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Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after...
Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The...
New technique unlocks ancient history of Earth from grains of sand
Curtin researchers have developed a new technique by studying the age of ancient grains of sand from beaches, rivers and rocks from around the...
Plate Tectonics
Seafloor spreading has been slowing down
A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know...
A slow-motion section of the San Andreas fault may not be...
Most people have heard about the San Andreas Fault. It's the 800-mile-long monster that cleaves California from south to north, as two tectonic plates...
Volcanoes
A swarm of 85,000 earthquakes at the Antarctic Orca submarine volcano
Volcanoes can be found even off the coast of Antarctica. At the deep-sea volcano Orca, which has been inactive for a long time, a...
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A swarm of 85,000 earthquakes at the Antarctic Orca submarine volcano
Volcanoes can be found even off the coast of Antarctica. At the deep-sea volcano Orca, which has been inactive for a long time, a...
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Mars
Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers, researchers...
A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars's surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously...
Solving fossil mystery could aid quest for ancient life on Mars
The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks on Earth.
Research which suggests that structures previously...
Moon
Donwilhelmsite : New mineral from the moon could explain what happens...
A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in a lunar meteorite which is helping to explain what happens to materials within...
Has Earth’s oxygen rusted the Moon for billions of years?
To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a...