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Geology Page - August 25, 2016

In Cerro Colorado, located in the Ica Desert of Peru, sedimentary sequences dating back nine million years have been found to host the fossil...

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New Curtin University research on the remixing of Earth's stratified deep interior suggests that global plate tectonic processes, which played a pivotal role in the existence of life on Earth, started to operate at least 3.2 billion years ago. Credit: Professor Zheng-Xiang Li

Remixed mantle suggests early start of plate tectonics

June 17, 2020

‘Red gene’ in birds, turtles suggests dinosaurs had bird-like color vision

August 3, 2016

Amazing Giant Chocolate Geodes

April 5, 2017

An artist's impression of a New Zealand burrowing bat, Mystacina robusta, that went extinct last century.

Giant extinct burrowing bat discovered in New Zealand

January 10, 2018

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First Explanations for Boundary Within Earth’s Mantle

Three water-filled maars in the Eifel, Germany (Gemündener Maar, Weinfelder Maar, Schalkenmehrener Maar). Created by volcanic activity, maars are also found in other parts of Europe and on other continents, but Eifel-Maars are the classic example worldwide.

New hints of volcanism under the heart of northern Europe

Breaking the strongest link triggered big Baja earthquake