Geology

Asteroid Gets Viewed From Space To Impact

Spalding interpreted recorded data about the atmospheric fireball, and Boslough estimated the aerodynamic ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:55pm

Ancient Sediment Record Reveals New Details Of Four Global Warming And Cooling Booms

Program. The results provide some new information about the four glacial cycles that occurred during that ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2009 - 4:15pm

Greenland Ice Sheets Can Change In A Geologic 'Instant'- Study

to about 5,000 years ago, a period when significant warming occurred.  "Even though the ice ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2009 - 2:00am

Hey Jupiter, Earth Gets Hit Too- Evidence For North American Cosmic Impact 13,000 Years Ago

and 19 types of birds also became extinct in North America about this time. "The type of diamond ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2009 - 1:33pm

Geologist Explains Why Haiti Earthquake Was Such A Disaster

the capital city, Port au Prince; second, the quake was shallow—only about 10-15 kilometers below the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:11pm

Mount St. Helens Devastating Reawakening- 30 Years Ago

hill sides. My life has been all about volcanoes the last few months. Thanks to a certain Icelandic ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - May 21 2010 - 12:52pm

Yangtze River In China 40 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought

began about 45 million years ago, whereas samples taken farther away from the river show no evidence of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2010 - 9:11am

How To Escape From A Pyroclastic Flow

the volcano erupted now", thinking about pyroclastic flows and trying to work out where would be ...

Article - Gareth Fabbro - Sep 23 2010 - 11:15am

Found: Possible Trigger For Volcano Super-Eruptions

of present-day Yellowstone Park about two million years ago, which was more than 2,000 times larger ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2011 - 1:01pm

Extinction: The Permian Period Was Gradual Doom

siliceous sponges about 100,000 years earlier than the marinemass extinction event recorded at Tethyan ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2012 - 3:25pm