IntroductionAs a boy growing up in Rochester, England, Chris German knew of his family’s strong maritime tradition, and he had no intention of continuing...

Researchers have measured the speed of sound in pure iron under pressures similar to those...

The Anthropocene is one of those rare scientific terms that has entered the public consciousness, which is ironic, given that geologists...

According to a new study by Curtin University, Earth’s next supercontinent: Amasia, will form when the Pacific Ocean closes in 200 to 300 million...

Accurate spatial models of tectonic plates and geological terranes are essential for analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of geoscientific data and developing compositional...

The nature of tectonic-magmatic processes during early Earth history remains one of the important questions in Precambrian geology. While some hypotheses suggest that plate...

New modelling predicts the composition, structure and atmosphere of hypothetical nearby worlds

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Réunion, a French island in the western Indian Ocean, is like a marshmallow hovering above the business end of a blowtorch. It sits...

Earth is unique in plenty of ways. But Lucía Pérez-Díaz, a geologist at the University of Oxford, reckons that one of its most...

Our planet’s history is written in its rocks. You can traverse eons by brushing your fingers over the layers of a cliff wall....

Modern life can feel dizzying, like everything is motion and change. But there are some constants we set our lives against: the relative...