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An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible

Geology Page - August 14, 2019

Clues to the Earth’s ancient core

Image depicts the change in impact rate modeled in this paper. Some of the craters used in the study on both the moon and Earth are highlighted in the background. Credit: Data from NASA GSFC / LRO / Arizona State University; Artwork by Rebecca Ghent

Scientists find increase in asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying the Moon

Researchers find sulfur reducers were at work on the early Earth

This image shows a visual representation of one of the highest-energy neutrino detections superimposed on a view of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole

How the Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks

Ancient ice reveals vital clues about Earth’s past climate

Geology Page - August 10, 2016

New Kind of Metal in the Deep Earth

Geology Page - December 21, 2011

Magnetic oceans and electric Earth

Geology Page - October 4, 2016

Heat from earth’s core could be underlying force in plate tectonics

Geology Page - January 18, 2017

New Test Adds to Scientists’ Understanding of Earth’s History, Resources

Geology Page - December 11, 2012

This illustration shows how the changes in the electromagnetic properties of xenon, iron, and nickel under these intense pressures allow for the formation of XeFe3 and XeNi3.

Do you know where your xenon is?

Geology Page - March 1, 2018

New ‘geospeedometer’ confirms super-eruptions have short fuses

Geology Page - October 20, 2015

How far did sea level rise? It’s no walk-on-the-beach calculation

Geology Page - November 3, 2016

Earth’s Core Affects Length of Day

Geology Page - July 11, 2013

Intensity at Earth's surface (left) and radial field (Br) at the CMB (right).

Earth’s magnetic field is not about to reverse

Geology Page - May 7, 2018

Earthquakes Generate Big Heat in Super-Small Areas

Geology Page - November 7, 2011

Cracking open diamonds for messages from the deep earth

Geology Page - August 25, 2015

Quartz analysis

Yosemite granite ‘tells a different story’ story about Earth’s geologic history

Geology Page - June 30, 2018

Panhandle of Texas

The origins of the High Plains landscape

Geology Page - September 27, 2018

Bubbles of liquid carbon dioxide float out of the seafloor at a vent on Northwest Eifuku volcano off the coast of Japan.

How undersea gases once helped superheat our planet

Geology Page - February 16, 2019

Biggest exposed fault on Earth discovered

Geology Page - November 29, 2016

Artist depiction of the MMS spacecraft that provided the first view of magnetic reconnection. Credit: NASA/GSFC

Scientists Help Provide First-Ever Views of Elusive Energy Explosion

Geology Page - November 17, 2018

What percent of Earth is water?

Geology Page - December 3, 2014

Canadian Rocky Mountains

Study provides new insight into origin of Canadian Rockies

Geology Page - June 9, 2019

The oldest crystals in the world

Geology Page - May 6, 2016

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Giant ‘great valley’ found on Mercury

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American Mammoth

Modern humans vs. giant animals

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A nematode (eukaryote) in a biofilm of microorganisms. This unidentified nematode (Poikilolaimus sp.) from Kopanang gold mine in South Africa, lives 1.4 km below the surface. Credit: Gaetan Borgonie, Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium

Life in Deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of...

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First 3-D pterosaur eggs found with their parents

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