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"This thickened, heated crust may have made the region mechanically weaker, so that the plate boundary preferentially shifted here," explains co-author PD Dr. Jörg Geldmacher, marine geologist at GEOMAR.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

“Any sedimentary layers that are laid down at the bottom of the brine are exquisitely preserved,” says University of Miami marine geologist Sam J. Purkis.

From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2022

And the incursion seems to have begun only recently, says Eugene Domack, a marine geologist at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, who led the 2010 cruise to Palmer Deep.

From Nature • Dec. 12, 2012

“Any success will work as a trigger for other mining companies,” said Georgy Cherkashov, a Russian marine geologist and president of the International Marine Minerals Society.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2012

Scientists have proposed several hypotheses for the climate shift that struck east Africa, said Peter deMenocal, a marine geologist and geochemist at Columbia University in New York.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 18, 2012