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Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.
Massive oil and gas reserves identified across southwest Wyoming are being called out this week by federal officials as ...
Scientists discover gigantic hydrogen reserves dating back a million years beneath mountain ranges, boosting clean and ...
The national park’s features confirm plate tectonic theory, making it one of the best places to see the planet’s geological ...
A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...
Long before the Great Lakes, a rift nearly tore North America in half—leaving behind Lake Superior’s depth, copper-rich ridges, and stories still told today.
More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now ...
Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...
Some areas in the Permian have hit geological limits while others ... the Eagle Ford, and the Bakken oil wells has surged over the past decade, the EIA says. In the Permian, the gas-to-oil ...
"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...
The interactive map by the U.S. Geological Survey flagged several zones across the country that have a higher potential for hydrogen deep under the Earth’s surface. Most are in the Midwest area.