2020年11月30日 · The articles put Pannotia on trial. Evans, the head of Berkeley College, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, and director of the Yale Paleomagnetism Laboratory, took the role of prosecutor; Nance, professor emeritus of geology at Ohio University and a visiting research fellow at Yale, was part of Pannotia’s defense.

2018年8月9日 · Nance, who “first proposed the concept of a global supercontinent cycle” along with fellow OHIO researcher Tom Worsley, has a new study that “offers a panoply of evidence for an often-overlooked supercontinent thought to have formed after Rodinia and before Pangea, called Pannotia, whose existence has long been in question,” says an ...

2022年8月12日 · The break up of one putative supercontinent, Pannotia, and formation of another, Pangea, “were facilitated by subduction [the return of the ocean floor to Earth’s interior] and seafloor spreading [the creation of new ocean floor] at the leading and trailing edges of the North American plate and Gondwana [the united southern continents ...

2021年3月26日 · Yale News covers the debate about the existence of supercontinent Pannotia, posited by R. Damian Nance, in an article headlined Pannotia: A supercontinent on trial. Nance, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geology at Ohio University, is now a visiting fellow at Yale. In separate articles published recently by The Geological Society […]

2020年11月2日 · Yale News covers the debate about the existence of supercontinent Pannotia, posited by R. Damian Nance, in an article headlined Pannotia: A supercontinent on trial. Nance, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geology at Ohio University, is now a visiting fellow at Yale. In separate articles published recently by The Geological Society […]

2019年2月2日 · The Department of Geological Sciences and the Geological Sciences Alumni Advisory Board present a symposium discussing “Megatrends in Geosciences” on Friday, March 29, and Saturday, March 30. The 2019 Geological Sciences Alumni Symposium is March 29-30, 2019, on the Athens Campus. Registration is free and open to all alumni and […]

2018年8月31日 · Dr. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, has been invited to give keynotes at major meetings on three continents about an article in which he provides evidence for the existence of Pannotia, a supercontinent predating Pangea by 300 million years. The article garnered widespread interest both here […]

2021年10月19日 · Geologic Community Honors Damian Nance When Distinguished Professor Emeritus Damian Nance took early retirement from the Ohio University Geological Sciences Department in 2018—after 38 years at Ohio University and an academic career spanning 44 years, colleagues from all over the world came together to mark the occasion and pay tribute […]

2019年10月9日 · The event, entitled “Pannotia to Pangea: Paleozoic orogenic cycles in the circum-North Atlantic Region: A Celebration of the Career of Damian Nance,” was a two-day international symposium organized by Brendan Murphy (Canada), Rob Strachan (United Kingdom) and Cecilio Quesada (Spain) that brought together 33 speakers from the USA, …

2018年3月2日 · Ohio University geologist Dr. Damian Nance identifies evidence for Pannotia, a supercontinent predating Pangea, by examining the patterns of worldwide mountain building and rifting as the Earth’s land masses collide and break up, along with accompanying destruction and creation of climates and habitats in the wake of those tectonic changes.