Graduate student Mike Duvall is pictured here in southeastern Nepal during fieldwork in 2017. Image credit: John Waldron

Scientists discover fault system in southeastern Nepal

A dinosaur-like reptile leaves muddy footprints along the shoreline of a lake during a rainstorm some 234 million years ago in northwestern Argentina. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez/NHMU

Insights into climate change during origin of dinosaurs

268 seismometers (red) in 117 countries detected a drop on seismic noise. “Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures” by Thomas Lecocq et al., published Thursday 23 July 2020 in Science Credits:Photo of seismometer: Stephen Hicks/Imperial College London

COVID-19 lockdown caused 50 percent global reduction in human-linked Earth vibrations

Decomposition of dinosaurian remains inferred by invertebrate traces on vertebrate bone reveal new insights into Late Jurassic ecology, decay, and climate in western Colorado Credit: Brian Engh

New Mygatt-Moore quarry research leads to prehistoric climate finds

San Andreas Fault Zone

Chance of big San Andreas earthquake increased by Ridgecrest temblors, study...

Map of the Earth showing the present-day deviation from expected magnetic field direction. The star is Saint Helena

South Atlantic anomalies existed 8 – 11 million years ago

A team of Penn State researchers studied Telica Volcano, a persistently active volcano in western Nicaragua, to both observe and quantify small-scale intra-crater change associated with background and eruptive activity. IMAGE: Google Earth

Photos may improve understanding of volcanic processes

A snapshot of a model from the new work, showing the late stages of growth and coalescence of a new global fracture network. Fractures are in black / shadow, and colors show stresses (pink color denotes tensile stress, blue color denotes compressive stress).

A new idea on how Earth’s outer shell first broke into...

Arizona Rock Offers Clues to the Chaotic Earth of 200 Million Years Ago

Arizona Rock Offers Clues to the Chaotic Earth of 200 Million...

A Trapiche emerald from Muzo Mine, Colombia. Credit: Luciana Barbosa/Wikipedia

Trapiche Emerald : What is a Trapiche Emerald? How Does a...

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