Geology

4 Billion-Year-Old Diamonds In Earth's Oldest Zircons Turn Out To Be Laboratory Contamination

Australia, which more than 3 billion years old, were eroded from rocks as old as about 4.3 billion years. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2013 - 5:26pm

Ancient Earthquakes- Researchers Devise Fossil Seismographs

about earthquakes of the ancient past and even help predict earthquakes of the future.  Prof. Shmuel ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:06pm

New Madrid Earthquake And The Farallon Plate

I learned in my teens about this massive quake in the middle of the continent, far away from any major ...

Article - Mary Hrovat - Mar 24 2011 - 3:35pm

Why So Many Earthquakes Recently? It's Physics

Therefore, an earthquake measuring 6.0 is about 30 times more powerful than one measuring 5.0. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:13pm

A is for Aniakchak (an A to Z of volcanoes)

the caldera, about 38 km 2, to an average depth of 98 m.  This gives almost 4 km 3 of water in the ...

Blog Post - Gareth Fabbro - Dec 4 2011 - 11:50am

A Geologist's Experience (Accretionary Wedge 41)

about how we can recreate the eruption from the deposits, but it was these boulders that allowed me to ...

Blog Post - Gareth Fabbro - Dec 27 2011 - 11:11am

Volcanic Eruption On Cape Verde Island- Largest In 60 Years

of the eruption is not known. The magma’s eruption rate has decreased, but concerns have arisen about ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2015 - 9:30am

Earth Getting 'Soft' In The Middle

a single crystal of the material and found that over an extended pressure range (from about 395,000 to ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2008 - 3:24pm

Ancient Bacteria Reveal Earth's Primordial Temperature

for bacteria that live in cold environments. Armed with information about when bacterial species ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2008 - 1:11pm

Marte Valles: Fractured Lavas, Only Seen Before On Earth, Suggest Floods On Mars

on the Navajo reservation, about 45 miles east of Flagstaff," Milazzo said. "If you hike ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2009 - 10:32am