Researchers in core viewing lab (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Researchers in core viewing lab

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Research Professors Zoltán Sylvester (left) and Jacob Covault in the core viewing facility at The University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology. An algorithm they developed for correlating turbidites in geologic cores is raising questions about the earthquake record of Cascadia. Examples of turbidites from Cascadia are shown on the screen behind them. 

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The University of Texas at Austin/Jackson School of Geosciences.

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