Rock samples aren’t archived or shared: An international group of geologists make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks
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US Geological Survey volcano news
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Greenland's Grand Canyon – UMass Amherst and the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Ice & Climate propose a new mechanism for how the megacanyon formed
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Research reveals possible active tectonic system on the moon
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About 14,650 years ago, sea level jumped twelve meters in just a few centuries—a puzzling past sea level rise might have its missing piece
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Awakening volcanic region in Iceland could cause disruption for centuries – Reykjanes peninsula's last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years
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Greenland glacier collapse – a new study combining historical photos with evidence from ocean sediments suggests climate change was already at work in the 1930s
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A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to data from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission
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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits between Cuba and Jamaica
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Mt. Þorbjörn, Reykjanes – Icelandic volcano swell signals potential eruption
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Impacts Project: Low-resolution PDF
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Why scientists fall for precariously balanced rocks
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Taal volcano spews lava, ash as fears of 'hazardous eruption' persist in the Philippines
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That time the Mediterranean Sea disappeared
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Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why.
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What are lost continents, and why are we discovering so many?
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New South Wales and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north
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New Zealand volcano: Tourists injured and missing after eruption on White Island (live updates)
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Three studies describe different parts of the 2018 Kīlauea caldera collapse
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Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution?
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The 160-mile-long Garlock fault in California has begun moving for the first time on record; has the potential of producing a magnitude eight earthquake
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Earliest signs of life
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How to save a glacier – Iceland's scientists offer hope with carbon capture technology
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Scientists discover new evidence of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs
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India's Chandrayaan-2 mission ready for historic landing on the Moon
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This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite. Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron...
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron carbide mineral from the Wedderburn iron meteorite." PDF link
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The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch
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Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter the desert floor in stunning before-and-after images
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Borgarhraun eruption – magma speed record set by Icelandic volcano
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Researchers in Norway have found a freshwater pond on the seabed outside the country's western coast
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NASA maps surface changes from California quakes
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7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California
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Largest earthquake in decades hits Southern California, measuring 6.4 magnitude
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Scientists have identified more than fifty new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland ice sheet
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The ticket to 100% renewable power is underneath our feet
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Mary Anning inspired 'she sells sea shells' — but she was actually a legendary fossil hunter
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The cataclysmic break that (maybe) occurred in 1950
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What remains - For the past 148 years, Yosemite’s Lyell Glacier has taught us about the Earth — how it was created, where it was going, and now, how it might end
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500 million years of climate history pinned on plate tectonics
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Animation of Earth's magnetic pole shift
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Earth's magnetic pole is wandering, lurching toward Siberia
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The mad scramble to claim the world's most coveted meteorite
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Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
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Geologists show Tasmania and the Grand Canyon were connected on ancient supercontinent
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Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
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Two French rivers disappear underground in large cracks and sinkholes
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Underwater fiber-optic cables could moonlight as earthquake sensors
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Mars may have underground liquid water
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Why are lakes and rivers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains so brilliantly turquoise blue?
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When will the Earth try to kill us again: Most mass extinctions began with vast convulsions of Earth’s interior—can we detect that?
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