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Ancient mountain formation and monsoons helped create a modern biodiversity hotspot

Geology Page - August 6, 2020

Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

Discovery of ancient super-eruptions indicates the Yellowstone hotspot may be waning

These are figures from the Nature Geoscience groundwater aquifer paper. Credit: Wallis et al

River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic

The image shows a thermokarst lake in Alaska. Thermokarst lakes form in the Arctic when permafrost thaws. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA flights detect millions of Arctic methane hotspots

Aerial view of the acidic hot springs in the shallow water of the Taiwanese Kueishantao volcanic island, visible through the whitish discoloration of the sea water by sulphur. Credit: Mario Lebrato, Uni Kiel

Life under extreme conditions at hot springs in the ocean

Hot spot at Hawaii? Not so fast

Geology Page - August 18, 2017

Project Hotspot

Geology Page - April 6, 2017

Global hot spot maps link consumers with impacts

Geology Page - November 4, 2016

Hot Larvae: Calculating Dispersal from Unique Submarine Hot Spring Ecosystems

Geology Page - March 21, 2016

Hotspots of small swimming marine organisms may contribute to mixing

Geology Page - January 16, 2016

CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots

Geology Page - September 2, 2015

Fjords Bare hotspots

Fjords are ‘hotspots’ in global carbon cycling

Geology Page - May 5, 2015

Ancient Rocks Reveal Hot Spot of Sulfur-Breathing Bacteria

Geology Page - November 6, 2014

Site of mega-development project in Mexico is a biodiversity hotspot

Geology Page - May 20, 2014

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One of the tiny fossilized teeth recovered from Galagadon, so named for the shape of its teeth, which resemble the spaceships in the video game Galaga. Credit: Copyright Terry Gates

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