Geology News

Nov 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new study published in Nature provides chemical, isotopic and physical evidence that groundwater found more than 3,200 feet deep under the Chesapeake Bay is remnant water from the early Cretaceous North Atlantic Sea. This map shows locations of Chesapeake Bay crater and coreholes; the black and red circular lines mark the outer edges of the inner and outer craters; the black circle marks the location of the deep corehole. Image credit: Sanford WE...

Nov 12, 2013 by News Staff

According to geologists led by Dr Antonio Simonetti from the University of Notre Dame, a detailed analysis of calcite-rich minerals from the 120-million-year-old...

Nov 7, 2013 by News Staff

European scientists examined liquid basalt at record high pressures and temperatures to better understand how our planet evolved billions of years ago. Early...

Oct 23, 2013 by News Staff

Australian researchers reporting in the journal Nature Communications have detected particles of gold in the branches and leaves of eucalyptus trees growing...

Sep 26, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An analysis of three-billion-year-old soils from South Africa shows that oxygen appeared in the atmosphere more than 600 million years earlier than previously...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...

Aug 5, 2013 by News Staff

The International Mineralogical Association has officially approved qingsongite as the name for a new mineral, cubic boron nitride. Qingsongite is a recently...

Jul 14, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers have found geologic evidence that casts doubt on the prevailing theory of what triggered the glaciation of Antarctica. This map shows the present-day...

Jun 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Prof Patrice Rey from the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney has described for the first time the dramatic geological events that created...

May 16, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom led by Prof Chris Ballentine from the University of Manchester have discovered ancient water pockets that...

Apr 26, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Researchers have found evidence that material contained in young oceanic lava flows originated at the Earth’s surface in the Archean era, more than 2...

Mar 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Australian scientists have discovered a clear link between seismic activity and the precipitation of gold and other trace elements in earthquake fault...

Mar 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

New research on a mineral called molybdenite published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters provides new insights about the changing chemistry...

Feb 12, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A group of researchers from the National Oceanography Center in Southampton has discovered a strange new deep-sea volcanic vent at Hook Ridge near the...

Jan 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers from the UK and New Zealand has discovered a previously undocumented type of eruption in underwater volcanoes. Macauley...

Jan 3, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Oahu – the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands – will be reduced to nothing more than a flat island, someday, according to a research led...

Nov 30, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Nov 16, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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

Aug 9, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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

Jul 30, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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...