This diagram shows the Pacific large igneous provinces included in a study by Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences researchers. Sections colored in red were visited by Esteban Gazel and his team, while the entire Pacific Large Low Shear Velocity...
A fog blanketed London in December 1952, killing as many as 12,000 people and puzzling researchers for decades. Texas A&M researchers believe they have solved the mystery.Image Credit: Flickr/RV1864
Few Americans may be aware of it, but in 1952 a...
New stress maps of Texas and Oklahoma, with black lines indicating stress orientation. Blue-green colors indicate regions of extension in the crust, while yellow-orange areas are indicative of crustal compression.Credit: Jens-Erik Lund Snee
New maps of the geologic forces contributing...
Saint Louis University researchers report new information about conditions that can cause the Earth's tectonic plates to sink into the Earth.
In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Saint Louis University researchers report new...
The low-to-moderate intensity surface fire in this prescribed burn will lower the fuel load in this forest in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Credit: Alan H. Taylor
Forest fire activity in California's Sierra Nevada since 1600 has been influenced more by...
Researchers will survey a new site Little Dome C, which is located 50 kms away from the French-Italian station of Concordia, based at Dome C. Credit: British Antarctic Survey
First phase of project to collect 1.5 million years of climate...
Lightning is not only about public safety -- lightning strike data have recently been introduced into weather prediction, and a new UW study shows ways to apply them in storm forecasts.Image Credit: Flickr/Tom VanNortwick
Humans have always been frightened and...
Fourteen GPS stations across Australia show the direction of the continent's shift from month to month.Credit: Shin-Chan Han
Australia shifts and tilts back and forth by several millimeters each year because of changes to Earth's center of mass, according to...
Researchers led by Princeton scientists successfully operated a new instrument, the CHARIS spectrograph, which allows them to make detailed observations of planets orbiting distant stars. Above, a plot of data from CHARIS shows planets located around a star in...
The Alps are steadily "growing" by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the formerly glaciated subcontinents of North America and Scandinavia are also undergoing constant upward movement. This is due to the fact that at the end...
Scientists have found a key indicator in determining whether the presence of carbon, found in the Earth's mantle, is derived from continental crust - a step toward better understanding the history of crustal formation on Earth's surface and the...
