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From crystals to climate: ‘Gold standard’ timeline links flood basalts to...
Imagine an enormous volcano erupting in the Pacific Northwest, pouring lava across Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Imagine the lava flooding out until river valleys...
Unprecedented ice loss in Russian ice cap
In the last few years, the Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic has dramatically accelerated, sliding as much as 82 feet a...
Plate Tectonics
Geologists reveal ancient connection between England and France
The British mainland was formed from the collision of not two, but three ancient continental land masses, according to new research.
Scientists have for centuries...
Upper Cretaceous trench deposits of the Neo-Tethyan subduction zone
The Jiachala Formation, which was fed largely from the Gangdese arc, has long been considered to comprise syn-collisional foreland-basin deposits based on the reported...
Volcanoes
Volcano under ice sheet suggests thickening of West Antarctic ice is...
A region of West Antarctica is behaving differently from most of the continent's ice: A large patch of ice there is thickening, unlike other...
Earthquake
How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce...
Radioactivity in fracking wastewater comes from the interaction between a chemical slurry and ancient shale during the hydraulic fracturing process, according to Dartmouth College...
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Mars
Mars valleys traced back to precipitation
The surface of Mars bears imprints of structures that resemble fluvial steam networks on Earth. Scientists therefore assume that there must have been once...
Meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ expands window for when life might have existed...
The early surface of Mars consisting of a liquid magma ocean crystallized extremely rapidly, just 20 million year after the formation of the solar...
Moon
Thank the moon for Earth’s lengthening day
For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer.
A...
Magma ocean may be responsible for the moon’s early magnetic field
Around four billion years ago, the Moon had a magnetic field that was about as strong as Earth's magnetic field is today. How the...
