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The East Africa Rift System: Learn about the East Africa Rift.

Geologic Time Scale: Printable time scale in MS Word format for teacher or student use.

How Old Are The Andes Mountains? New research suggests that growth of the Andes began earlier than 7 MYA.

The Tunguska Blast: 100 years ago a meteoroid exploded above the surface of Siberia.

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid: The impact is believed to have caused a bigger splash and released more water vapor than previously thought.

If it is not grown, it is mined.

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Banded Iron Formations: A new model is proposed for the origin of BIFs.

Tectonic History In Jade: Dates of metamorphism and fault motion locked in jade.

Do Nanodiamonds and Soot Explain a Clovis Extinction? Overhunting or a comet impact?

What Are Stromatolites? Learn how they form. Will they be found in the rocks of Mars?

How Old is the Amazon River? Age estimated by sampling sediments.

Oil is found first in the mind.

More Historical Geo.

The World's Richest and Most Extensive Marine Bone Deposit: How did this amazing bed form?.

Pangaea Maps: A sequence of maps shows how a large supercontinent fragmented into several pieces.

Asteroid Impact Craters: Zoom in on 50 of Earth's largest impact craters Maps.

Charles Lyell's Elements of Geology: A classic text written in 1871. The entire book republished here.

The Most Powerful Volcanic Eruption of the 20th Century! Novarupta's 1912 eruption was a case of mistaken identity.

The present is the key to the past.

Historical Geology

Primate Brain and Body Size Evolution: As man evolved, his brain size increased. However,...

New View on Jurassic Primate Evolution: Michael Heads, Ph.D., of the Buffalo Museum of...

Hidden Gamburstev Mountains of Antarctica: The Gamburstev Mountains in Antarctica existed for millions...

Australian Megafauna Extinction Debate: There has been a long-standing debate on what...

Stalagmite Shows Ice Age Climate: Ice Age climate data has been preserved in...

Where Are Madagascar's Mammals From?: Madagascar separated from the African mainland about 120...

Podcast: Earth's Climate 3,000,000 Years Ago: Scientists have reconstructed what the climate conditions were...

Toxic Coal in Xuan Wei, China: The people of Xuan Wei, China, have a...

Role of Bering Strait in Arctic Climate: Sea level rise and fall has opened and...

Gulf of Corinth Rift, Greece: The Gulf of Corinth rift which runs through...

Geology underlies it all.