Geology

Two New Lakes Discovered Beneath Greenland Ice Sheet

that, unlike in Antarctica where surface temperatures remain below freezing all year round, the newly ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2013 - 8:00am

Those Supervolcanoes In Utah- Wait, What?

minerals to verify that the volcanic ash was all from the same ancient super-eruption. They found that the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2013 - 10:36am

4 Billion-Year-Old Diamonds In Earth's Oldest Zircons Turn Out To Be Laboratory Contamination

diamonds in question are not diamonds at all but broken fragments of a diamond-polishing compound that got ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2013 - 5:26pm

The Ocean Beneath Your Feet

and a half times the water of all the Earth's oceans to its mantle, according to a new ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2014 - 2:17pm

Cool Earth- 4.4 Billion Year Old Australian Zircon Reveals The Early Genesis Of The Planet

formed 4.4 billion years ago, and at 3.4 billion years, all the lead that existed at that time was ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2014 - 11:16pm

2010 Chile Earthquakes: Water In Plate Boundary Zone Was Key Factor

pressure and rock properties, on the other hand, are available from laboratory measurements. All these data ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2014 - 3:20pm

The Live Volcano Of Jeju Island

out of which lava was spewed and then flowed down in all directions along the inland slope. It is also ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 5:54pm

Jerusalem's Western Wall- Why Some Stones Have No Wear After 2,000 Years

any time.   To calculate why the Western Wall erodes so different, or hardly at all in spots, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2014 - 9:40am

Life On Mars? Nakhla Martian Meteorite Has A Clue

Mars does provide all the conditions for life to have formed and evolved. It also adds to a body of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 10:30am

Great Earthquakes Doubled In The Most Recent 10 Year Period- What That Means

Cascadia. We don't know if it always goes all at once or sometimes in sequences of smaller events, with ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2014 - 10:05am