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Article Two American geologists have theorized that something happened to change the ecological balance, killing off the iron-loving bacteria and swinging conditions on the planet in favour of oxygen-producing microbes. I had ...

Some 10% of the world’s nickel production comes from iron-nickel sulphide (or, if you prefer, sulfide) deposits laid down on seafloors between 2.5 and 3 billion years ago and found in those interesting ultramafic volcanic rocks called komatiites . How these deposits came to be there, however, has ...

The amount of materials downloaded from the AZGS Website set a record in October 2009, with 49.8 Gb transferred. This is the first time it topped the amount from June 2007 when the first set of Earth Fissure maps were released. Geologic Extension Service chief, Mike Conway reports that last month t ...

A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “ geology .” Displayed below are 46 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. ...

I am en route to Santiago in Chile to attend the Chilean Geological Congress, the organisers of which kindly invited me to give one of the keynote lectures (on Friday). I thought therefore that I would point out that Chile has an extraordinary set of very large rock avalanches. Earlier this year, A ...

At the last meeting of my local geological society , they announced that the deadline for our three scholarships , one undergraduate and two graduate, is being extended to December 15 to collect more candidates. This money is meant for research in or near northern California (I guess that means al ...

Last night I attended a presentation on the rock-physics based theory of earthquake precursors (the p-hole theory), and things are moving along nicely. Funders including the World Bank and institutions like the new SUSEL underground lab in South Dakota are supporting research projects. I confess to ...

No, this isn't about a mysterious cosmic visitor that will cause the world to end in 2013. It's about Lake Kivu in Africa, a large rift-valley lake that straddles the Rwanda-Congo border. It is the world's third known erupting lake, after deadly lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon which produced deadl ...

I found two fun things yesterday. First is Mike Russell's CulturePulp online comic, where the latest entry is a spoof on geological disaster movies featuring " Lava Tornado! " Old fuddy-duddy that I am, I've written about the twisted ideas that moviemakers have about geologic hazards, but this guy h ...

We make more concrete than any other material, but the exact nature of cement—the calcium-silica-hydrate called C-S-H that holds concrete together—has always been mysterious. A research team at MIT cracked the mystery and reported how they did it in the September 7 National Academy of Sciences P ...