Geology News
April 27, 2024
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Apr. 24, 2024 Hydrologists predict human-induced underground fluid fluxes to rise with climate change mitigation strategies like carbon ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A new study has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth's magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth ...
Apr. 18, 2024 Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to new research. Scientists used satellite data that accurately and consistently maps land movement across ...
Apr. 2, 2024 Researchers describe zircons from the Andes mountains of Patagonia. Although the zircons formed when tectonic plates were colliding, they have a chemical signature associated with when the plates were moving apart. The researchers think that the ...
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Apr. 19, 2024 Earthquakes and landslides are famously difficult to predict and prepare for. By studying a miniature version of the ground in the lab, scientists have demonstrated how these events can be triggered ...
Apr. 19, 2024 Tectonically active mountains play an important role in the natural CO2 regulation of the atmosphere. Competing processes take place here: At Earth's surface, erosion drives weathering processes that ...
Apr. 3, 2024 Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must separate mixed lanthanide sources into individual elements using costly, time-consuming, and ...
Mar. 18, 2024 A new report uncovers how hydrogen gas, the energy of the future, provided energy in the past, at the origin of life 4 billion years ago. Hydrogen gas is clean fuel. It burns with oxygen in the air ...
Mar. 21, 2024 The oldest Scandinavian bedrock was 'born' in Greenland, according to a new geological study. The study helps us understand the origin of continents and why Earth is the only planet in our solar ...
Mar. 19, 2024 Oceans are subject to continuous change, mostly over extremely vast periods of time running into millions of years. Researchers have now used ...
Mar. 15, 2024 Everything is everywhere -- under certain conditions microbial communities can grow and thrive, even in places that are seemingly uninhabitable. This is the case at inactive hydrothermal vents on the ...
Mar. 14, 2024 The period that liquid water was present on the surface of Mars may have been shorter than previously thought. Channel landforms called gullies, previously thought to be formed exclusively by liquid ...
Mar. 13, 2024 A new study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Scientists have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the orbits of Earth and Mars, past global warming ...
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Mar. 12, 2024 Sand ripples are symmetrical. Yet wind -- which causes them -- is very much not. Furthermore, sand ripples can be found on Mars and on Earth. They would be even more fascinating if the same effect ...
New Study Reveals Insight Into Which Animals Are Most Vulnerable to Extinction Due to Climate Change
Mar. 7, 2024 In a new study, researchers have used the fossil record to better understand what factors make animals more vulnerable to extinction from climate change. The results could help to identify species ...
Mar. 7, 2024 For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20 degrees Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such ...
Mar. 4, 2024 A team has collected dozens of samples from across southeastern Colorado, and their results could help to answer an enduring mystery: What made Colorado's High Plains so ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Massive volcanic events in Earth's history that released large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere frequently correlate with periods of severe environmental change and mass extinctions. A new ...
Feb. 28, 2024 New research documents the fastest-known large-scale breakage along an Antarctic ice shelf. A 6.5-mile crack formed in 2012 over 5-and-a-half minutes, showing that ice shelves can effectively shatter ...
Feb. 23, 2024 Researchers are revisiting old building practices -- the use of by-products and cast-offs -- as a way to improve building materials and sustainability of the trade. A technique known as rammed earth ...
Feb. 22, 2024 A detailed survey of the volcanic underwater deposits around the Kikai caldera in Japan clarified the deposition mechanisms as well as the event's magnitude. As a result, the research team found ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to ...
Feb. 15, 2024 A new study offers a glimpse into the possible impact of climate change on coastal wetlands 50 years or longer into the future. Scientists are usually forced to rely on computer models to project the ...
Feb. 12, 2024 This study reports widespread mineral carbonation of mantle rocks in an oceanic transform fueled by magmatic degassing of CO2. The findings describe a previously unknown part of the geological carbon ...
Feb. 8, 2024 Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrunk suddenly and dramatically at the end of the Last Ice Age, around eight thousand years ago. The evidence, ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones -- where tectonic plates collide -- could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones behave during the years between major ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Inspired during field work in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, geoscientists have proposed that all-time low volcanic carbon dioxide emissions triggered a 57-million-year-long global ...
Feb. 6, 2024 The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people who live there. A ...
Feb. 5, 2024 The Circumpolar Current works as a regulator of the planet's climate. Its origins were thought to have caused the formation of the permanent ice in Antarctica about 34 million years ago. Now, a ...
Jan. 31, 2024 Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed- - a revised origin story that doesn't require the start of plate tectonics or any external ...
Jan. 25, 2024 Hydrothermal vents and manganese nodule fields in the deep oceans contain more biodiversity than ...
Jan. 23, 2024 The Hayabusa2 mission that collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu has provided a treasure trove of insights into our solar system. After analyzing samples further, a team of researchers have ...
Jan. 22, 2024 Tipping elements of the Earth system should be considered global commons, researchers argue. Global commons cannot -- as they currently do -- only include the parts of the planet outside of national ...
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
- New Study Reveals Insight Into Which Animals Are Most Vulnerable to Extinction Due to Climate Change
- Rock Weathering and Climate: Low-Relief Mountain Ranges Are Largest Carbon Sinks
Monday, March 4, 2024
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- Early-Stage Subduction Invasion
- New 'time Travel' Study Reveals Future Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Marshes
Monday, February 12, 2024
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Ancient Rocks Improve Understanding of Tectonic Activity Between Earthquakes
- What Turned Earth Into a Giant Snowball 700 Million Years Ago? Scientists Now Have an Answer
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Monday, December 18, 2023
- Mesopotamian Bricks Unveil the Strength of Earth's Ancient Magnetic Field
- Little Bacterium May Make Big Impact on Rare-Earth Processing
- Exoplanets' Climate -- It Takes Nothing to Switch from Habitable to Hell
- Global Inventory of Sound Production Brings Us One Step Closer to Understanding Aquatic Ecosystems
Friday, December 15, 2023
- Positive Tipping Points Must Be Triggered to Solve Climate Crisis
- Drones Capture New Clues About How Water Shapes Mountain Ranges Over Time
Monday, December 11, 2023
Thursday, December 7, 2023
- Molecular Fossils Shed Light on Ancient Life
- Geoscientists Map Changes in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Over Past 66 Million Years
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
- A New Bacterial Species from a Hydrothermal Vent Throws Light on Their Evolution
- Landscape Dynamics Determine the Evolution of Biodiversity on Earth
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
- Mystery of Volcanic Tsunami Solved After 373 Years
- Venus Had Earth-Like Plate Tectonics Billions of Years Ago, Study Suggests
Monday, October 23, 2023
- Superdeep Diamonds Provide a Window on Supercontinent Growth
- Researchers Probe Molten Rock to Crack Earth's Deepest Secrets
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
- California Supervolcano Is Cooling Off but May Still Cause Quakes
- Ancient Diamonds Shine Light on the Evolution of Earth
Monday, October 9, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
- Ancient Carbon in Rocks Releases as Much Carbon Dioxide as the World's Volcanoes
- Volcanic Ash Effects on Earth Systems
- Discovery of Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Could Explain New Zealand's Mysterious Slow Earthquakes
Friday, September 29, 2023
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
- Two out of Three Volcanoes Are Little-Known. How to Predict Their Eruptions?
- Tiny Mineral Inclusions Picture the Chemical Exchange Between Earth's Mantle and Atmosphere
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
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Monday, August 7, 2023
- Carbon Dioxide -- Not Water -- Triggers Explosive Basaltic Volcanoes
- Scientists Crack the Code of What Causes Diamonds to Erupt
Friday, August 4, 2023
- Invasion of the Arctic Ocean by Atlantic Plankton Species Reveals a Seasonally Ice-Free Ocean During the Last Interglacial
- Geomagnetic Field Protects Earth from Electron Showers
Thursday, August 3, 2023
- Research Reveals Hawai'i's Undersea Volcano, Kama'ehu, Erupted Five Times in Past 150 Years
- Past Climate Warming Driven by Hydrothermal Vents
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
- Nature's Kitchen: How a Chemical Reaction Used by Cooks Helped Create Life on Earth
- Fiber Optic Cables Detect and Characterize Earthquakes
- Dune Patterns Reveal Environmental Change on Earth and Other Planets
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023
- Why the Day Is 24 Hours Long: Astrophysicists Reveal Why Earth's Day Was a Constant 19.5 Hours for Over a Billion Years
- Earth's Inner Core: Earth's Solid Metal Sphere Is 'textured'
Monday, July 3, 2023
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
- Research Reveals Sources of CO2 from Aleutian-Alaska Arc Volcanoes
- Climate Change Will Increase Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions
- Researchers Unearth the Mysteries of How Turkey's East Anatolian Fault Formed
- What Are the Characteristics of Foreshocks for Large Earthquakes?
Monday, June 26, 2023
- Research in a Place Where Geological Processes Happen Before Your Eyes
- Study of Deep-Sea Corals Reveals Ocean Currents Have Not Fuelled Rise in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Thursday, June 22, 2023
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
- Scientists Unearth 20 Million Years of 'hot Spot' Magmatism Under Cocos Plate
- A Tongan Volcano Plume Produced the Most Intense Lightning Rates Ever Detected
Thursday, June 15, 2023
- We've Pumped So Much Groundwater That We've Nudged Earth's Spin
- Massive Underwater Plateau Near Solomon Islands Is Younger and Its Eruption Was More Protracted Than Previously Thought