Dallas Abbott is a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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 of Columbia University

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 and is part of the Holocene Impact Working Group

Holocene Impact Working Group

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. The primary focus of her present research is on submarine impact crater

Impact crater

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s and their contribution to climate change

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 and megatsunami

Megatsunami

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s. She also has presented research regarding a large impact crater in the Gulf of Maine

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.

Abbott received her B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 (Earth

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 and Planetary Sciences) in 1974; her M.S. from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

The Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory is a research unit of Columbia University located on a campus in Palisades, N.Y., north of Manhattan on the Hudson River.- History :...

 of Columbia University

Columbia University

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 (Marine Geology

Marine geology

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) in 1978; and her Ph.D. from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Marine Geology with a Geophysics

Geophysics

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minor) in 1982.

Selected publications

• Did an Asteroid Impact Cause an Ancient Tsunami? - New York Times (November 14, 2006)
• Geophysical Theory. Columbia University Press (1990) ISBN 0231067925
• Heat flow results from the Gorda Ridge. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Open-file Report (1986)