Tag: Geology

Amber is not very common, but you can't say it's really uncommon either. Bugs in amber - that's rare, but ...

Fossil hunters have recently unearthed the fossil remains of a species that can easily claim the title of the horniest ...

The idea for this article hit me while I was writing this post about awesome landscapes. I was doing some ...

The Wave, Arizona Photo by Lobineau. The Wave is an astonishing sandstone formation that fascinates photographers ...

Eyjafjallajökull (how ever you pronounce) is a volcano located in Iceland, covered by a small glacier with the same name. ...

On the night of July 9, 1958, an earthquake struck Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle. The result was that ...

There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some ...

If a gate to hell existed, I bet this is how it would look like. Locals from the town of ...

Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically ...

Boy 2009 passed quite quickly, but it didn't go without a blast, that's for sure ! I'm gonna show you ...

Quartz is a hard mineral consisting of silicon and oxygen. It's one of the most common minerals in the Earth's ...

In 2005, a huge 35 mile rift broke the Ethiopian desert apart and immediately led to geological claims that a ...

Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa was doing some ...

It seems science and creationism are just taking sides and throwing rocks at each other; recently, they've taken things to ...

Evolution isn't just for living organisms, as scientists the Carnegie Institution found. They found that more than 3000 of the ...

As a proud student in geophysics, I can tell you that opal is hydrated silicon ...

    I'm not fond of alarmist theories or "bad things are happening, fast" attitude, but... bad things are just ...