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The Hells Bells in the El Zapote cave near Puerto Morelos on the Yucatán Peninsula.

Unique underwater stalactites

Geology Page - November 26, 2017

In recent years, researchers have identified a small group of stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave. The...

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Study details evidence for past large earthquakes in the Eastern Tennessee...

June 27, 2017

Scientists produce best estimate of Earth’s composition

September 20, 2017

Better predictions of volcanic eruptions would help protect the lives of those living close to them. Credit: Jorge Nava - Navart/Wikimedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Unravelling the when, where and how of volcanic eruptions

January 28, 2021

Landslides after earthquake

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Lack of water likely caused extinction of isolated Alaska mammoths

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An individual of Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large armoured dinosaur species, witnesses the impact of an asteroid, falling on the Yucatán peninsula 66 million years ago. Not even its large size and thick armour sheltered its kind from the violence of this cosmic disaster. Credit: Fabio Manucci

Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs

A cartoon showing how anomalous earthquakes near the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in southern California work in regions deep below the Earth's surface.

Geoscientists find unexpected ‘deep creep’ near San Andreas, San Jacinto faults