Researchers uncover source rocks of the first real continents, explaining the growth and differentiation of the continental crust during the Archaean without requiring external forcing such as meteorite impact or the start of global plate tectonics.

Duration of Sturtian “Snowball Earth” glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing

Zapping ‘red mud’ in plasma turns mine waste into valuable iron - A simple process quickly extracts iron and renders the rest largely benign

The birth of the volcanic island of Surtchey in Iceland in 1963

Largest known deep-sea coral reef mapped off US Atlantic coast

Amazon Forest exist because of Sahara desert

New research looking at marine and terrestrial mercury record across the K/Pg boundary concludes the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was a complex catastrophe caused by volcanism driving major climate fluctuations and ocean acidification…

Iron Snow Ebb and Flow May Cause Magnetic Fields to Come and Go - Lab experiments find that iron crystals in planetary cores may form in bursts, causing periodic dynamos.

Fun 3rd Grade Force and Motion Activities - Thrifty in Third Grade

Discovery Alert: Nepal Unveils 6 More Eight-Thousanders, Expanding the Total to 20 Peaks Above 8000 Meters

Greener trees can provide early warning of volcanic awakening years in advance

The first petrographic characterisation of a prehistoric rock crystal mine in the Swiss Alps - Scientific Reports

Tiny stresses are capable of triggering earthquakes and tremors in Arunachal Himalaya - Scientific Reports

Detecting groundwater level changes related to the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake - Scientific Reports

Study on the mechanism and response law of fracture movement on the super-high position hard-thick strata | Scientific Reports

A previously unrecognized active fault has been discovered 10 km north of downtown Victoria, British Columbia

The Great Wall of China Is coated in a living substance that shields it from harm

Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage for the dinosaur extinction, challenging the traditional narrative that a meteorite alone delivered the final blow to the ancient giants.

(Open access) Where ice gave way to fire: deglacial volcanic activity at the edge of the Coast Mountains in Milbanke Sound, BC

Most monstrous Marsquake ever reveals where it came from — a seismic event that looked like an impact, but no craters to be seen

Scientists have identified remnants of a 'Buried Planet' deep within the Earth

California Supervolcano is Cooling Off but May Still Cause Quakes

Stonehenge's Altar Stone is not Welsh, Aberystwyth University says

Scientists are still debating just how much of a role volcanism may have played in the K–Pg extinction event

The Pontus Plate - A massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean has been reconstructed

Geologists have discovered the fragments of a microcontinent (Argoland) that must have broken off northwestern Australia in the Late Jurassic (∼160 Ma) and drifted north towards SE Asia

Large-scale explosive release of methane and CO2 in shallow water linked to the start of a sudden warming event c. 56 million years ago

Developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, the AI algorithm correctly predicted 70% of earthquakes a week before they happened during a seven-month trial in China.

Scientists have unveiled important information on The Great Oxidation Event by studying apatite inclusions in zircon crystals from ancient magmas

There's an enormous gravity hole in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Scientists say they've finally worked out what's causing it.

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