Geology… Asteroid Dust Found in Crater Closes Case of Dinosaur Extinction (Geology / Paleontology) 25 Feb 2021 Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a…
Geology 3D Model Shows Off The Insides of a Giant Permafrost Crater (Geology) 16 Feb 2021 Researchers from the Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and their Skoltech colleagues have surveyed the newest known 30-meter deep gas blowout crater on the…
Geology Clear as Mud: How Tiny Plants Changed the Planet, 488 Million Years Ago (Geology) 1 Feb 2021 Nearly 500 million years ago, Earth's lowland landscapes were dominated by vast sandy, gritty plains. They then underwent a major, irreversible change, after which these landscapes became dominated by thick…
Geology Position-specific Isotope Effects in Butane: New Geochemical Tracer (Geology) 25 Jan 2021 Position-specific isotope analysis (PSIA) is a technique that measures the isotope composition of a certain position in a molecule. It can provide valuable information of the formation mechanisms of a molecule.…
Geology What Might Earth’s Next Supercontinent Look Like? New Study Provides Clues (Geology) 22 Jan 2021 From Columbia to Rodinia to Pangaea, Earth has seen a few supercontinents come and go in its ancient past. Now, researchers theorize that these giant landmasses form in regular cycles,…
Geology New Study Finds More than Half of Hudson River Tidal Marshes were Created Accidentally by Humans; Resilient Against Sea Level Rise (Geology) 20 Dec 2020 UMass Amherst geologist and team studied marshes from Wall Street to Albany. In a new study of tidal marsh resilience to sea level rise, geologist and first author Brian Yellen…
Geology A Step Towards Understanding Cloud Mysteries (Geology) 20 Dec 202020 Dec 2020 In Geophysical Research Letters, the scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Germany, and the Politecnico di Torino reported their new findings on how precipitating large raindrops, ice particles can favor…
