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Mineral exploration gets artificial intelligence boost
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (407+ words) China unveiled geological mapping and mineral exploration systems powered by artificial intelligence technologies on Friday, marking a shift from decades of expert-driven fieldwork to more accurate, comprehensive and efficient data — and algorithm-based predictions. The two systems — AI-GeoMapping and AI-OreSeeking — were…...
Geologic Hydrogen Exploration: Michigan Invests $7.5 Million in Clean Energy Research
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (143+ words) Michigan is investing $7.5 million to explore naturally occurring geologic hydrogen, funding mapping, test wells and regulatory readiness as part of a statewide clean energy initiative. Start a free 7-day trial for unlimited articles plus hydrogen company, project & technology intelligence. Cancel…...
Ryugu’s Hidden Chemistry Reveals How Space Rocks May Have Delivered Life’s Ingredients To Earth
17+ hour, 34+ min ago (723+ words) Ancient dust from asteroid Ryugu reveals how nitrogen-rich compounds may have formed and survived before reaching young planets. Tiny grains collected from asteroid Ryugu have revealed how nitrogen-rich compounds may have formed and survived in space before reaching young planets....
Italy’s Apennine Mountains mystery: Why is Earth’s crust slowly ‘unzipping’ deep underground, and what is happening beneath the surface?
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (470+ words) Scientists studying Italy’s Apennine Mountains have found a strange process deep below the surface. The Earth’s crust in this region appears to be slowly pulling apart, almost like a zip opening from underground. The finding comes from researchers at the…...
Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (635+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
Earth's Crust Is 'Unzipping' Under Italy
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (606+ words) Deep beneath our feet, the slow machinery of Earth is always turning....
Tanzania’s Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only active volcano known to erupt natrocarbonatite, the coolest lava on Earth: it flows at roughly 500–590°C, against 1,100°C or more for Hawaiian basalt. Fresh flows look black or dark brown in daylight, then react with rain and atmospheric moisture until the mountainside turns chalk-white—as though someone spilled milk over the lava.
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (791+ words) Ol Doinyo Lengai’s 500–590°C carbonate lava flows black, then atmospheric moisture and rain transform its unstable minerals into pale, rapidly weathering surfaces....
800 million years old - Scientists discover 'fingerprints' of supercontinent Gondwana in ancient rocks
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (286+ words) Gondwana is an ancient continent which scientists have now confirmed was a supercontinent that spread over 80 per cent of the landmass on Earth. They found 25,000 ancient rocks, and AI helped them determine that they belonged to Gondwana 500 million years ago....
In New Research, Alpine Geologist Traces the Forces Behind the Big Bend’s Dramatic Landscapes
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (521+ words) It’s a hallmark of any westering journey beyond the Pecos in Texas. As woodlands give way to plains and desert, the land itself seems to stretch, the horizons to widen. It reflects a geological reality. The American West is slowly…...
Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9004: Construction of a Long-Lived Hydrothermal Architecture for W, Au-Sb Deposits During Variscan Belt Thermal Collapse, French Massif Central (330–295 Ma)
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (412+ words) Since pioneering fluid-flow models for the Iberian and French Variscan belt, advances in geochronology, thermochronology, and geodynamic modeling have improved our understanding of late Variscan crustal evolution. New datasets suggest tungsten and gold mineralization do not represent distinct metallogenic events,…...