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geology
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The Making of Mount Everest
The Himalayas, once a shallow sea bed, rose due to tectonic collisions, resulting in a dramatic shift in…
Limestone and iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Western Australia 100,000 years ago
Limestone pinnacles of the Nambung National Park karst. Matej Lipar Almost one-sixth of Earth’s land surface is covered…
A rhino died after a volcano erupted. Something remarkable was left behind.
A rhino-shaped cavity in pillow basalt near Blue Lake formed when lava cooled around a rhino carcass 15…
What Will Earth Look Like In the Future?
Humans have become the first species in history capable of predicting global changes ahead of time, allowing us…
What the Anthropocene’s critics overlook – and why it really should be a new geological epoch
Simon Turner, UCL; Colin Waters, University of Leicester; Jan Zalasiewicz, University of Leicester, and Martin J. Head, Brock…
New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and deserve a science of their own
A typical New England stone wall in Hebron, Conn. Robert M. Thorson, CC BY-ND Robert M. Thorson, University…
MIT Geologists Discover Powerful Carbon-Trapping Ability of a Clay Mineral
At a Glance MIT geologists have made a fascinating discovery about a clay mineral called smectite on the…
When did the first fish live on Earth – and how do scientists figure out the timing?
Reconstruction of Haikouichthys ercaicunensis based on fossil evidence. Talifero/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Isaac Skromne, University of Richmond Curious…
My job is full of fossilised poop, but there’s nothing icky about ichnology
The author and a colleague on the hunt for fossil traces. Morena Nava Lara Sciscio, Jurassica Museum If…
A Billion Years Are Missing from Grand Canyon Rock—And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Travelers to the United States of America, or even those aspiring to travel there one day, will most…