years to a few thousand years old.

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World’s Oldest Rock Art In Aus?

New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown that a large collection of Indigenous rock engravings in Western Australia could be the oldest in the world.

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10-Fold increase in Antarctic Peninsula summer ice-melt

Summer ice melting in the Antarctic Peninsula has intensified almost ten-fold in the last 600 years, with the most rapid melting occurring in the last 50, according to research from ANU and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

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Earthquakes turn water into gold

Research published in Nature Geoscience has revealed that pressure release during earthquakes can cause gold to be deposited almost instantaneously.

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Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science for RSES Director

Professor Ian Jackson has been announced as one of the 2013 Fellows elected to the Australian Academy of Sciences.

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Welcome to the Research School of Earth Sciences

Planet Earth is an amazing place - it is constantly moving and its surface is always changing. At the centre of the Earth, temperatures are as high as they are on the surface of the Sun. Over billions of years, this has caused continents to drift apart and oceans to open and close. The study of Earth and marine sciences is fundamental to our understanding of the precious balance of life on Earth and how the Solar System in which we live was formed.

Our focus is on both earth processes and environmental science. The Research School of Earth Sciences has many world leading researchers in the Earth Sciences and offers undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as Higher Degree Research opportunities.

Earth Science profiles

Dr Michael Ellwood

Research Fellow

"It would be more difficult to fertilise the oceans with nitrogen and phosphorus than with iron because the concentrations required are three orders of magnitude higher"

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Events

May

2013

RSES SEMINAR SERIES: Control of subduction zone size on overriding plate deformation

Dr. Wouter Schellart (Monash University)