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Natural magnesite crystal (4 microns wide).

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Faster way to make mineral to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere

Geology Page - August 16, 2018

A 3D computer model of the asthenosphere by Rice University geophysicists finds that the convective cycling and pressure-driven flow can sometimes cause the asthenosphere to move even faster than the tectonic plates riding atop it.

Atmosphere

Flow in the asthenosphere drags tectonic plates along

Localization and geometry of the "Unit 2" corresponding to the sediment body originated by the Zanclean mega flood.

Atmosphere

Scientists find new evidences of the megaflood that ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the eastern Mediterranean

the central range of Taiwan

Atmosphere

Mountain erosion may add CO2 to the atmosphere

The Pinnacles of Gunung Mulu in Borneo

Atmosphere

New source of global nitrogen discovered

A sample of 2-billion-year-old salt (pink-white recrystallized halite) with embedded fragments of calcium sulfate from a geological drill core in Russian Karelia.

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Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in ancient atmosphere

Geology Page - March 24, 2018

Ocean.

Atmosphere

Primordial oceans had oxygen 250 million years before the atmosphere

Geology Page - January 25, 2018

Rock layers in the Pongola Basin, South Africa.

Atmosphere

World’s oldest known oxygen oasis discovered

Geology Page - January 19, 2018

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Changes in Earth’s crust caused oxygen to fill the atmosphere

Geology Page - September 20, 2017

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Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere

Geology Page - March 14, 2017

Atmosphere

Study opens new questions on how the atmosphere and oceans formed

Geology Page - March 1, 2017

Atmosphere

Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?

Geology Page - December 31, 2016

Atmosphere

Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons

Geology Page - December 2, 2016

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Scientists probe underground depths of Earth’s carbon cycle

Geology Page - November 9, 2016

Atmosphere

Pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

Geology Page - November 7, 2016

Atmosphere

Megadrought risks in southwest U.S. soar as atmosphere warms

Geology Page - October 10, 2016

Atmosphere

Ice cores reveal a slow decline in atmospheric oxygen over the...

Geology Page - October 3, 2016

Atmosphere

Soil will absorb less atmospheric carbon than expected this century, study...

Geology Page - September 23, 2016

Atmosphere

Humble moss helped create our oxygen-rich atmosphere

Geology Page - August 16, 2016

Atmosphere

Buried oxygen rose to the occasion as Earth’s early atmosphere formed

Geology Page - August 2, 2016

Atmosphere

Oldest rocks in Australia unlock secrets of the atmosphere

Geology Page - June 27, 2016

Atmosphere

Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents + life

Geology Page - May 17, 2016

Atmosphere

Study pinpoints timing of oxygen’s first appearance in Earth’s atmosphere

Geology Page - May 16, 2016

Atmosphere

Cosmic dust reveals Earth’s ancient atmosphere

Geology Page - May 12, 2016

Atmosphere

Early Earth’s air weighed less than half of today’s atmosphere

Geology Page - May 10, 2016

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