The students were part of a 21-person contingent on an eight-day field trip to the Yucatán Peninsula to study carbonate geology and aqueous geochemistry. The students pictured above are Rosemary Bush, ...

Nearly every state has limestone, gypsum and other soft rocks that are susceptible to a collapse. "In 99% of all cases, sinkholes pop up in carbonate rocks (like limestone or dolomite) or ...

The changing patterns of rainfall and snowmelt, when recharging ground water in karstified carbonate rocks, can be captured in speleothems via the hydrological behaviour of the drips. In many ...

Dr. Kaczmarek is an associate professor of geology and head of the Carbonate Petrology & Characterization Laboratory at Western Michigan University. He is a sedimentary petrologist with a research ...