Geology News

The combined uranium/thorium/helium dating of minerals from the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the United States, indicates it was largely carved...

A well-preserved crab-like fossil that was found by scientists from Curtin University, Australia, has provided evidence of a toxic ocean environment in...

Geologists from the University of Saskatchewan and the Geological Survey of Canada have discovered a massive meteor impact from at least 130 million years...

In a new study, geologists at the University of Texas at Austin have examined large-scale polygons on Mars and compared them to similar features on Earth’s...

German researchers have succeeded in proving the presence of elemental fluorine in a mineral called antozonite. The most reactive chemical element, fluorine,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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