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Most of Earth’s carbon was hidden in the core during its...
Carbon is essential for life as we know it and plays a vital role in many of our planet's geologic processes -- not to...
How the Bungle Bungles got their stripes
Their distinctive stripes made Purnululu world famous and have helped the striking sandstone formations survive for generations.
The story of the Bungle Bungles begins about...
Plate Tectonics
Geologists find lost fragment of ancient continent in Canada’s North
Sifting through diamond exploration samples from Baffin Island, Canadian scientists have identified a new remnant of the North Atlantic craton—an ancient part of Earth's...
Building blocks for life on Earth arrived much later than we...
Ancient rocks from Greenland have shown that the elements necessary for the evolution of life did not come to Earth until very late in...
Volcanoes
Tree rings could pin down Thera volcano eruption date
Charlotte Pearson's eyes scanned a palm-sized chunk of ancient tree. They settled on a ring that looked "unusually light," and she made a note...
Earthquake
Sediments may control location, magnitude of megaquakes
The world's most powerful earthquakes strike at subduction zones, areas where enormous amounts of stress build up as one tectonic plate dives beneath another....
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Solving fossil mystery could aid quest for ancient life on Mars
The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks on Earth.
Research which suggests that structures previously...
Mars once had salt lakes similar to those on Earth
Mars once had salt lakes that are similar to those on Earth and has gone through wet and dry periods, according to an international...
Moon
Formation of the moon brought water to Earth
The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large...
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have...
