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07/03/2010
Confirmed: the Chicxulub impact caused the K/T extinction
Members of the IUCA and the Team of Micropaleontology of the Universidad de Zaragoza, along with 38 other specialists, publish in the prestigious Journal
Science a review corroborating the theory that the impact of a large meteorite in the Yucatan peninsula caused the mass extinction event of the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. The alternative hypothesis supporting a more gradual extinction due to multiple causes (mainly to the unusual volcanic activity of the Deccan, India) is weakened.
Download PDF06/06/2009
Lecture on the Chicxulub impact
In the I Jornadas de Paleontología Comarca de Tierras Altas (Soria), José Antonio Arz lectured on "Chicxulub: the death fell from the sky"
Download PDF17/01/2012
New causes of the extinction that occurred in the oceans after an asteroid impact 65 million years ago
The study, published by Laia Alegret, Ellen Thomas and Kyger C. Lohmann, shows that the photosynthesis and the food chain in the oceans recovered much earlier than previously suggested. A rapid episode
of surface ocean acidification after the impact may have been the main cause of
extinction of numerous species, while taxa that lived at the deep sea floor survived.
Download PDF03/10/2008
Documentary on extinction at Zumaia: Flysch, el susurro de las rocas
http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100308/flysch-susurro-rocas/713492.shtml
Download PDF04/10/2007
Eustoquio Molina, 2007 Research Award of the Royal Academy of Sciences
Interview in El Periódico with the ocassion of the scientific award.
Download PDF21/06/2007
Zumaya, the open book of the history of Earth for Paleocene Stages
The International Working Group on Paleocene met in Zumaia and decided unanimously to define the boundary stratotypes for the Selandian and Thanetian.
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A meteorite impact was the cause of the dinosaurs extinction
The extinction coincides with the meteorite impact evidence according to Eustoquio Molina, Ignacio Arenillas and José Antonio Arz.
Download PDF15/01/2018
Leonardo scholarship to Laia Alegret
The BBVA
Foundation awards its prestigious Leonardo scholarship to Laia Alegret, to
carry out her post-cruise research after participation in IODP 371 Expedition.
https://www.redleonardo.es/beneficiario/laia-alegret-badiola/
http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2017/08/15/59760ff2e5fdeab75d8b458a.html
11/03/2014
Eustoquio Molina received the prize Lupa Escéptica
Eustoquio Molina received the prize Lupa Escéptica
of science popularization and critical thinking, awarded by the cultural
association Alternativa Racional a las Pseudociencias-Sociedad para el Avance
del Pensamiento Crítico (ARP-SAPC), in March 2014.23/11/2010
Lessons with a natural history book
The joint field trip of Extinction and evolution events and Applied Micropaleontology students to visit several extinction events in Zumaya and the Montxo shipwreck was reported in Diario Vasco.
Download PDF20/09/2005
Cuban microfossils offer support for meteor role in dinosaurs extinction
The paper of the team of Micropaleontology, Alegret et al. (2005) published in Geology, was reported in the New York Times.
Download PDF15/01/2018
Laia Alegret received the Alfred Curtins Medal
The National
Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO) awards Laia Alegret the Alfred Curtins
Medal in recognition of her work as a member of the Expert Panel Sciences of the Earth and Space (2013-2015).
28/05/2005
Micropaleontologists of the University of Zaragoza show that the Mass Extinction of the K/T Boundary was sudden
News appeared in the Spanish version of National Geographic in 2005Download PDF09/02/2018
Juan Luis Arsuaga Doctor Honoris Causa
Eustoquio Molina acted as sponsor in the investidure of Juan Luis Arsuaga as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Zaragoza.
29/05/2005
The evidence of the meteorite impact
The team of Micropaleontology of the University of Saragossa confirms that a meteorite impact was the cause that trigered the extinction at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
Download PDF16/07/2010
The sea level rise will cause serious problems and even wars
Eustoquio Molina lectured in San Sebastian indicating that the world is overpopulated, people ignores the consequences of climate warming, the sea level rise will cause serious problems and even wars. Many politicians and religious leaders do nothing to stop global warming and because of that are irresponsibles.
Download PDF06/05/2010
Estratotype Golden Spikes Ceremony in Zumaia
The plates and golden spikes defining the Danian/Selandian and Selandian/Thanetian boundaries were fixed at Zumaia. Many scientists, the Mayor of Zumaia and a Basque Deputy participated in the ceremony. In the photograph Eustoquio Molina, as chairman of the ISPS, unveils the plate defining the Danian/Selandian boundary.
Download PDF15/11/2014
XXX Jornadas de Paleontología
Laia Alegret participates as invited speaker at the XXX Jornadas
de Paleontología, organised by the Spanish Society of Paleontology and
Dinópolis. After giving a lecture about, he participated in a debate on
Extinctions with Asier Hilario, moderated by Mariano Moles.
30/05/2013
Lecture on the European Geoparks Week 2013
José Antonio Arz gave a lecture in Zumaia entitled: From Zumaia to Mexico: key from extinction of the dinosaurs.
You can listen to the interview on Radio Euskadi in the Webpage:
http://www.eitb.com/es/audios/detalle/1355856/de-zumaia-mexixo-huella-extincion-dinosaurios/
Download PDF31/01/2006
Patterns and causes of evolution and extinction
The group of Micropaleontology, dinosaurs and mammals that research on evolution and extinction is reported in Tercer Milenio of Heraldo de Aragón
Download PDF15/01/2018
Full conversation of Laia Alegret with El País
You can see the full conversation of @AlegretLaia with El
País / Materia from the vessel Joides Resolution, exploring the hidden
continent, Zealandia.
https://www.facebook.com/Materia.Ciencia/videos/1484530691601163/
14/06/1999
Lecture on the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary extinction event
In the Miramon Kutxaespacio de la Ciencia (San Sebastian) Eustoquio Molina lectured on "El impacto que acabó con los dinosaurios: evidencias en Zumaia y San Sebastián"
Download PDF29/09/2009
The Ypresian/Lutetian Boundary defined
The Ypresian/Lutetian boundary has been defined at meter 167.85 of the Gorrondatxe section, near Bilbao (Spain), in a dark marly level where the nannofossil
Blackites inflatus first occurs, 48 Ma ago.
Download PDF31/12/2017
Eustoquio Molina received the Aragonia prize
Eustoquio
Molina received the Aragonia prize in recognition of his excellent career in
the field of Paleontology, awarded by Sociedad de Amigos del Museo de Ciencias
Naturales de la Universidad de Zaragoza (SAMPUZ), in December 2017.
15/01/2018
Expedition to study the hidden continent, Zealandia.
Laia
Alegret participates as staff scientist in IODP Expedition 371, aboard the
Joides Resolution. During 2 months (July 27 - September 26, 2017), they drill
sediment cores on the ocean floor in the Tasman Sea (SW Pacific) to study the
hidden continent, Zealandia, and to analyse the Paleogene climate. https://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/tasman_frontier_subduction_climate.html
15/01/2018
Laia Alegret is selected as staff scientist of IODP
Laia
Alegret is selected as staff scientist of IODP (International Ocean Discovery
Program) Expedition 371, financed with more than 12 million euros. In addition
to exploring Zealandia, the new continent, they will analyse the subduction initiation
in the Tasman Frontier, and the climate of the Paleogene. https://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/precruise/tasman/participants.html
16/05/2004
The age of the Chicxulub impact under debate
Report in Science & Vie on our results of the study of Yaxcopoil-1 drill hole which support a K/T age for the impact, and on the debate stirred up by the interpretations of the Gerta Keller, which suggest that the impact was 300,000 years before.
Download PDF27/06/2014
Evidence for global cooling in the Late Cretaceous
Temperatures dropped 7 ºC in the last 17 million years of the Cretaceous. Nature Communications published a study based on Tex
86 index, in which we have contributed in the developing an age model from planktonic foraminifera.
Download PDF11/06/2016
Eustoquio Molina was elected as a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias
Eustoquio
Molina was elected as a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias de Zaragoza in
October 2015 and made his admission speech as a numerary member, in June 2016.
Photo with the president of the Academy after the delivery of the medal and the
diploma.
06/05/2010
Lecture on dinosaur's extinction
As closure of the Academic Year 2009-2010 at the Universidad de la Experiencia in Calatayud, José Antonio Arz gave a lecture entitled: "The tragic demise of the dinosaurs"
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