This is an illustrative transverse plane through the small trunk

World’s oldest and most complex trees

Ice Core

Ice sheets may melt rapidly in response to distant volcanoes

Rig "An oil platform"

Raton Basin earthquakes linked to oil and gas fluid injections

San Andreas fault

Anticipating aftershocks

How do we know the age of the Earth?

Inclusion within a diamond

Diamonds deliver insights into the chemistry of the deep Earth’s interior

Giant lateral volcano collapses affects the deep paths of magma.

New magma pathways after giant lateral volcano collapses

Igneous zircon crystal: shows zircon had two main growth periods approx. 20 million years apart in different magmas.

Zircon as Earth’s timekeeper: Are we reading the clock right?

This is an image of assorted microfossils from the Ediacaran Khesen Formation, Mongolia.

Mongolian microfossils point to the rise of animals on Earth

Simulation parameters for the scenario that generated the least shaking in the Seattle area.

50 simulations of the ‘Really Big One’ show how a 9.0...

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