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The Toba caldera was the site of a massive super-eruption 75,000 years ago.

Time between world-changing volcanic super-eruptions less than previously thought

Parkfield Segment, San Andreas fault

Parkfield segment of San Andreas fault may host occasional large earthquakes

Mount Etna in Italy

Eruption clues: Researchers create snapshot of volcano plumbing

The post-2008 seismicity has occurred both in areas that were seismically active before 2008 (for example, the Mississippi embayment) and in regions with no pre-2008 historical or instrumental seismicity (for example, FWB).

Research shows North Texas earthquakes occurring on ‘dead’ faults

Depiction of Anchiornis and its contour feather.

Feathered dinosaurs were even fluffier than we thought

Following a large caldera-forming eruption some magma remains in the magma reservoir.

When magma prevents volcanic eruptions

Two skulls of the new genus Haringtonhippus from Nevada (upper) and Texas (lower).

New Genus of Extinct Horses in North America

Time slices of the computational geodynamic model showing dripping continental root and eventual surface uplift over a 4.5 million year period across Turkey's Central Anatolian Plateau

Geophysicists uncover new evidence for an alternative style of plate tectonics

A femur bone from the decayed body of a purported Yeti found in a cave in Tibet

Abominable Snowman? Nope. Study ties DNA samples from purported Yetis to...

Atlantic and Pacific Ocean DO NOT MIX

Mount Etna in Italy

A Series of Fortunate Events: Antarctic Zircons Tell Story of Early...

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

shell of a fossil planktic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber.

Decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide key to ancient climate transition

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

Unique underwater stalactites

The mantle beneath Earth's mid-oceanic ridges contains heterogeneous blobs of material

Research reveals the scale at which Earth’s mantle composition varies

A Geological Map of England and Wales’, 1819, George Bellas Greenough (1778-1855)

Going underground: Cambridge digs into the history of geology with landmark...

Tephras -- rock fragments and particles ejected by a volcanic eruption.

Climate change could increase volcano eruptions

The movement of seismic waves through the material of the mantle allows scientists to image Earth's interior, just as a medical ultrasound allows technicians to look inside a blood vessel

Mysterious deep-Earth seismic signature explained

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

The hydrothermal circulation changes the ocean crust and increases the Chlorine (CL) concentration of the rocks by incorporation of sea water

Water cooling for the Earth’s crust

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