Geology News

Posted October 12, 2011:

• Possible Trigger for Volcanic 'Super-Eruptions' Discovered
• 'Snowball Earth' Hypothesis Challenged

Posted October 11, 2011:

• Natural Processes Can Limit Spread of Arsenic in Water, Says Study
• How Life Might Have Survived 'Snowball Earth'

Posted October 10, 2011:

• Critical Minerals Ignite Geopolitical Storm

Posted October 6, 2011:

• Southern California's Tectonic Plates Revealed in Detail
• Increasingly Precise Data on Radiation Reflected from the Arctic Sea Area
• Astronomy and Geophysics Bring Women Into Science, UK Study Shows

Posted October 5, 2011:

• First Comet Found With Ocean-Like Water

Posted October 3, 2011:

• Tenerife Geology Discovery Is Among 'World's Best': Holiday Island Landscape Reveals Explosive Past

Posted September 30, 2011:

• Reefs Recovered Faster After Mass Extinction Than First Thought

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Strong Solar Storm Reaching Earth
• Salty Water and Gas Sucked Into Earth's Interior Helps Unravel Planetary Evolution

Posted September 23, 2011:

• What Makes Rainforests Unique? History, Not Ecology

Posted September 22, 2011:

• New Metal Hydride Clusters Provide Insights Into Hydrogen Storage

Posted September 15, 2011:

• NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth
• Carbon Cycle Reaches Earth's Lower Mantle: Evidence of Carbon Cycle Found in 'Superdeep' Diamonds From Brazil

Posted September 14, 2011:

• The Cause of Earth's Largest Environmental Catastrophe

Posted September 13, 2011:

• Strange Vent-Fellows: Chemosynthetic Shrimp, Tubeworms Together for First Time at Hydrothermal Vent

Posted September 11, 2011:

• Sea Levels Much Less Stable Than Earlier Believed, New Coral Dating Method Suggests

Posted September 8, 2011:

• 800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability: Earth's Climate Is Capable of Very Rapid Transitions

Posted September 7, 2011:

• Evidence for a Persistently Iron-Rich Ocean Changes Views on Earth's Early History
• Where Does All Earth's Gold Come From? Precious Metals the Result of Meteorite Bombardment, Rock Analysis Finds
• CERES Continues Legacy of Cloud Study on NPP

Posted September 1, 2011:

• NASA Earth-Observing Satellite Arrives in California for Launch
• The Geophysicist's Guide to Striking It Rich

Posted August 28, 2011:

• Tackling Mysteries About Carbon, Possible Oil Formation and More Deep Inside Earth

Posted August 24, 2011:

• New Assessment of Gas Resources in the Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin

Posted August 21, 2011:

• Oldest Fossils on Earth Discovered

Posted August 17, 2011:

• Polar Ice Caps Can Recover from Warmer Climate-Induced Melting, Study Shows
• Moon Younger Than Previously Thought, Analysis of Lunar Rock Reveals
• It's a Small World, After All: Earth Is Not Expanding, NASA Research Confirms

Posted August 16, 2011:

• Breathing New Life Into Earth: Evidence of Early Oxygen in the Oceans of Our Planet

Posted August 11, 2011:

• El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake Was Simple on Surface, Complicated at Depth, New Data Show

Posted August 10, 2011:

• Deep Recycling in Earth Faster Than Thought
• Hydrogen-Powered Symbiotic Bacteria Found in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Mussels

Posted August 9, 2011:

• Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class? Sun Emits an X-Class Flare on August 9, 2011
• New Eruption Discovered at Undersea Volcano, After Successfully Forecasting the Event

Posted August 8, 2011:

• Billion-Year-Old Piece of North America Traced Back to Antarctica
• NASA's NPP Satellite Completes Comprehensive Testing

Posted August 4, 2011:

• New Field of Hydrothermal Vents Discovered Along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Posted August 3, 2011:

• Simulated Atmosphere Research to Help NASA Interpret Data from Juno Mission to Jupiter

Posted August 2, 2011:

• A Hot Topic: Radioactive Decay Is Key Ingredient Behind Earth's Heat, Research Shows

Posted August 1, 2011:

• The Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea
• Ancient Tides Quite Different from Today -- Some Dramatically Higher, Some Lower
• Avoiding Nemesis: Does Impact Rate for Asteroids and Comets Vary Periodically With Time?

Posted July 27, 2011:

• Reservoirs of Ancient Lava Shaped Earth

Posted July 25, 2011:

• Unique Volcanic Complex Discovered on Moon's Far Side

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