Home Authors Posts by Geology Page

Geology Page

Geology Page
6455 POSTS 0 COMMENTS
Genyornis eggshell recently exposed by wind erosion of sand dune in which it was buried, South Australia. Credit: Gifford Miller

First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds, ancient proteins...

Tooth size comparison between extinct Early Pliocene Otodus megalodon tooth and a modern great white shark. © MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology

Great white sharks may have contributed to megalodon extinction

Earth

Earth’s core: Unexpected flow behavior in liquid metals

Middle: Microscopic plankton cell-wall coverings preserved as “ghost” fossil impressions, pressed into the surface of ancient organic matter (183 million years old). Th

Scientists have discovered a new type of fossilization

Molten lava from a Hawaiian volcano. Image: Willyam/Adobe

Puzzling features deep in Earth’s interior illuminated

Puna Plateau (© Mitchall d'Arcy)

Which forces control the elevation of mountains?

volcanoes

Arc volcanoes are wetter than previously thought, with scientific and economic...

Examples of radiolarians, a type of microplankton. These tiny lifeforms need normal salinity seawater with plenty of nutrients including silica to grow and maintain their glassy shells. Researchers at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics found fossilized radiolarians in geologic samples dating back 56 million years, proving that life persisted in the Gulf of Mexico despite global warming that left many oceans barren. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Research shows how Gulf of Mexico escaped ancient mass extinction

Examining ocean floors key to minerals needed for renewable energy. Image: Supplied

Ancient ocean floors could help in the search for critical minerals

Tectonic map of the Alaska subduction zone

The link between temperature, dehydration and tectonic tremors in Alaska

Partial skull of Maehary bonapartei (CAPPA/UFSM 0300), left side, highlighting the maxilla. Photo: Rodrigo Temp Müller.

A new 225-million-year-old reptile from Brazil

One of the strombolian explosions that have occurred at Stromboli about every 10 minutes for at least 2000 years. © UNIGE, Luca Caricchi

Volcanoes at fault if the Earth slips

The fossil of Jurassic lizard Eichstaettisaurus. Credit: Jorge Herrera Flores

Researchers discover overlooked Jurassic Park of lizards

The large, woody fruits of the Manicaria saccifera palm that depend on large animals for their dispersal. (Picture: John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

Dinosaur extinction changed plant evolution

Creative destruction: a thinner ocean plate sides under a continental plate, melting and recycling the ocean crust into the Earth’s interior and birthing volcanoes in this illustration of subduction, a consequence of modern plate tectonics. A new study reports evidence of a transition in multiple locations around the world, 3.8-3.6 billion years ago, from stable “protocrust” to pressures and processes that look a lot like modern subduction, suggesting a time when plates first got moving. Credit: Nikolas Midttun, CC-BY

Earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics found in 3.8-billion-year-old crystal

Map shows location of the Shumagin Gap, location of the 2020 Simeonof and 2021 Chignik earthquakes. Map courtesy Alaska Earthquake Center.

Major 2020 Alaska quake triggered neighboring 2021 temblor

Using satellite imagery (shown above) to study the effects of a 2019 landslide on the Amalia Glacier in Patagonia, a University of Minnesota-led research team found the landslide helped stabilize the glacier and caused it to grow by about 1,000 meters over the last three years. Photo credit: Max Van Wyk de Vries

Landslides can have a major impact on glacier melt and movement

Basalt mit frischen Klinopyroxenen (credit Jonas Tusch)

Sampling the deep graveyard of Earth’s earliest crust

Vertebrate bones exposed during fieldwork in the Zhebao region of Guangxi ProvinceThe arrows indicate ribs, exposed in cross-section

Large Mesozoic Marine Reptile Described

Painting of the Mid-Ocean Ridge with rift axis by Heinrich Berann based on the scientific profiles of Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen (1977).

Seafloor spreading has been slowing down

1...181920...323Page 19 of 323

MOST POPULAR

Load more

MORE ARTICLES