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In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.
On March 31, 2023, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolted the waters off the southwestern coast of West Sumbawa, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The quake, occurring at 22:54 local time, had its epicenter ...
Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from ...
UNESCO has included sixteen new Global Geoparks, among them two significant geoparks from Indonesia: Kebumen Geopark and ...
Researchers have discovered two new species in a 125-million-year-old fossil in China. While they’d be wiped out by a T-Rex ...
Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature," David B. Williams slows down and takes a close look at Seattle.
Located along one of the world's most active seismic belts, Myanmar's many fault lines and shifting tectonic plates have long ... a stark illustration of the vulnerability even in regions not ...
This Tuesday, 1st April, in the south-west of Iceland, the volcano Sundhnúkagígar erupted, resulting in a massive fissure in the ground. This fissure extends for 1.2km long, near the famous Blue ...