Tag: geology

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy chewing with relatively massive jaws, and...
A recent study by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, explores the transformation of elk rock art in the Mongolian Altai. Her research sheds light on the possible factors that influenced these changes,...

Mexico City’s local geology could amplify damage from moderate earthquakes

A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, prompting researchers to wonder how...

Earliest evidence of deep-cave rituals in Southwest Asia discovered

A cave in Galilee, Israel, has yielded evidence for ritualistic gatherings 35,000 years ago, the earliest on the Asian continent. Three Israeli researchers led...

Scientists solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon’s ‘lopsided’ geology

About 4.5 billion years ago, a small planet smashed into the young Earth, flinging molten rock into space. Slowly, the debris coalesced, cooled and...

Earthquake shakes Turkey

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4 on the Richter scale has struck Turkey. The news of the earthquake was reported by EMSC. The earthquake was...

Dozens buried, three killed in southwest China landslide

Dozens of people were buried and three were confirmed killed when a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China on Monday. The...

Horrific moment mountain collapses in Colombia after heavy rain in landslide that killed at least 33 and injured many more

This is the horror moment a mountain collapses in Colombia after heavy rain, killing more than 30 and injuring dozens of others. The landslide occurred...

Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Mariana Islands region in the Pacific

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck near the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, according to an announcement from the US Geological Survey. The earthquake...

Singapore’s coasts are historically more resilient against sea-level rise than previously thought

During the Holocene epoch, which began around 11,700 years ago, coastlines globally retreated due to thousands of years of rising sea levels. However, a...

Making Arctic field geology accessible by digitizing outcrops

The Svalbox Digital Model Database (DMDb) just made its formal debut into the scientific community in a new article published in the journal Geosphere. The...

Geology experts find evidence of dual mass extinctions 260 million years ago

Long before dinosaurs, Earth was dominated by animals that were in many ways even more incredible. Carnivores such as Titanophoneus, or "titanic murderer," stalked enormous...

Mineral-microbe interactions play important roles in geological and environmental processes

In a paper published in National Science Review, a team of scientists critically summarize major advances in mineral-microbe interactions, including molecular mechanisms of interactions...

Earthquake faults are smarter than we usually think

Northwestern University researchers now have an answer to a vexing age-old question: Why do earthquakes sometimes come in clusters? The research team has developed a...

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