Geology - Page 33

October 20, 2015

Researchers find possible traces of continent off coast of Brazil

A research team says they have found an area off the coast of Brazil that may have contained parts of the original continent Pangaea, which existed before the Americas, Africa and other land masses drifted apart.

October 20, 2015

Epic glacier collapse caught on camera

Amateur photographer Christian Grosso got a surprise recently when he visited a glacier in Argentina's Patagonia region: an enormous ice bridge connected to the glacier ruptured and fell, causing a huge wave in the lake below.

October 20, 2015

50-million-year-old redwood chunk found in diamond mine

A search for diamonds in Canada's far north turned up a rare fossil — a chunk of a redwood sealed in volcanic rock more than 50 million years ago.

October 20, 2015

Far below South Dakota, a cave holds pure, promising water

Hundreds of feet beneath the Black Hills, a team of scientists and researchers snake through dark, narrow and silent corridors of ancient rock to reach their goal: what is thought to be some of ...

October 20, 2015

Iceland rising as much as 1.4 inches a year, could increase volcanic activity

A University of Arizona-led research team discovered the Earth’s crust under Iceland is rebounding as global warming melts the island’s great ice caps.

October 20, 2015

Hawaii lava flow is slow, gentle yet unrelenting as it edges close to town's road, homes

Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess, moves gradually and persistently as she deposits lava across the Big Island of Hawaii. People in the small town lying in its path say the lava will reshape th...

October 20, 2015

Deep, hidden trench discovered beneath Antarctic glacier

Ice-penetrating radar has uncovered a previously unknown ice-covered trench, and other detailed terrain, in the bedrock hidden beneath two massive, bluish glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica

October 20, 2015

Mysterious Colorado rock formation may be result of 'natural fracking'

An ancient, catastrophic flood or earthquake may explain how a bewildering rock formation in Colorado's Rocky Mountains formed, a new study finds

October 20, 2015

Earth's oldest rocks hold essential ingredient for life

A critical building block for creating the first life on Earth was found in 3.8-billion-year-old rocks from Isua, Greenland, researchers reported at the annual Goldschmidt geochemistry conference.

October 20, 2015

Chunk of Africa found underneath Southeastern US

Geoscientists have identified a chunk of Africa stuck onto the southeastern United States.