If Mars was once habitable, it needed to have water. For the past 3 billion years, it’s been rather cold and dry. But what about the early days?
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Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of years ago.
Geologist Sharmaine Verhaert explains her search for the origins of pink sand found on beaches near Adelaide on The Conversation Weekly.
Before sending humans to Mars, NASA will first return humans to the Moon’s surface to test its technology and train astronauts.
Otherworldly karst landscapes, such as Western Australia’s famous Pinnacles, hold clues about Earth’s climate history – and future.
Mount Everest is growing surprisingly quickly – but are rivers or earthquakes responsible?
Borrowed from geology, subsurface imaging may help us solve crimes – if we know how best to use the tools.
Rare earth elements aren’t necessarily rare – they’re just difficult to find in economically viable deposits.
We modelled the climate during this period and discovered episodes of intense ocean heating.
Mounting evidence suggests the rubble of an asteroid once formed a ring orbiting our planet’s equator.
The islands’ rocks record the first stage of a huge freeze that would eventually cover the Earth in ice.
The first time Earth’s geologic record – information found inside rocks – has been used to create an animation of this kind.
The National Science Foundation says that the JOIDES Resolution has become too costly to fund. But scientists say its $72 million annual budget pales compared with discoveries the ship has enabled.
Gold nuggets grow much bigger than they should – and electricity produced by earthquakes may be the reason why.
With 88% of its native fauna gone, the Mediterranean took 1.7 million years to recover from the worst extinction event in its history.
Motion deep in the Earth called a mantle wave can lift up the toughest parts of our planet.
We don’t generate power directly from volcanoes, but their presence is a sign that there are good geothermal resources underground that can be tapped.
New research that offers valuable insights into the Earth’s mantle.
Our discovery of a tundra ecosystem, frozen under the center of Greenland’s ice sheet, holds a warning about the threat that climate change poses for the future.
The eruptions that began in 2021 in Iceland could last for centuries, which is bad news for Icelanders but good news for scientists seeking to understand how the inner Earth works.
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Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
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Professor of Geology, Adelaide University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Igneous Petrology/Volcanology, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geophysics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Senior Curator of Geosciences, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Monash University
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Professor in Earth & Climate Science, University of Southampton
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington