Author: contact.geology

Significant solar flare erupts from sun

The sun emitted a significant solar flare on March 30, 2022, peaking at 1:35 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun...

Periodic volcanism may have triggered multiple Jurassic extinctions

Severe environmental crises led to a series of large-scale extinction events in the Jurassic period 178-186 million years (myr) ago. The turmoil has been...

Dinosaurs ‘already in decline’ before asteroid apocalypse

Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has...

Why there is increase in Oklahoma’s earthquakes

In 2015 alone, residents of Oklahoma felt the earth move beneath them a total of 907 times, as an unprecedented number of magnitude three...

Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realize

Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth's most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, research has...

A billion-year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought

Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs...

Research team proves Mercury has magnetic storms

An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. The research by...

How carbonates behave in the Earth’s interior

Carbonates are the most important carbon reservoirs on the planet. But what role do they play in the Earth’s interior? How do they react...

Traces of life in the Earth’s deep mantle

The rapid development of fauna 540 million years ago has permanently changed the Earth — deep into its lower mantle. A team led by...

Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar system

While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity and collisions. Brandon Johnson studies the latter, using information...

Solar energy explains fast yearly retreat of Antarctica’s sea ice

In the Southern Hemisphere, the ice cover around Antarctica gradually expands from March to October each year. During this time the total ice area...

Where does all Earth’s gold come from?

Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that...

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