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Geology

Engineering Geology

Geology Page - April 17, 2019

Volcanoes

New evidence suggests volcanoes caused biggest mass extinction ever

Geology Page - April 17, 2019

Fossils

Coelacanth reveals new insights into skull evolution

Geology Page - April 17, 2019

The best-preserved fossil of the group includes the skull, forelimbs, part of a backbone and a partial hind limb of a small, juvenile frog now known as Electrorana limoae.

Fossils

Small fossils with big applications – BP Gulf of Mexico time scale

Geology Page - April 17, 2019

Engineering Geology

Geology Page - April 17, 2019

How Are Diamonds Cut?

Geology Page - April 16, 2019

Where Are Gold Mines In The United States?

Geology Page - April 16, 2019

Earth

Nepal expedition to remeasure height of Everest

Geology Page - April 11, 2019

Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said Monday, hoping to quash persistent speculation that...

Rocks with banded iron formations and biosignatures - 1,900 million years old, Michigan, US (top left), 2,700 million years old, Ontario, Canada (bottom left) and 2,500 million years old, Karijini National Park, Western Australia (right).

Earth

Tracking records of the oldest life forms on Earth

Geology Page - April 11, 2019

The discovery provides a new characteristic 'biosignature' to track the remains of ancient life preserved in rocks which are significantly altered over billions of...

Deep below the Earth in the Tonga-Fiji region of the South Pacific, one enormous earthquake triggered another.

Massive earthquakes provide new insight into deep Earth

March 28, 2019

Cool Earth theory sheds more light on diamonds

March 26, 2019

Cross-sections of Earth’s mantle down to 1,400 km depth showing changes in its flow as ancient ocean beds fall into Earth’s deep interior.

Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically

March 26, 2019

Earth's mantle (dark red) lies below the crust (brown layer near the surface) and above the outer core (bright red).

The solid Earth breathes

March 26, 2019

Plate Tectonics

plate tectonics

What are the different types of plate tectonic boundaries?

Geology Page - March 30, 2019

What are Plate Boundaries? Plate boundaries are the edges where two plates meet. Most geologic activities, including volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain building, take place at...

Geologic time scale

K-T Boundary “Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary”

Geology Page - March 30, 2019

What is K-T Boundary? The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, now called the Cretaceous–Palaeogene extinction event. It may be called the K/T extinction event or K/Pg event...

K-Pg Boundary “Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary”

March 30, 2019

The solid Earth breathes

March 26, 2019

Explosive volcanic crater (maar) with small lake at the bottom close to Dilo

New light into the recent evolution of the African rift valley

March 22, 2019

Over the last 540 million years, as the Earth's tectonic plates have shifted, MIT researchers have found that periods of major tectonic activity (orange lines) in the tropics (green belt) were likely triggers for ice ages during those same periods.

Tectonics in the tropics trigger Earth’s ice ages

March 16, 2019

Volcanoes

New evidence suggests volcanoes caused biggest mass extinction ever

Geology Page - April 17, 2019

Biggest Mass Extinction Researchers say mercury buried in ancient rock provides the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes caused the biggest mass extinction in the history...

False colour electron microscope image of an internally zoned magnetite crystal in massive iron-oxide ore from El Laco in the Chilean Andes.

New research supports volcanic origin of Kiruna-type iron ores

April 13, 2019

Driving force of volcanic super-hazards uncovered

April 11, 2019

Hurricane Irma forming over the Atlantic Ocean in September 2017.

Large volcanic eruptions can alter hurricane strength and frequency

April 3, 2019

Scientists argue for more comprehensive studies of Cascade volcanoes

March 22, 2019

Earthquake

Earth

Nepal expedition to remeasure height of Everest

Geology Page - April 11, 2019

Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said Monday, hoping to quash persistent speculation that...

$hydraulic fracturing for shale gas$

Damaging Sichuan earthquakes linked to fracking operations

April 7, 2019

Crowdsourcing speeds up earthquake monitoring

April 3, 2019

California’s current earthquake hiatus is an unlikely pause

April 3, 2019

Signs of 1906 earthquake revealed in mapping of offshore northern San...

March 28, 2019

Top Spots For Gem Hunting In The US

December 24, 2016

Top 10 Toxic Minerals

September 25, 2016

Biggest, Deepest and Devastating Sinkholes around the World

November 21, 2016

+20 Strange Geological Formations On Earth

April 14, 2018

Biggest Stone Ball in Europe just Discovered in Bosnia

January 1, 2017

Mohs Hardness Scale

April 6, 2016

Videos

Debris Flow Dynamics

Geology Page - February 19, 2019

Sampling Hot Molten Lava

Geology Page - January 14, 2019

Bismuth Crystal “Artificially grown bismuth crystal”

Geology Page - January 14, 2019

Paleontology

Coelacanth reveals new insights into skull evolution

April 17, 2019

Small fossils with big applications – BP Gulf of Mexico time...

April 17, 2019

Fossilized skull parts from ancient elephant relatives

Ancient ‘Texas Serengeti’ had elephant-like animals

April 13, 2019

Research that reveals what lies at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean -- the Mariana Trench

Unique oil-eating bacteria found in world’s deepest ocean trench, Mariana Trench

April 13, 2019

Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin found in Korea

April 11, 2019

Fossils

Coelacanth reveals new insights into skull evolution

April 17, 2019

Small fossils with big applications – BP Gulf of Mexico time...

April 17, 2019

Ancient ‘Texas Serengeti’ had elephant-like animals

April 13, 2019

Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin found in Korea

April 11, 2019

‘Cthulhu’ fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers

April 11, 2019

Dinosaurs

Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin found in Korea

April 11, 2019

lambeosaurine (crested 'duck-billed' dinosaur)

First-confirmed occurrence of a lambeosaurine dinosaur found on Alaska’s North Slope

April 3, 2019

66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

March 30, 2019

World’s Biggest Tyrannosaurus rex

March 22, 2019

Mammals’ unique arms started evolving before the dinosaurs existed

March 19, 2019

Minerals

Thunder Egg

Geology Page - October 19, 2016

Malachite

Geology Page - September 1, 2016

Platinum

Geology Page - April 25, 2015

Gold

Geology Page - April 19, 2015

Geology Software

Remote Sensing Downloader

Geology Page - December 29, 2015

SAGA GIS – System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses

December 15, 2015

QGIS “Version 2.10.1”

October 24, 2015

ParaView “Open Source Visualization For Geoscience”

August 27, 2015

Surfer 13

July 21, 2015

Mars

Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

Geology Page - April 3, 2019

The mystery of methane on Mars may finally be solved as scientists Monday confirmed the presence of the life-indicating gas on the Red Planet...

Mars

Naturally occurring ‘batteries’ fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars

Geology Page - November 1, 2018

Mars' organic carbon may have originated from a series of electrochemical reactions between briny liquids and volcanic minerals, according to new analyses of three...