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How Nature’s ‘Dislocations’ Occur

October 4, 2016

Folding faults and seismic risk in the Kunlun range, Northwest Tibet

Scanning electron microscope images of tiny, ancient planktonic foraminifera, recovered from Gubbio, Italy. Credit: Gabriella Kitch

Malformed seashells, ancient sediment provide clues about Earth’s past

The Velodrome Recumbent Fold

Eclogite Folds in Nordfjord, Norway: A Geomorphological Perspective

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A view of Kīlauea’s summit lava lake. The lava lake is contained within a crater, which is set within the larger Halema‘uma‘u Crater. New research aims to understand the activity that led to the eruption in 2018 in Kīlauea’s lower East Rift Zone. Credit: USGS

Volcanic tremor and deformation at Kīlauea

August 3, 2021

Oldest fur seal identified, ending 5-million-year ‘ghost lineage’

February 12, 2015

Giving weight to Darwin’s theory of ‘living fossils’

February 22, 2017

Traces of failed Super-eruption in the Andes

August 3, 2016

Extraction of the sequence in Basa de la Mora lake by the IPE-CSIC research group of Quaternary Paleoenvironments. Credit: Anchel Belmonte Creative Commons BY-ND

Holocene temperature in the Iberian Peninsula reconstructed studying insect subfossils

Exceptionally preserved Jurassic sea life found in new fossil site

$Nearly 10 yrs of drone surveys at Merapi volcano highlights the importance of hydrothermal weakening and structures hidden beneath younger lavas. A fracture system that formed in 2012 was subsequently buried under new lava in 2018. Only a year later, the new lava dome that formed in 2018 showed signs of instability and collapse along the previously buried fracture system, implying that hidden weaknesses may be a key factor in controlling hazardous volcano collapse. Credit: Darmawan et al., (2022)$