Tag: Geology

Let's talk some mountains.

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.

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

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

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 ...