About 300 million years ago, all the continents were united into the supercontinent Pangea, which over time split into Laurasia and Gondwana, and they in turn - into smaller ones. South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia separated from Gondwana. “220 million years ago, South America broke away from Africa. This is evidenced by the similarity of the...
All the five meteorites found in Republic of Tatarstan are stored at KFU’s Geological Museum, one of the richest in Russia with 430,000 items and 220 years of history – as long as the university itself. The earliest local meteorite was found in 1899 near the village of Chuvashskie Kisy – and was named as such,...
Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies and their overseas colleagues have studied the bottom sediments of Lake Shira in Khakassia, Russia, and found out how climatic and environmental conditions in the region have changed over 150 years. For this purpose, they conducted a number of geochemical, isotopic, magnetic, seismo-acoustic and radiocarbon studies of...
They were accompanied by the Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences Danis Nurgaliev. The guests familiarized themselves with the laboratories of paleomagnetism and magnetism of rocks; geochemistry, isotope and element analysis; X-ray computed tomography; petrophysical methods of geomaterials research, and others. In addition, they visited the 3D GEOCenter and the Geothermochronology Center. “Geothermochronology is an actively developing field that...
The delegation of the one top global universities included Vice-President Piao Shilong, Deputy Head of the International Cooperation Department Jiang Xiaotao, and Senior Engineer of the School of Earth and Space Sciences Li Xiaoli. They arrived to partake in ROSTKI Russia-China Forum in Kazan, where Dr Piao joined one of the panel discussions. Piao Shilong, Vice...
The event took place on 1 - 5 April. Among KFU participants were: Yevgeniya Morozova, Engineer, Center for Geothermochronology; Dilyara Favarisova, Engineer, Center for Geothermochronology; Regina Sarazieva, Engineer, Center for Geothermochronology; Dilyara Kuzina, Senior Research Associate, Laboratory of Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology and Paleomagnetism; Anastasiya Yusupova, Junior Research Associate, Laboratory of Studies of Oil and Gas Bearing Basins; Bulat Gazizulin, Laboratory Researcher, Laboratory of...
Dilyara Kuzina (Laboratory of Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology and Paleomagnetism) is among the 19 KFU winners of the latest round of Russian Science Foundation funding. Kuzina’s PhD thesis was dedicated to magnetic methods of detecting space substances in sedimental rocks; she has also partaken in an expedition for meteorites. Her new project is aimed at studying magnetic properties of...
The opening took place on 2 October. The event is devoted to the study of the modern geomagnetic field, as well as the study of the geomagnetic field in the historical and geological past, and the application of magnetism and rock paleomagnetism in various fields of science. "Each year the workshop is attended by 70 to 160...
