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Rock layers in the Pongola Basin, South Africa.

World’s oldest known oxygen oasis discovered

Geology Page - January 19, 2018

Localization and geometry of the "Unit 2" corresponding to the sediment body originated by the Zanclean mega flood.

Scientists find new evidences of the megaflood that ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the eastern Mediterranean

The Pinnacles of Gunung Mulu in Borneo

New source of global nitrogen discovered

Changes in Earth’s crust caused oxygen to fill the atmosphere

Early Earth’s air weighed less than half of today’s atmosphere

A sample of 2-billion-year-old salt (pink-white recrystallized halite) with embedded fragments of calcium sulfate from a geological drill core in Russian Karelia.

Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in ancient atmosphere

Geology Page - March 24, 2018

Scientists probe underground depths of Earth’s carbon cycle

Geology Page - November 9, 2016

Natural magnesite crystal (4 microns wide).

Faster way to make mineral to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere

Geology Page - August 16, 2018

A 3D computer model of the asthenosphere by Rice University geophysicists finds that the convective cycling and pressure-driven flow can sometimes cause the asthenosphere to move even faster than the tectonic plates riding atop it.

Flow in the asthenosphere drags tectonic plates along

Geology Page - May 29, 2018

Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons

Geology Page - December 2, 2016

the central range of Taiwan

Mountain erosion may add CO2 to the atmosphere

Geology Page - April 14, 2018

Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?

Geology Page - December 31, 2016

The composition of fossilised zooplankton shells has enabled the reconstruction of past pH and CO2. Credit: University of Southampton

By 2025, carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere will be higher...

Geology Page - July 11, 2020

Ocean.

Primordial oceans had oxygen 250 million years before the atmosphere

Geology Page - January 25, 2018

Oldest rocks in Australia unlock secrets of the atmosphere

Geology Page - June 27, 2016

Study opens new questions on how the atmosphere and oceans formed

Geology Page - March 1, 2017

Study pinpoints timing of oxygen’s first appearance in Earth’s atmosphere

Geology Page - May 16, 2016

Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents + life

Geology Page - May 17, 2016

Ice cores reveal a slow decline in atmospheric oxygen over the...

Geology Page - October 3, 2016

Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere

Geology Page - March 14, 2017

Cosmic dust reveals Earth’s ancient atmosphere

Geology Page - May 12, 2016

Megadrought risks in southwest U.S. soar as atmosphere warms

Geology Page - October 10, 2016

Soil will absorb less atmospheric carbon than expected this century, study...

Geology Page - September 23, 2016

Humble moss helped create our oxygen-rich atmosphere

Geology Page - August 16, 2016

Isotopic memory of atmospheric persistence

Geology Page - January 15, 2015

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