Geology

Could We Have Been Wrong By Millions Of Years On The Creation Of The Tibetan Plateau?

New fossil evidence from the rock desert and cold, treeless steppes of Tibet's desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau that now comprise Earth's highest land mass suggests a literally groundbreaking possibility: Major tectonic changes on the Tibetan P ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2008 - 9:19pm

Mass Extinctions? Not Asteroids, But Sea Sediment, Says Study

If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits. But a new study suggests that it is ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2008 - 12:28pm

St. Louis Geologists Get Ready For Floods- "This Is Serious Water"

Residents of the central and southern Midwest are crossing their fingers, saying their prayers, planning evacuations, and in some cases filling sandbags in preparation for the excessive water ravishing communities in Iowa and Wisconsin. "The flood wav ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2008 - 3:29pm

New Active Submarine Volcanoes Found Near Fiji

Several huge active submarine volcanoes, spreading ridges and rift zones have been discovered northeast of Fiji by a team of Australian and American scientists aboard the Marine National Facility Research Vessel, Southern Surveyor. On the hunt for subsea v ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2008 - 9:58am

Greenland Ice Core Shows Ice Age Temperatures Rose 22 Degrees In 50 Years

Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulatio ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2008 - 3:08pm

Ice On Mars?

Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it. "It ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2008 - 10:35am

The Earth's Changing Core- And Its Magnetic Field

The movements in the liquid part of the Earth’s core are changing surprisingly quickly, and this affects the Earth’s magnetic field, according to new research from DTU Space. The Ørsted satellite’s very precise measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field ov ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2008 - 8:33am

Fire And Ice: Explosive Volcanoes Found Under Ice-Covered Arctic Ocean

An international team of researchers says they have evidence of explosive volcanism in the deeps of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for the first time. Researchers from an expedition to the Gakkel Ridge report in the current issue of Nature that they discover ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2008 - 12:54am

The Volcanoes That Shaped Mercury

Scientists have long anguished over how little is known about Mercury, the innermost of the four terrestrial planetary bodies in our solar system. The gaps in knowledge covered such basic information as the planet's geology, how it was formed and evol ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2008 - 1:04am

Creation Of India Basins Gets Pushed Back 500 Million Years- And Maybe Origin Of Life Too

The world of geology changes rapidly- sometimes the Grand Canyon is one age and then it is found to be much older. But even in geology it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years. University of Florida geologists say they have evidence tha ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2008 - 3:45pm