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Closeup of the stomach area of a fossil ichthyosaur, Guizhouichthyosaurus, showing part of the body of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur had swallowed its prey shortly before it died and was fossilized. This is the oldest known direct evidence of megapredation, or a large animal eating another large animal. (Da-Yong Jiang, et al.)

Ichthyosaur’s last meal is evidence of Triassic megapredation

Geology Page - August 26, 2020

Researchers doing fieldwork in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Credit: Stuart Gilfillan

Rare gas find solves African landscape puzzle

A new study by an SMU geophysical team found alarming rates of ground movement at various locations across a 4000-square-mile area of four Texas counties.

Radar images show large swath of Texas oil patch is heaving and sinking at alarming rates

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

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

Hundred-year-old law on fluid flow overturned by new research

Why does a Yellowstone microorganism prefer meager rations over rich ones?

Geology Page - July 4, 2017

Origins of Cu-Pb-Zn-bearing and W-bearing granites

Geology Page - June 27, 2017

Landscape-scale erosion instabilities in the northern Gabilan Mesa, California

Geology Page - May 27, 2017

How X-rays helped to solve mystery of floating rocks

Geology Page - May 23, 2017

New Zealand quake scientists discover surprise

Geology Page - May 17, 2017

Antarctic ice rift spreads

Geology Page - May 2, 2017

Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region’s past

Geology Page - April 28, 2017

Radiocarbon dating gets a postmodern makeover

Geology Page - April 25, 2017

$West Virginia groundwater not affected by fracking, but surface water is$

West Virginia groundwater not affected by fracking, but surface water is

Geology Page - April 24, 2017

Megafaunal extinctions driven by too much moisture

Geology Page - April 18, 2017

Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear

Geology Page - April 17, 2017

First oceans may have been acidic

Geology Page - April 11, 2017

Granites could solve riddle of pinpointing metals crucial for low carbon...

Geology Page - April 5, 2017

Legends of the lost reservoirs

Geology Page - March 29, 2017

More than 100 years of flooding and erosion in one event

Geology Page - March 27, 2017

Rocks that tell our industrial history

Geology Page - March 24, 2017

Amazon River no younger than 9 million years

Geology Page - March 21, 2017

Last remnant of North American ice sheet on track to vanish

Geology Page - March 21, 2017

Going deep to measure Earth’s rotational effects

Geology Page - March 19, 2017

Study shows how river channels adjust to large sediment supplies

Geology Page - March 14, 2017

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New open-access data on paleofloods

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A 3D model of the mandible of Alophia rendered from high resolution CT scans.

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Ed Garrett of Durham University examines bleached coralline algae related to the the 2016 magnitude 7.6 Chiloé earthquake in Chile. Credit: Martin Brader

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