Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the extinct mammal community recovered at the fossil site of Els Casots (Spain), dated around 16 million years ago, which is an example of the earliest major ...

I am a chemical sedimentologist: I study how and why chemical sediments form and lithify, with the goal of better understanding how chemical sedimentary rocks (e.g., carbonates, chert, iron formations ...