While the Tonga volcanic eruption may have seemed like a relatively unpredictable event, researchers have discovered a ...

Material scientists can now use information from a common mineral and well-known earthquake and avalanche statistics to ...

Gold has both economic and cultural significance to human societies but, as Liang Zhang and David Groves explain, we owe its presence in the Earth’s crust to repeating cycles of plate tectonics.

The Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis—a major geological event that transformed the ...

Recent studies reveal that the Messinian Salinity Crisis led to the Mediterranean Sea becoming a vast salt basin through a ...

The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds and satellites as well as some that defy easy ...

You know me, I love a good gradient. These watercolors are from a series called Strata by Mikael Hallstrøm Eriksen, an artis ...

You know me, I love a good gradient. These watercolors are from a series called Strata by Mikael Hallstrøm Eriksen, an artist who uses “repetitive and accumulative mark-making” in his work.

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Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Not only do the new findings further cement the global Snowball Earth hypothesis, but the presence of Tava injectites within weak, fractured rocks once overridden by ice sheets provides clues about ...

Not only do the new findings further cement the global Snowball Earth hypothesis, but the presence of Tava injectites within ...