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Meteor Crater Impact May Have Triggered Ancient Floods in the Grand Canyon
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (419+ words) A new study suggests that two of Arizona’s most famous landmarks may be linked. When it comes to famous holes in the ground, northern Arizona has two: Grand Canyon and Barringer Meteorite Crater. “These are two iconic features of Arizona....
Vesuvius Eruption Turned This Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass 2,000 Years Ago. Scientists Now Know How It Happened
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (177+ words) A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years....
An Alaskan Mountain Collapsed and Created a 481-Meter Tsunami Taller Than Almost Every Building in the World
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (488+ words) A landslide in Tracy Arm Fjord in Alaska created the second-largest tsunami on record. A new analysis links this abrupt event to the retreat of a glacier and, ultimately, to climate change. In the early morning of 10 August 2025, a mountainside…...
These Creepy Mars Gullies Move Like 'Dune Worms' and Scientists Now Finally Know Why
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (545+ words) “It felt like I was watching the sandworms in Dune,” scientists said. On windswept dunes inside Martian craters, such as Matara and Russell, the Red Planet wears a curious pattern that has long fascinated the public and researchers alike: long,…...
Geologists Have Some Good News and Bad News About the Terrifying Fault Zone Sitting Right Underneath Seattle
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (790+ words) Smaller quakes from secondary faults—which are not included in national seismic hazard modeling—occur more frequently than previously thought. In the winter of 923, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the heart of Puget Sound. Shorelines slid into the water, the seafloor…...
New Study Finally Reveals the Mystery of Antarctica's Bleeding Glacier
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (852+ words) A red stain in Antarctica turns out to be a pressure signal, exposing active water movement beneath one of Earth’s coldest glaciers. At first glance, it looks like a crime scene—a deep crimson stain spilled across the blinding white…...
Origin of Human Eyes Traced to 560-Million-Year-Old One-Eyed 'Cyclops"
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (13+ words) Before vertebrates had two eyes, their ancestors may have looked upward with one....
What's the Oldest River In the World? It's So Old It Passed Through Pangea
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (973+ words) It's not easy figuring out the age of a river....
Benbulbin: The Geology Behind Ireland’s Legendary Mountain
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (240+ words) Ireland’s iconic table mountain has a fascinating geological history....
An Iranian Volcano Appears to Have Woken Up 700,000 Years After Its Last Eruption
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (768+ words) Iran’s Taftan volcano shows unsettling signs of pressure building beneath its surface. For centuries, the Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran was considered inactive; just another mountain in the desert. But recent evidence shows that something beneath it has started to…...