The Mines wrestling squad took to the mat this weekend in their final team competition of the season in the RMAC championships. The two-day event also coincided with the NCAA West Regional Championships, in which several Orediggers competed for individual honors.
The Lady Oredigger basketball team took to the court for the final time this regular season Saturday night in Lakewood, competing against Colorado Christian University. Not able to complete the season on a winning note as hoped, Mines fell to the Cougars 65-53.
The Colorado School of Mines track and field teams headed for Alamosa, Colorado in search of provisional’s and all-conference distinction. The RMAC Championship lasted two days from Friday to Saturday.
The tenth ranked Colorado School of Mines men’s basketball team squared off against Colorado Christian on Saturday in Lakewood for their final regular season game of the year. The Orediggers (23-3, 19-3 RMAC) defeated the Cougars by a score of 110 to 69. With the win, the Orediggers clinch the two seed in the RMAC tournament and will play their first round game on Tuesday the 4 at 7 p.m in Lockridge arena.
The Oredigger golf team kicked off the 2014 season earlier this week taking on 16 other schools in San Bernardino, California at the Coyote Classic. The No. 25 ranked Mines squad faced stiff competition, and left the tournament with an eleventh place finish out of 17 competing schools. Michael Lee was CSM’s highest finishing individual golfer, end the event tied for 18 place at +8.
The Colorado School of Mines played a double header on Friday, because of the impending weather that would be hitting the state on Saturday and Sunday. The Orediggers played Regis twice on Friday, and walked away with a split. Regis won the first game, 9-4 and Mines won the second game 8-4.
Everyone has that one movie they watched over and over again as kids, and sometimes the viewing ended in rewinding, for DVDs had not become wide-spread yet in the 90’s. This week, Minds at Mines asked, “What was your favorite movie from your childhood?”
Dr Ken Ridgway of Purdue University and, previously, Chevron, spoke on a unique subduction zone in south-central Alaska. Here, in a situation similar to that at the Ontong Java Trench in the southwestern Pacific, a large oceanic plateau is subducting under the continent. Because the majority of oceanic crust is relatively thin and dense, it readily slides under continental crust, which is thicker and more buoyant. When a thick deposit of undersea lavas reaches a subduction zone, however, it causes problems, since such volcanic provinces are different from normal oceanic crust. Such a situation is called “flat slab subduction” because of the tendency of the subducting crust to go under the continent at a much shallower angle than normal.
The Clean Rivers Project is a multi-billion-dollar endeavour, projected to run until 2025, to stop sewer overflow during storms from going into the three rivers that flow through the D.C. area, which is the current destination for sewer overflow for a third of the region. It will also help mitigate extreme flooding from even relatively minor storm events. The slowest-moving of the rivers concerned, the Anacostia, is being tackled first. Four major CSO tunnels are being constructed, at a cost of $3.5 billion, to tie into and divert storm overflow from the city’s sewers.
Jack Hills, Australia – A piece of zircon discovered in an outcrop on a sheep farm in Western Australia has been discovered to been discovered to be the oldest unchanging piece of earth discovered, at an age of 4.4 billion years. John Valley, the geoscience professor from the University of Wisconsin who led the research, claims that this could imply that the planet was capable of sustaining earth 4.3 billion years ago where the earliest fossils are 3.4 billion years old, implying life-sustaining temperatures earlier than previously thought.