January 2015

Dozens of new Ichthyosaur Found

Dozens of nearly complete skeletons of prehistoric marine reptiles have been uncovered near a melting glacier in south…

Geologists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, began discovering asbestos where none should be -- in granite rocks…

Color-shaded relief map with simplified tectonic units of eastern Asia. Since the Late Cretaceous, lithosphere extension…

A study led by atmospheric physicists at the University of Toronto finds that global warming will not lead to an overal…

The Richter Scale The Richter magnitude scale (also Richter scale) assigns a magnitude number to quantify the energy release…

Oil platform silhouette in Gulf of Mexico (stock image). A new study finds that some 6 million to 10 million gallons are…

This global positioning satellite receiver is part of Iceland's network of 62 such receivers that geoscientists are …

Mars has two differently shaped hemispheres: the lowlands of the northern hemisphere and the volcanic highlands (yellow t…

A technology developed by Stanford scientists for passively probing the seafloor using weak seismic waves generated by …

Pieces of sediment from the Cretaceous period encased in lava floated to the surface with the underwater eruption of El…

Earth's magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet's surface from deadly…

Research at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has discovered that a 'slope' on the ocean surface in th…

Akun Island is located in the Aleutian Islands chain of Alaska. It is known for its impressive columnar basalt formations ,…

$Geothermal microbial reservoirs: Staircase fractures in microbialites and travertines$

Figure 7 from Maggi et al.: Examples of gentle slope deposits are shown. Scattered fractures with staircase geometry sho…