Petrovite. Credit: SPbU For more than 40 years, Stanislav Filatov, Professor at St Petersburg University, together with colleagues from other research institutions in Russia, has…
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The largely featureless surface of the Greenland ice sheet, as seen from the window of a P3 aircraft carrying geophysical instruments aimed at detecting geologic…
Lava flowing across black rocks. International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the…
The inner structure of the Earth. The investigations simulated condition as in the lower mantle. Credit: DESY/Franziska Lorenz & Jochen Stuhrmann) High-pressure, high-temperature investigation of…
Physical map of the Serra da Cangalha, Brazil, impact structure, produced using the TanDEM-X mission digital elevation model. Credit: Gottwald, Kenkmann, Reimold: Terrestrial Impact Structures,…
Yuki Haneda (left, top) and colleagues collected samples from the Chiba composite section, a continuous and expanded marine succession in Central Japan. Credit: NIPR/AIST/Ibaraki University…
Black Beauty. Martian meteorite NWA 7533 is worth more than its weight in gold. Credit: © University of Copenhagen/Deng et al. A meteorite that originated…
Parched earth. Credit: The University of Queensland Mega-droughts – droughts that last two decades or longer – are tipped to increase thanks to climate change,…
Scanning electron microscope image of the new mineral, Donwilhelmsite, in the lunar meteorite Oued Awlitis 001. Credit: © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Ansgar Greshake Donwilhelmsite…
Cathodoluminescence image of Zircon crystals from Nevado de Toluca volcano in Mexico. Credit: UNIGE/WEBER A new method shows that it’s now possible to estimate the…
The soil pulls water out of the air during cooler, humid periods at night and then releases it when activated by solar energy during the…
A new study coordinated by CU Boulder makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that…
Current understanding is that the chemical composition of the Earth’s mantle is relatively homogeneous. But experiments conducted by ETH researchers now show that this view…
Smoke rises from a fire burning deep in peat soils. Credit: Chris Lowie/USFWS Imperial College London researchers have simulated for the first time how soil…
A new international study led by Monash University climate scientists has revealed that ice loss in Antarctica persisted for many centuries after it was initiated…
(l-r) Jonny Wu, assistant professor of geology in the UH Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Spencer Fuston, a third-year geology doctoral student, applied…
First and corresponding author Dr. Byron A. Adams in the steep terrain of the Greater Himalaya, Central Bhutan. Credit: Photo by second author Professor Kelin…
Study suggests parts of the Sierra Nevadas formed in a “geologic instant,” more than twice as fast as previously thought. Although we can’t see it…
Pioneering new research has helped geologists solve a long-standing puzzle that could help pinpoint new, untapped concentrations of some the most valuable rare earth deposits.…
Central Alps of Switzerland have been lifted to today’s height. Credit: ETH Zurich ETH researchers have used a computer model to test a new hypothesis…