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Mark Jellinek

Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers

A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars’s surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought, according to new UBC research.

Aug 3, 2020

The Sabancaya volcano erupts against a blue sky in the Peruvian Andes, about 90 kilometres as the condor flies from the city of Arequipa. Courtesy: Colin Rowell and Johan Gilchrist

Vital volcano insights come at a cost during UBC scientists’ summer expedition

It started out like the camping trip from hell, but it turned into the research expedition of a lifetime for three University of British Columbia volcanologists.

Oct 1, 2018

Oscillating “plug” of magma causes tremors that forecast volcanic eruptions: UBC research

University of British Columbia geophysicists are offering a new explanation for seismic tremors accompanying volcanic eruptions that could advance forecasting of explosive eruptions such as recent events at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, Chaiten Volcano in Chile, and Mount St. Helens in Washington State.

Feb 25, 2011

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