geology

Low-flying airplanes will soon be visible to residents in parts eastern and central Alabama, northwestern Florida, and western Georgia. The survey will begin in early January and continue through spring 2024, weather permitting. The…

We already have evidence that rock dust can remove carbon dioxide from the air – now there are signs that spreading the dust on farm fields also enhances crop growth

Twenty years ago, deep beneath Botswana’s Kalahari desert, Thomas Gernon found himself walking in what seemed like hell. The temperature soared as the sound of explosions echoed off the walls. “It was like a baptism…

The W&M Geology Departmental Spring field trip left the Atlantic Coastal Plain last Sunday morning for a quick dash westward into the Piedmont: a day trip with equal measures of geology and history in the mix. As is our tradition,…

The W&M Geology Departmental Spring field trip left the Atlantic Coastal Plain last Sunday morning for a quick dash westward into the Piedmont: a day trip with equal measures of geology and history in the mix. As is our…

The W&M Geology Departmental Spring field trip left the Atlantic Coastal Plain last Sunday morning for a quick dash westward into the Piedmont: a day trip with equal measures of geology and history in the mix. As is our…

The W&M Geology Departmental Spring field trip left the Atlantic Coastal Plain last Sunday morning for a quick dash westward into the Piedmont: a day trip with equal measures of geology and history in the mix. As is our…

Has Earth entered a new geologic epoch? Perhaps notShutterstock/Dima Zel Efforts to put the Anthropocene on the geological timescale have fallen at the first hurdle, shocking members of the consulting scientific body…

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A series of recent earthquakes near the South Texas town of Falls City can likely be attributed to the region’s petroleum production and wastewater disposal well injections, according to professors in Texas…

An eruption cracked through the silence of night last December 18 as molten rock burst from the…

Some Bacillus bacteria can convert CO2 to rock in extreme environmentsDavid Marchal/Getty Images Bacteria may be able to accelerate the mineralisation of carbon dioxide under extreme conditions. Injecting such…

Some Bacillus bacteria can convert CO2 to rock in extreme environmentsDavid Marchal/Getty Images Bacteria found deep in a mine shaft in South Dakota may be able to accelerate the mineralisation of carbon dioxide…

An ocean research vessel has just discovered four underwater mountains, the tallest almost 3 kilometres high, that might be hotspots of deep-sea life

A few years ago, Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs poked around the internet for a global map of…

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Fatima Husain grew up in the heart of the Midwest, surrounded by agriculture. “Every time you left your home, you saw fields of corn and soybeans. And it was really quite beautiful,” she says. During elementary…

Speaker Haraldur Sigurdsson, Emeritus Professor, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island Iceland Rifting Today Abstract As an exposed segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland is a valuable and…

Thousands of Japanese rescuers, some with sniffer dogs, on Thursday battled rubble and blocked roads as hopes faded for dozens listed as missing three days after a devastating earthquake that killed at least 84.Hundreds of people in more…

RESTON, Vir. — A low-flying airplane will soon be visible to residents in parts of northeastern and central Florida and southeastern Georgia. The survey will begin in late November and last potentially through February 2024, weather…

If you’ve ever looked out the window of an airplane, you might have seen beautiful meandering and braided river systems cutting their way through the Earth. Fly over that same area again a few years later, and…

US astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon in 1969NASA Humanity’s influence on the moon is so great that we should define a new geological epoch, just as we are doing on Earth with the creation of the…

Robert Thorson Professor of…

KINGSTON — J.P. Walsh, director of the University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Center and…

Earth is thought to have collided with a Mars-sized planet billions of years agoNASA There may be chunks of an ancient planet trapped in Earth’s mantle. The prevailing theory of the moon’s formation is called the…

Dust may have sustained an ‘impact winter’ for 15 yearseva_mask/Shutterstock When a huge asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, clouds of dust from pulverised rocks blocked out the sun for 15 years. This dust may…

As rock is carved by the wind, it can take on a sphinx-like shape, meaning the Great Sphinx in Egypt may have been partly formed through natural processes

Researchers used ice-penetrating radar to survey the topography of Antarctica from aeroplanesICECAP A landscape shaped by rivers and glaciers over millions of years appears to have been preserved beneath the East…

The iron-rich core at the centre of the Earth is squishy like rubberMaksym Yemelyanov/Alamy Earth’s inner core is surprisingly soft, and wiggling iron atoms may help explain why. The innermost part of our planet is a…

The city of Seattle, Washington in front of Mt. RainierShutterstock / TomKli Two faults near the city of Seattle, Washington ruptured at around the same time 1100 years ago – and if such an event happened again, it…

In the quiet hall outside of Hayden Library, Zoe Levitt’s soft, musical voice fills the room. The acoustics are perfect for amplifying her words and her innate passion for geology. Or, more specifically,…

Seismic waves from a big quake are easy to see—think of the classic image of a seismograph, pencil scratching out telltale waves on a rotating paper as the tremor arrives. Even to highly trained eyes, PEGS are just squiggles,…

TORONTO, April 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is pleased to see the Government of Canada putting a spotlight on the mineral industry in Federal Budget 2022 by announcing…

The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago saw a huge variety of animals evolve – and also led to carbon being buried in the seabed…