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Geology

Two representative theropod tracks from the Koum Basin in northern Cameroon.

Dinosaur Footprints Reveal Ancient Continental Connection Between South America and Africa

Categories Life & Non-humans
A view of Garbh Eileach, the largest island in the Garvellach island chain where the gradational transition into snowball Earth is recorded.

Ancient Scottish and Irish Rocks Unveil Earth’s Icy Past, Shaping Life as We Know It

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
Part of the Nanushk formation

Alaska dinosaur tracks reveal a lush, wet environment

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
MIT geologists determined the original orientation of many of the bedrock samples collected on Mars by the Perseverance rover, depicted in this image rendering. The findings can give scientists clues to the conditions in which the rocks originally formed. Credits:Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Study determines the original orientations of rocks drilled on Mars

Categories Space
The Welsh countryside near the Coed Cochion Quarry, where the fossils were found. Picture: Anthony Clarke

Key moment in the evolution of life on Earth captured in fossils

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
An archaeologist, Eiki Suga, showing fine-grained flint (left) and middle-grained flint (right).

Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools

Categories Brain & Behavior
A lunar zircon grain under a microscope. Credit: Jennika Greer

The moon is 40M years older than previously thought

Categories Space
What happened to Argoland, the continent that broke off western Australia 155 million years ago? Geologists at Utrecht University have now managed to reconstruct the history of the lost continent. As it turns out, Argoland is in fragments, but is still there.

Finding Argoland: How a lost continent resurfaced

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

Meteors help answer riddles about water

Categories Bloggers
Ancient footprints in New Mexico

Study confirms age of oldest fossil human footprints in North America

Categories Social Sciences
A climate intervention strategy called enhanced rock weathering, if applied globally, could help meet a key IPCC goal for slowing climate change, according to new research published in the AGU journal Earth’s Future. Enhanced rock weathering improves soil health, sequesters carbon, and combats ocean acidification.

“Planting” rocks in farms could help meet key IPCC carbon removal goal

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
This raw image from the Curiosity Rover shows the hexagon-shaped mudcracks filled with salt.

New insights into the potential for early steps of biological evolution on Mars

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space
Diamond in its host rock (kimberlite)

Scientists crack the code of what causes diamonds to erupt

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics
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