New island born in Red Sea after volcanic activity
A new island is forming in the Red Sea in the Zubair archipelago resulting from a volcanic activity
News Section | Geology
Huge `basin-forming` impact from asteroid behind Mercury’s wobbly orbit
Scientists believe that Mercury’s wobbly orbit could have been caused by an asteroid impact so huge that it left a basin in the planet’s surface
New images of Pacific Ocean capture destruction of underwater mountains
New images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean have revealed the destruction of massive underwater mountains as one of Earth’s most violent processes
Dead sea died 120,000 years ago
Sediments found after drilling into the core of the Dead Sea have revealed that the lake almost disappeared 120,000 years ago
Early Earth may have been more vulnerable to catastrophic glaciation
Early earth may have been more vulnerable to catastrophic deep freezes than previously thought, a new study has revealed
Antarctic ice sheet formed by fall in carbon dioxide levels
Studies of molecules from ancient algae found in deep-sea core samples suggest that the Antarctic ice sheet was formed due to a drop in carbon dioxide levels
Earth did not always have oxygen since inception
An international team of researchers has found that the appearance of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event
Earth flips its polarity after every 200,000 to 300,000 years
Magnetic pole reversal is a common phenomenon, which occurs on Earth, gradually over the millennia
Oldest minerals help make key discovery about early Earth’s atmosphere
In a new study funded by NASA, scientists have used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after its birth
Earth’s outer core ‘poor in oxygen’
Oxygen is the most abundant element in the planet, so it is not unreasonable to expect that it might be one of the dominant “light elements” in the core