Tag: Geology

They're the schist.

Most waves form due to winds or tides, but tsunamis have a different cause altogether.

Let's talk some mountains.

Which one is your favorite?

This is the story of the last in a breed of geological titans, a supercontinent we named Gondwana.

Imagine the biggest wave you can imagine. Now make it bigger.

Mars is turning out to be a more interesting place than we thought.

The suspected 9.5 earthquake took place in Chile and would have created huge tsunamis.

This research proves that Mars used to have quite a lot of surface water.

The very detailed map has been released and is free to use.

Thanks to NASA's InSight Mars mission we now have a good picture of the interior of another planet.

If we'd listen to whales more carefully, we could learn more about the oceans' geology.

The Grand Canyon ain't got nothing on this.

The Arctic may be cold outside, but it's pretty hot beneath the surface.

No matter how salty you get, you'll never be as salty as the ocean

Titan is a lot like the Earth... except it's nothing like the Earth.

Ancient Egyptians believed the Nile was eternal -- and they may have been on to something.

We are living in changing times.

This is one of the most exciting volcanic areas in the world.

Bumpy start!

It's a mix of surprisingly old and surprisingly modern.

A giant mystery has been solved.

We'll learn more about our own home in the process, things that we never could here on Earth.

The theory shows that as long as Earth's interior stays hot, it should avoid this fate.

Impossible means nothing if you're a geologist.

Even though the isle was studied extensively, the structures were buried beneath a murky swamp which likely dissuaded previous efforts.

It's not heat, but low pressure that drives this boiling.

It's as old as we can possibly find.

It's not even at retirement age yet.

We don't know whether Mars held life... but there's certainly a lot of potential.

Can't have a devastating water wave without water!

Geologists have made a shocking discovery in a crystal-rich cave in Mexico.

It was adorable, but also terrifying.

Fast geology.

A stunning app put together by Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Project.

It might be a good thing... but we're not sure yet.

It's a new time -- geologically speaking, at least.

Fulfilling the job that scientists and unlucky undergrads have been doing for years, the kinetic machine Jller selects and sorts pebbles found ...

How did South America slot next to Africa? Where was my country a billion years ago?

It's absolutely baffling that we've reached a level where we can not only study the geology of the Earth, but ...

Before WWII, there weren't that many plastics around. Today, we use so much that we could literally plaster the planet ...

Scientists working at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first ever digital geologic map of Alaska.

Gemologists working in Colombo, Sri Lanka, have confirmed the finding of the largest sapphire in the world.

NASA released a stunningly colorful new image of the dwarf planet Pluto, the latest in a series of images that ...

Geological maps can be awesome here on Earth, but when we have geological maps of extraterrestrial bodies... that's when we ...

Havana lawyer, Dr Fidel Castro, in Washington DC, 1959. (Wikipedia) Besides sunshine and sugar cane, what has Cuba got? It ...

NASA's New Horizons shuttle wasn't only taking mind blowing photos of Pluto, it was also peeking at Pluto's moons, especially ...

NASA recently uploaded a strikingly beautiful photograph on their website showing a petrified sand dune on Mars. The image was ...

Australian researchers have uncovered what might be the biggest impact asteroid impact zone in the world - at over 400 ...

The Villarrica volcano in southern Chile erupted in the early hours of Tuesday morning, spewing lava and ash up to ...