Geology

How Greenhouse Gases Saved The World

spectrometer to measure the isotopic composition of the iron. All iron atoms have 26 protons at their core, but ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2007 - 6:08pm

Determining The Center Of The Earth

that all of these structures are energetically possible. “The standard model has been killed,” says ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2007 - 10:03am

Haida Gwaii: Queen Charlotte Islands Out Of The Mist

contrary, they’re excited. Paleogeology would be a very dull field if all that was left to do was to cross ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Mar 3 2008 - 3:37pm

Wabash Valley Fault- That Earthquake In Illinois Could Be The Start Of Something

East St. Louis. The little village of St. Genevieve, closer to the fault zone, had no damage at all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:19pm

Hydrocarbon Oceans And Upside-Down Mountains: Welcome To Titan

predictions.  "All of it surprises me because you never know what you are going to see," he said. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2009 - 10:18am

Glacier Sticks Out Tongue- Scientists Say Aaaah!

rate of calving.  The more shelter there is for the ice tongue, the longer it will grow, all other ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 27 2010 - 3:19pm

The Changing Composition Of The Eyjafjallajökull Eruption

system. The deeper magma had less time to cool and fractionate, and so was less evolved. All this is ...

Article - Gareth Fabbro - Dec 20 2011 - 1:10pm

An Earthquake At 90 Degree Angles?

all, he says, "If other earthquake ruptures are able to go this deep or to connect as many fault ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2012 - 3:00pm

The World's Continents Weren't Always Created In The Way That We Thought

confuse things further, not all oroclines are necessarily formed in this way: sometimes mountain ranges ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 23 2014 - 2:01pm

Ancient Buried Canyon In South Tibet Rules Out Tectonic Aneurysm

Himalayas all have strong knickpoints and have not incised much at all into the Tibetan Plateau. Therefore, ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2014 - 11:03am