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Search for glass beads to reveal the past. rickmach

Meteorite impacts leave behind time capsules of ecosystems

Meteorite impacts can be very destructive. One that fell in Mexico around 66m years ago created a 180km crater and caused the extinction of dinosaurs while spewing debris and molten rock into the air…

Chelyabinsk meteor melted before exploding

Analysis of fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite shows it either collided with another body before hitting the atmosphere…

Deep Earth carbon cycles cracked

Carbon modelling is easier to create for surface cycles, but deep in the Earth’s crust things become a lot more difficult…
It’s time we got to the core of our planet’s early history. Derringdos

What on Earth! Hot news on our planet’s formation

As of today, the world might have changed forever. A fundamental assumption underpinning much of modern geochemistry is that the earth has the same composition as a class of meteorites called chondrites…

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