October 2015

Mass gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet greater than losses

This map shows the rates of mass changes from ICESat 2003-2008 over Antarctica. Sums are for all of Antarctica: East Anta…

What Makes Geology Different From Other Sciences?

What Makes Geology Different From Other Sciences? Who are Geologists and Geoscientists? They are people like you who …

Large Igneous Provinces Linked to Extinction Events

Middle-Late Permian large igneous provinces Mass extinction events are sometimes portrayed in illustrations of volcan…

Tilted Rock Layers

Tilted Rock Layers Tilted rock layers: The sedimentary layers in this large roadcut near Denver, Colorado, USA can be…

Asteroid to narrowly miss Earth on Halloween

An asteroid the size of a football stadium will zoom past Earth on Halloween, in a close encounter that astronomers vi…

Dinosaurs used nasal passages to keep brains cool

"My work represents the first test of the hypothesis that the elaborated nasal passages of large dinosaurs functio…

Scientists develop a new method for predicting volcanic eruptions

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, have developed a new method w…

Mammoths might have survived except for bad 'mineral diet'

At the end of the Pleistocene mammoths of Northern Eurasia used to experience chronic mineral hunger. As a result they bec…

Scientist to drill to the Earth’s mantle beneath the Atlantic Ocean

Scientists are setting sail from Southampton for the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, to drill rocks that were once part …

Amazing Geological Fault at Blue Anchor Bay

Fault at Blue Anchor Bay, Somerset, England | This shows a normal fault and a continental to marine transition. The red…

Causes of Afghanistan and Pakistan Earthquake 2015

On 26 October 2015, at 14:45 (09:09 UTC), a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck South Asia, ShakeMap of the 2015 Afghanista…

How we discovered that the Earth's inner core is older than previously thought

Dating the Earth’s enigmatic inner core: a Pluto-sized ball of iron that is super hot and frozen at the same time. Cre…

Columnar Sandstones Are Very Unique Structure

There are only a few places in the world where you can find sandstone formations like these. For example: Canada, South…