This is the sampling site Lomas Bayas in the core region of the Atacama.

Life under extreme drought conditions

Ground-running bird model may predict bipedal dinosaur locomotion.

Locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs might be predicted from that of ground-running...

Schematic evolution of retrogressive slope failure due to overpressured gas below the gas haydrate stability zone (GHSZ)

Stable gas hydrates can trigger landslides

Teide volcano in Tenerife.

New insight into how magma feeds volcanic eruptions

Erosional Pleistocene shorelines in Surprise Valley, California, USA.

Extinct lakes of the American desert west

Cratonic lithosphere with a high-density root undergoes delamination when perturbed by mantle plumes from beneath. The removed cratonic root then thermally grows back, with its rock fabrics preserving recent mantle deformation.

Continental interiors may not be as tectonically stable as geologists think

Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii -- 400 million-year-old fossil plant stem from Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Plants colonized Earth 100 million years earlier than previously thought

seismogram

Earthquakes follow wastewater disposal patterns in southern Kansas

This schematic illustration of the 2014 Iquique earthquake off the coast of Chile (magnitude 8.1) shows the locations of foreshocks (blue) and aftershocks (red) relative to the area of large slip on the fault (contour lines).

Analysis of major earthquakes supports stress reduction assumptions

The oceanic slow carbon cycle.

How seafloor weathering drives the slow carbon cycle

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