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It’s difficult for most people to grasp the immensity of time as it’s viewed by archeologists, much less as it’s viewed by geologist or cosmologists. One way often used by those scientists to model time in terms that others can...
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It has been well proven that the Missoula Floods greatly impacted central Washington and there are many examples of the magnitude of the floods, its reach, and dynamics. However, there is still debate on the number, size and timing and...
Read MoreThis is a reconstruction of the Nepal flood disaster. New satellite imagery and video analysis show the deadly Nepal floods began when part of a glacier near the Chinese border collapsed, triggering a debris flow that raced downstream at up...
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A newly discovered crater suggests a second impact that would have triggered underwater landslides and tsunamis On its own, the dinosaur-killing asteroid had a staggering impact: Wildfires raged across the continents, tsunamis pummeled coastlines and about three-quarters of Earth’s species...
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During the last ice age, humans ventured into two vast and completely unknown continents: North and South America. For nearly a century, researchers thought they knew how this wild journey occurred: The first people to cross the Bering Land Bridge,...
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Moses Coulee, a Washington state wonder, has puzzled geologists for over a century. This massive canyon, carved into solid basalt, stands as a testament to some powerful force. The culprit? The Ice Age Floods, a series of catastrophic deluges that...
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Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. It wiped out an estimated 50% to over 90% of animal species, particularly...
Read MoreView a gallery of diagrams for different volcano types, with glossaries The three major types of volcanoes—cinder cone, composite, and shield—each exhibit unique, lesser-known subterranean and surface features, including lava bombs, lahars, and spatter. Other types of volcanoes include lava...
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Any idea what made this formation? Q – This is in the Utah desert, south of Green River. I keep hearing that it might be clastic dikes? I have sent this pic to the USGS and they are kinda stumped...
Read MoreNew footage exclusively obtained by The New York Times showed the aftermath of the moment a giant glacier broke away from the top of a ridge in the Himalayas, setting off a deadly flood. By New York Times Jiawei Wang,...
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The mantle hotspot now under Yellowstone is thought to have been the source of the voluminous Columbia River Basalts that erupted from 17 to 6 million years ago as the North American continent passed over the hotspot, and that now...
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Analysis of how long erratics have been exposed on ice-free ground in the hypothesized “Late Pleistocene ice-free corridor migration route” suggests that route was not fully open until about 13,800 years ago, and the ice sheets “may have been 1,500...
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