Scariest bridges in the world
DON’T LOOK DOWN! THESE ARE THE WORLD’S SCARIEST BRIDGES Fair warning: If you have any fear of heights, you might have a difficult time making […]
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Brazilian geologists may have found Brazilian ‘Atlantis’
Brazilian geologists announced the discovery, 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) from Rio, of what could be part of the continent that was submerged when the Atlantic […]
How Strike-Slip Faults Form, the Origin of Earthquakes
Structural geologist Michele Cooke calls it the “million-dollar question” that underlies all work in her laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: what goes on […]
What tectonic plates float on
Dynamite shakes the truth from the Earth’s underbelly. Any geologist will tell you the Earth’s crust is broken into tectonic plates that “float” around like […]
What will COVID-19 look like to geologists in the far future?
COVID-19 is a major global shock that has turned our lives upside down, but how does it measure up on the grand billion-year scale of […]
For documents longest earthquake record geologists use radioactive clock
Using radioactive elements trapped in crystallized, cream-colored “veins” in New Mexican rock, geologists have peered back in time more than 400,000 years to illuminate a […]