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Columbia University Community Celebrates Four MacArthur 'Genius Awards'.
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Byline: Columbia University
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation celebrates its 25th year of grantmaking, four members of the Columbia University community have been honored with MacArthur Fellowships, also known as "Genius Awards." They include: Pedro Sanchez, director of tropical agriculture at the Earth Institute and 2002 World Food Prize recipient; Sarah Sze, adjunct associate professor of visual arts at the School of the Arts; Anders Winroth, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) '96; and Lydia Davis, ...
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Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence of Color, Say Yale Scientists; Bird fossil from the Oligocene epoch, approximately 30 million years old.
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; ...of Color, Say Yale Scientists; Bird fossil from the Oligocene epoch, approximately 30 million years old.(C)1994...arrows). In another fossil of a bird from the Eocene Epoch -- 55 million years ago -- in Denmark there were similar...
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Discussion on the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in the UK
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...write: Recognition of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in the Hampshire Basin...been debated since naming of the Oligocene Epoch in 1854. Previously, this was...their placement of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary and associated events...
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Asteroid origin of the Everglades?
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...at the end of the Eocene epoch. However, at least one crater...million years ago, during the Oligocene epoch, dipped under the southern...during the next epoch, the Oligocene, when the sea level dropped...world warmed at the end of the Oligocene, coral reefs began to form...
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Discovery of a fossilized giant rhino bone defies isolation of Anatolia
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...million years ago (during the Oligocene epoch), has now been shaken after an...rhinocerotoid bone dating from the Oligocene epoch (a period corresponding...Pakistan). Thus, during the Oligocene epoch, Anatolia was not isolated...
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Fossil facts and time line.(The Gazette (Colorado Springs))
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...Tertiary period: Paleocene Epoch, 65 million years ago. Great...primitive mammals. _Eocene Epoch, 54 million years ago: Mountains...primitive horses appeared. _Oligocene Epoch, 38 million years ago...primitive horses appeared. _Oligocene Epoch, 38 million years ago...
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Paleontology in the National Park Service.
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...huge volcanic ashfalls that covered an Oligocene lake and its surrounding, subtropical forest. The Oligocene epoch lies between the Eocene and Miocene...early paleontologists theorized that the Oligocene paleoelevation was actually 5,000...
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Has Earth entered a new age?(earth)
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
; ...is currently in the Holocene epoch. The Holocene is a period of...vaulted the planet into another epoch. The burning of fossil fuels...Era Age of mammals Paleocene Epoch Tertiary began 65 million years...Epoch began 56 million years ago Oligocene Epoch began 34 million years...
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The Palaeogene forearc basin of the Eastern Alps and Western Carpathians: subduction erosion and basin evolution
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...from the Paleocene to the Late Oligocene epoch illustrate west to east migration...almost contiguous set of Eocene-Oligocene basins have been preserved along...thermal overprint by adjacent mid-Oligocene dykes and tonalite intrusions...
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Prehistoric global cooling caused by CO2, research finds.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science
; ...occurred at the end of the Eocene epoch, the Earth was warm and wet...records this as the beginning of the Oligocene epoch, but the cause of the cooling...sharp drop in CO2 near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, we are establishing...
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Seafloor fossils to reconstruct Earth's climates up to 250 million years ago.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...from the greenhouse climate of the Eocene epoch to the "icehouse" or glacial conditions of the Oligocene epoch approximately 33.5 million years ago...boundary between the late Eocene to the early Oligocene is a striking example of rapid climate...
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