A well-preserved whole baby woolly mammoth was discovered at Treadstone Mine in the Yukon’s Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City, on Tuesday. ...
Utah Geologists Translate Vibrations of Rocky Landforms Into Audible Tones
PHOTO CREDIT: Geohazards research group These are the vibrations of Eagle Plume Tower, a rock landform in Southeastern Utah. You won't...
Tectonics of Convergent Plate Margins: New Insights Into Continental Geology
(a) Low-angle subduction, compressional regime prevails in the overlying plate. Because the plate interface is at low geothermal gradients, ...
Weird Water Dynamics Fuel Deep Earthquakes and Fist-Sized Diamonds
Photo Credit: Debswana Diamond Company What causes the deep Earth's most mysterious earthquakes? The cause of Earth's deepest eart...
Grain Size of Rocks in Earth's Mantle Affects Tectonics
The simulation shows how the grain size of the mantle rocks develops when continents break apart along a so-called rift zone. Credit: Jonas ...
Yellowstone's History of Hydrothermal Explosions Over the Past 14,000 Years
Stock image showing a spring at Yellowstone National Park. GETTY IMAGES While much of public attention on Yellowstone focuses on its poten...
New Map Shows Earth’s Tectonic Plates In Unprecedented Detail
Credit: Dr. Derrick Hasterok, University of Adelaide New models that show how the continents were assembled are providing fresh insights i...
Scientists Discover “Ghost” Fossils – “Completely Unexpected”
The images show the impressions of a collapsed cell-wall covering (a coccosphere) on the surface of a fragment of ancient organic matter (le...
Giant Magnetic Waves Have Been Discovered Oscillating Around Earth's Core
This mysterious wave oscillates every seven years and propagates westward at up to 1500 kilometres a year. These waves align in columns alon...