Methods of Gold Mining
Methods of Gold Mining. The Super Pit gold mine in Australia Gold mining is the process of mining of gold or gold ores…
November 2014
Geologists shed light on formation of Alaska Range
Professor Paul Fitzgerald and a team of students and fellow scientists have been studying the Alaska Range along the Den…
The living, breathing ocean
DeVries and Deutsch mapped out the O2:P ratio of microbial respiration at a 200-meter depth in the ocean. Phytopla…
Another human footprint in the ocean: Rising anthropogenic nitrate levels in North Pacific Ocean
The rate of deposition of reactive nitrogen (i.e., nitrogen oxides from fossil fuel burning and ammonia compounds from f…
Complete Tiny Dinosaur Skeleton Discovered In South Korea
An illustration of a microraptor, which the dinosaur fossil closely resembles. A tiny dinosaur about the size of a …
Subtle shifts in the Earth could forecast earthquakes, tsunamis
Earthquakes and tsunamis can be giant disasters no one sees coming, but now an international team of scientists led by…
Geological Fieldwork
Planning. Why are you doing it? Are you going as a general exploration or do you have definite reason? Your motive…
Geologists Solve Mystery of Siberian Crater
This first giant crater measuring around 262ft and found in far northern Siberia is believed to have been caused by risi…
Turn Peanut Butter to Diamonds? This Geologist Did It
In a lab, scientists have turned peanut butter into diamonds. Peanut butter, of course, is rich in carbon. A team of…
January-October 2014 temperatures highest on record
The global average temperature over land and ocean surfaces for January to October 2014 was the highest on record, accor…
How Did Continents Split? Geology Study Shows New Picture
The paper — the cover story in the latest issue of Geology, the journal of the Geological Society of America — is the…
Collection and Curation of Geological Materials
Why collect? Collecting is fun, but before you start you should consider carefully the ethics of collecting if you c…
Giant channels discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf
The ice shelf channel is clearly visible on the MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica image map; The channels are likely t…
New Study Finds that Single Impact Killed Dinosaurs
The dinosaurs, along with the majority of all other animal species on Earth, went extinct approximately 65 million yea…
Why is Greenland covered in ice?
scientists at the University of Bristol and the University of Leeds show that only changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide…
Diamonds in Earth's oldest zircons are nothing but laboratory contamination
How do you distinguish synthetic diamond from its natural counterpart. As is well known, the Earth is about 4.6 billion …
Geologists Discover Origin of Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds
If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep…
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