Tag: geology

A cataclysmic asteroid collision may not sound like the starting place for life. But 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub ...

Martin Köhler stands in front of the Maka Lahi boulder in TongaMartin Köhler/University of Queensland A 1200-tonne boulder in Tonga ...

Underneath miles-deep ice sheets covering Antarctica lies the largest mountain range no one on Earth has ever seen. Even though ...

Although volcanic eruptions can strike when least expected, they sometimes give off warning signs that can be captured by advanced ...

Melting glaciers in North America 10,000 years ago may have given continental drift a bit of a push. Similar activity ...

Rocks on the coast of Iceland couldn’t possibly tell us anything about the Roman Empire. Or could they? According to ...

Ask any geologist about the magma reservoir beneath Yellowstone, and they’ll tell you that it’s there. But where, exactly, is ...

Although the magnetic field of Mars hasn’t been in effect for billions of years, the evidence it left behind may ...

Among the vast forests, herds of bison, and steaming geysers, a new hydrothermal feature has emerged at Yellowstone National Park. After ...

Gas emissions, earthquakes, and ground deformations. These are all signs that a volcano is about to erupt, and they are ...