• River erosion can shape fish evolution
    Thursday, May 25, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study of the freshwater greenfin darter fish suggests river erosion can be a driver of biodiversity in tectonically inactive regions.
  • Iron-rich rocks unlock new insights into Earth's planetary history
    Thursday, May 25, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study suggests iron-rich ancient sediments may have helped cause some of the largest volcanic events in the planet's history.
  • New method predicts extreme events more accurately
    Wednesday, May 24, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study has used global storm-resolving simulations and machine learning to create an algorithm that can deal separately with two different scales of cloud organization: those resolved by a climate model, and those that cannot be...
  • Extinct offshore volcano could store gigatons of carbon dioxide
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study concludes that an extinct volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of ~24-125 years of the country's industrial emissions. For context, in 2022 a total of...
  • A Crack in the Mountain review – scrupulous look at the exploitation of a natural wonder
    Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from Geology | The Guardian
    Alastair Evans’s documentary details the struggle to preserve Hang Son Doong caves in Vietnam, which were discovered in 1991 “There was quite a substantial breeze coming out. A substantial breeze normally would signify a substantial...
  • Eruption of Tonga underwater volcano found to disrupt satellite signals halfway around the world
    Monday, May 22, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers found that the Hunga-Tonga eruption was associated with the formation of an equatorial plasma bubble in the ionosphere, a phenomenon associated with disruption of satellite-based communications. Their findings also suggest...
  • Past climate change to blame for Antarctica's giant underwater landslides
    Thursday, May 18, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Scientists found weak, biologically-rich layers of sediments hundreds of meters beneath the seafloor which crumbled as oceans warmed and ice sheets declined. The landslides were discovered in the eastern Ross Sea in 2017, by an...
  • Physicists take the temperature of fluid flows and discover new role for turbulence
    Tuesday, May 16, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A team of physicists has discovered a new role for a specific type of turbulence -- a finding that sheds light on fluid flows ranging from the Earth's liquid core to boiling water.
  • 'Warm Ice Age' changed climate cycles
    Tuesday, May 16, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Approximately 700,000 years ago, a 'warm ice age' permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. During this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded. A research team identified this seemingly...
  • UK’s most literal rock documentary, A Year in a Field, up for film prize
    Tuesday, May 16, 2023 from Geology | The Guardian
    Eighty-six-minute movie starring 4,000-year-old Cornish stone billed as antithesis to flashy nature shows It is a rock documentary but there is no pounding music, no terrible behaviour, no bombastic characters. Instead, the 86-minute...
  • Out of this world control on Ice Age cycles
    Monday, May 15, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A research team, composed of climatologists and an astronomer, have used an improved computer model to reproduce the cycle of ice ages (glacial periods) 1.6 to 1.2 million years ago. The results show that the glacial cycle was driven...
  • Great Bas­in: His­tory of water sup­ply in one of the dri­est regions in the USA
    Thursday, May 11, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    An international team has reconstructed the evolution of groundwater in the Great Basin, USA -- one of the driest regions on Earth -- up to 350,000 years into the past with unprecedented accuracy. The results shed new light on the...
  • How life and geology worked together to forge Earth's nutrient rich crust
    Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Around 500 million years ago life in the oceans rapidly diversified. In the blink of an eye -- at least in geological terms -- life transformed from simple, soft-bodied creatures to complex multicellular organisms with shells and...
  • Rock concert: Yellowstone seismic activity to be performed on live flute
    Monday, May 8, 2023 from Geology | The Guardian
    Real-time data will be displayed for Dr Alyssa Schwartz to play at Atlanta conference Move aside Metallica and Led Zeppelin: scientists are planning to make “rock” music by letting seismic activity headline in a live flute performance....
  • New clues about the rise of Earth's continents
    Thursday, May 4, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    New research deepens the understanding of Earth's crust by testing and ultimately eliminating one popular hypothesis about why continental crust is lower in iron and more oxidized compared to oceanic crust. The iron-poor composition of...
  • Ridgecrest faults increasingly sensitive to solid Earth tides before earthquakes
    Friday, April 21, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Faults in the Ridgecrest, California area were very sensitive to solid earth tidal stresses in the year and a half before the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence.
  • Turkey's next quake: Research shows where, how bad -- but not 'when'
    Thursday, April 20, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Using remote sensing, geophysicists have documented the massive Feb. 6 quake that killed more than 50,000 people in Eastern Turkey and toppled more than 100,000 buildings. Alarmingly, researchers found that a section of the fault remains...
  • Plate tectonic processes in the Pacific and Atlantic during the Cretaceous period have shaped the Caribbean region to this day
    Wednesday, April 19, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active subduction zones come into being, however, is...
  • How did the Andes Mountains get so huge? A new geological research method may hold the answer
    Thursday, April 13, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    How did the Andes -- the world's longest mountain range -- reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method may be able to answer. With unprecedented precision, the method allows researchers to...
  • How did Earth get its water?
    Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Our planet's water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth's formative years.
  • Humans need Earth-like ecosystem for deep-space living
    Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Can humans endure long-term living in deep space? The answer is a lukewarm maybe, according to a new theory describing the complexity of maintaining gravity and oxygen, obtaining water, developing agriculture and handling waste far from...
  • Critical observations of sinking coasts
    Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Using satellite-obtained data from 2007-21, researchers mapped the entire East Coast to demonstrate how the inclusion of land subsidence reveals many areas to be more vulnerable to floods and erosion than previously thought.
  • Study re-evaluates hazards and climate impacts of massive underwater volcanic eruptions
    Tuesday, April 11, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Material left on the seafloor by bronze-age underwater volcanic eruptions is helping researchers better understand the size, hazards and climate impact of their parent eruptions, according to new research.
  • Lightning strike creates phosphorus material
    Tuesday, April 11, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A lightning strike in New Port Richey, Florida, led to a chemical reaction creating a new material that is transitional between space minerals and minerals found on Earth. High-energy events, such as lightning, can cause unique chemical...
  • Warm liquid spewing from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault, could offer clues to earthquake hazards
    Tuesday, April 11, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Oceanographers discovered warm, chemically distinct liquid shooting up from the seafloor about 50 miles off Newport. They named the unique underwater spring 'Pythia's Oasis.' Observations suggest the spring is sourced from water 2.5...
  • Readers reply: could rocks be conscious? Why are some things conscious and some not?
    Sunday, April 9, 2023 from Geology | The Guardian
    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Could rocks be conscious? Why are some things conscious and some...
  • Was plate tectonics occurring when life first formed on Earth?
    Tuesday, April 4, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers used small zircon crystals to unlock information about magmas and plate tectonic activity in early Earth. The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely occurring more than 4.2 billion years ago...
  • Surprise effect: Methane cools even as it heats
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Most climate models do not yet account for a recent discovery: methane traps a great deal of heat in Earth's atmosphere, but also creates cooling clouds that offset 30% of the heat.
  • Giant volcanic 'chain' spills secrets on inner workings of volcanoes
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Volcanic relics scattered throughout the Australian landscape are a map of the northward movement of the continent over a 'hotspot' inside the Earth, during the last 35 million years.
  • Geoscientists shed a light on life's evolution 800 million years ago
    Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Is nitrate responsible for algae, flowers, and even your neighbors? A team of geoscientists have unearthed evidence that may indicate yes.
  • 'Rock stars' solve long-standing diamond conundrum
    Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Two researchers have used a standard laptop computer and a humble piece of rock -- from the 'waste pile' of a diamond mine -- to solve a long-held geological conundrum about how diamonds formed in the deep roots of the earth's ancient...
  • Activity deep in Earth affects the global magnetic field
    Thursday, March 16, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Compass readings that do not show the direction of true north and interference with the operations of satellites are a few of the problems caused by peculiarities of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field radiates around the...
  • Where did Earth's water come from? Not melted meteorites, according to scientists
    Wednesday, March 15, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study brings scientists one step closer to answering the question of where Earth's water came from.
  • Changing landscapes alter disease-scapes
    Monday, March 13, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study has?highlighted?how and when?changes to the environment result in?animal-borne disease?thresholds?being breeched, allowing for?a?better understanding and?increased?capacity to?predict?the?risk of?transmissions.
  • The world's atmospheric rivers now have an intensity ranking like hurricanes
    Thursday, March 9, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Atmospheric rivers, which are long, narrow bands of water vapor, are becoming more intense and frequent with climate change. A new study demonstrates that a recently developed scale for atmospheric river intensity (akin to the hurricane...
  • Life in the smoke of underwater volcanoes
    Thursday, March 9, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Disconnected from the energy of the sun, the permanently ice-covered Arctic deep sea receives miniscule amounts of organic matter that sustains life. Bacteria which can harvest the energy released from submarine hydrothermal sources...
  • A pool at Yellowstone is a thumping thermometer
    Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Doublet Pool's regular thumping is more than just an interesting tourist attraction. A new study shows that the interval between episodes of thumping reflects the amount of energy heating the pool at the bottom, as well as in indication...
  • Gas monitoring at volcanic fields outside Naples, Italy, exposes multiple sources of carbon dioxide emissions
    Tuesday, March 7, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    The Phlegraean volcanic fields just west of Naples, Italy, are among the top eight emitters of volcanic carbon dioxide in the world. Since 2005, the Solfatara crater -- one of many circular depressions in the landscape left by a long...
  • Mineral particles and their role in oxygenating the Earth's atmosphere
    Monday, March 6, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Mineral particles played a key role in raising oxygen levels in the Earth's atmosphere billions of years ago, with major implications for the way intelligent life later evolved, according to new research.
  • Mississippi River Delta study reveals which human actions contribute to land loss
    Monday, March 6, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Scientists reveal new information about the role humans have played in large-scale land loss in the Mississippi River Delta -- crucial information in determining solutions to the crisis.
  • Most detailed geological model reveals Earth's past 100 million years
    Friday, March 3, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Previous models of Earth's recent (100 million years) geomorphology have been patchy at best. For the first time a detailed continuous model of the Earth's landscape evolution is presented, with potential for understanding long-term...
  • Robot provides unprecedented views below Antarctic ice shelf
    Thursday, March 2, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    With the help of an underwater robot, known as Icefin, a U.S.- New Zealand research team has obtained an unprecedented look inside a crevasse at Kamb Ice Stream -- revealing more than a century of geological processes beneath the...
  • New study could help pinpoint hidden helium gas fields -- and avert a global supply crisis
    Wednesday, March 1, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Helium -- essential for many medical and industrial processes -- is in critically short supply worldwide. Production is also associated with significant carbon emissions, contributing to climate change. This study provides a new concept...
  • Climate trends in the west, today and 11,000 years ago
    Monday, February 27, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    What we think of as the classic West Coast climate began just about 4,000 years ago, finds a study on climate trends of the Holocene era.
  • Mysteries of the Earth: Researchers predict how fast ancient magma ocean solidified
    Monday, February 27, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Previous research estimated that it took hundreds of million years for the ancient Earth's magma ocean to solidify, but new research narrows these large uncertainties down to less than just a couple of million years.
  • Ancient proteins offer new clues about origin of life on Earth
    Monday, February 27, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    By simulating early Earth conditions in the lab, researchers have found that without specific amino acids, ancient proteins would not have known how to evolve into everything alive on the planet today -- including plants, animals, and...
  • Early Cretaceous shift in the global carbon cycle affected both land and sea
    Wednesday, February 22, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Geologists doing fieldwork in southeastern Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation found carbon isotope evidence that the site, though on land, experienced the same early Cretaceous carbon-cycle change recorded in marine sedimentary rocks in...
  • Deep earthquakes could reveal secrets of the Earth's mantle
    Wednesday, February 22, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study suggests there may be a layer of surprisingly fluid rock ringing the Earth, at the very bottom of the upper mantle.
  • Meteorite crater discovered in French winery
    Wednesday, February 22, 2023 from Geology News -- ScienceDaily
    Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for example, that meteorites brought with them a large part of its water. The extinction of the dinosaurs might also have been...
  • Terrawatch: why has the Earth’s spinning inner core slowed down?
    Wednesday, February 22, 2023 from Geology | The Guardian
    The solid inner core is contained within the liquid outer core, enabling it to rotate differently from the Earth itself Earth’s inner core appears to have stopped spinning faster than its mantle. New measurements suggest that the...
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