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Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life

Geology Page - May 20, 2018

pillow basalts from undersea volcanic eruptions,

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

This is a Wyoming portion of The Phosphoria Formation, a deposit that stretches across several states in the western United States and is the largest source of phosphorus fertilizer in the country

Less life: Limited phosphorus recycling suppressed early Earth’s biosphere

Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from the Herschel Observatory.

Space dust may transport life between worlds, research suggests

Trilobite, Ordovician fossils

Oxygen levels link to ancient explosion of life, researchers find

Is there life on Mars?

Geology Page - June 22, 2016

Losing genes and surviving: When ‘less is more’ in the evolution...

Geology Page - June 18, 2016

Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life

Geology Page - May 28, 2016

Violent young Sun may have seeded life on Earth: study

Geology Page - May 24, 2016

Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents + life

Geology Page - May 17, 2016

Comet craters — literal melting pots for life on Earth

Geology Page - May 5, 2016

How and why single cell organisms evolved into multicellular life

Geology Page - April 26, 2016

Wealth of unsuspected new microbes expands tree of life

Geology Page - April 12, 2016

When life returned after a volcanic mass extinction

Geology Page - April 9, 2016

Supernovae showered Earth with radioactive debris

Geology Page - April 7, 2016

Early Earth may have been ice cold

Geology Page - March 18, 2016

Young sun-like star shows a magnetic field was critical for life...

Geology Page - March 17, 2016

Oxygen was present in the atmosphere much earlier than previously assumed

Geology Page - February 20, 2016

Oxygen-starved oceans held back life’s recovery after the ‘Great Dying’

Geology Page - February 18, 2016

Modern microbial ecosystems provide window to early life on Earth

Geology Page - February 5, 2016

Examining how terrestrial life’s building blocks may have first formed

Geology Page - February 4, 2016

Nearing the limits of life on Earth

Geology Page - January 20, 2016

Enough oxygen on Earth long before animals rose

Geology Page - January 6, 2016

Life exploded on Earth after slow rise of oxygen

Geology Page - December 19, 2015

Geologists focus on mineral for clues to beginning of biological life...

Geology Page - December 16, 2015

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Supernovae showered Earth with radioactive debris

Magma erupting at the Holuhraun lava field in August 2014. Credit: Bob White

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