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Core samples for Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a. Credit: Elisabetta Erba.

Volcanism drove rapid ocean deoxygenation during the time of the dinosaurs

Continental volcanic arcs such as this one in Kamchatka, Russia, are rapidly weathered, driving CO2 removal from the atmosphere over geological time. Credit: Tom Gernon, University of Southampton

Volcanoes acted as a safety valve for Earth’s long-term climate

A map of the World Ocean Floor. Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division

Geologists take Earth’s inner temperature using erupted sea glass

A wide-angle aerial view looks southeast over Kīlauea’s summit caldera on July 22, 2021. Large cliffs formed during the 2018 collapses are visible on the left side of the photo. A recently active lava lake is visible in the lower right. (Image credit: M. Patrick, USGS)

Giant friction experiment at Kilauea volcano

The cliffs of the volcanic island of Santorini showing the layers of deposits from past volcanic eruptions. Credit: co-author Dr. Ralf Gertisser (Keele University).

Sea levels influence eruptions on volcanic island

A view of Kīlauea’s summit lava lake. The lava lake is contained within a crater, which is set within the larger Halema‘uma‘u Crater. New research aims to understand the activity that led to the eruption in 2018 in Kīlauea’s lower East Rift Zone. Credit: USGS

Volcanic tremor and deformation at Kīlauea

Skull fossils of amphibian. Credit: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets...

Two fossils of Brooksella alternata.

Icy waters of ‘Snowball Earth’ may have spurred early organisms to...

Tree stomp in lignite deposits. Credit: Vittoria Lauretano

Decline in CO2 cooled Earth’s climate more than 30 million years...

Fossilised Squalicorax tooth Nr. #07815 from the Jerusalem site. Credit: Omri Lernau

The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery

Chuandianella ovata, an extinct shrimp-like crustacean.

Paleonursery offers rare, detailed glimpse at life 518 million years ago

Nierra Negra Volcano on the Galapagos Islands

New model for shield volcano eruption

A "Plume" in the Earth's mantle, i.e. a surge of hot material, caused the Indian Plate to spin off. (Graphic: Alisha Steinberger)

Supervolcano fed from Earth’s mantle caused crustal plates to rotate

Ordovician black shales of the Mount Hare Formation, Road River Group (approximately 465 million years old) rise above conglomerates of the Aberdeen Member. The dangerous rapids of Aberdeen Canyon (Nan Zhak Nadhàdlaii), created by the Peel River cutting through the resistant conglomerates, appear at bottom left. (Image credit: Erik Sperling)

Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness

Upper molar of Altaynycteris aurora. Credit: Li Qiang

Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia

Boriana Kalderon-Asael conducts field work at a Middle-Upper Ordovician outcrop near Reedsville, Penn. Credit: Ashleigh Hood

Earth’s climate life story, 3 billion years in the making

The Alum Shale, here an example of a coastal deposit, consists of quartz and potassium Feldspar clasts as well as conspicuous Pyrite crystals (here: white) embedded in a clayey matrix. Scanning electron micrograph (scale: lower image edge length corresponds to approx. 40 μm). Credit: Schulz, GFZ

A rock with many perspectives

Gold in pyrite

‘Fool’s gold’ not so foolish after all

The asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars is the main source of extraterrestrial material that lands on Earth. (Illustration: ESA/ATG Medialab)

Earth’s meteorite impacts over past 500 million years tracked

Uskiella spargen a small plant whose axes divide several times before bearing oval sporangia. Credit : Cyrille Prestianni

Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent!

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