Geology News

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...