Geology News

Jul 5, 2012 by Natali Anderson

German researchers have succeeded in proving the presence of elemental fluorine in a mineral called antozonite. The most reactive chemical element, fluorine, has been claimed not to occur in nature. First direct evidence from in situ NMR spectroscopy now proves that elemental fluorine indeed occurs in nature as an occlusion in antozonite (Didier Descouens) Fluorine is the most reactive of all chemical elements and calls for extremely careful handling....

Jul 3, 2012 by News Staff

European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...

Jun 26, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have discovered a new mineral embedded in the Allende meteorite that fell in central Mexico more...

Jun 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study has demonstrated that the creation of most minerals containing mercury is fundamentally linked to several episodes of supercontinent assembly...

Jun 11, 2012 by News Staff

A new study by a team of biologists and geochemists from GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, has demonstrated that Desulfobulbus...

May 28, 2012 by James Freeman

A new study has suggested that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the Harappan civilization. Archaeological ruins of Mohenjo-daro:...

May 16, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from Britain and Australia have discovered a previously unrecognized volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing,...

May 3, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has found that the current distribution of cypress subfamilies reflects the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea that...

Apr 27, 2012 by News Staff

Arizona State University graduate student Andrew Ryan has discovered a new form of Martian lava flow that resembles snail or nautilus shells. More than...

Mar 26, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of geologists led by Dr. Eric Roberts of Australia’s James Cook University has suggested that the Great Rift Valley of East...

Jan 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, Canadian researchers have suggested that the Earth’s most severe mass extinction was caused by an influx of mercury into the eco-system. In...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled...

Nov 18, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers from North America and China determined the date and rate of Earth’s most severe mass extinction. A paper in this week’s journal Science...

Nov 17, 2011 by James Freeman

The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a puzzle mystifying scientists since their discovery...