geology McAfee SECURE sites help keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams

Geology News
Earth Science Current Events


Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary
January 6, 2012 | PLoSone

The PLoSone online journal has an article about Acamptonectes densus, an ichthyosaur that survived the Jurasic-Cretaceous extinction event and suggests that the event had little impact on ichthyosaurs.


  Related Stories

Dinosaur Decline in the Late Cretaceous
May 2, 2012 | USAToday.com
Researchers have determined that some dinosaur sub-groups were in decline long before the Late Cretaceous...

The Extinction Before the Dinosaurs
March 26, 2013 | National Science Foundation
"More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and...

Oil and Gas from Fractures in the Austin Chalk
December 27, 2012 | United States Geological Survey
"The Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk forms a low-permeability, onshore Gulf of Mexico reservoir that produces...

Ouarkziz Impact Crater
May 9, 2012 | NASA Earth Observatory
"The Ouarkziz Impact Crater is located in northwestern Algeria, close to the border with Morocco....

Ecological Modeling and the Fossil Record
January 10, 2013 | Southern Methodist University
"Carbon dioxide levels in fossil soils from the Late Jurassic confirm that climate, vegetation and...

Vitrinite Reflectance Data for the Wind River Basin
February 19, 2013 | USGS
The United States Geological Survey has published: New Vitrinite Reflectance Data for the Wind...

Mass Extinction Can Be a Slow Event
February 7, 2012 | National Science Foundation
The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of...

Human Adaptation to High Altitude
January 24, 2012 | University of Pennsylvania
Over many generations the Amhara people of the Ethiopian Highlands have adapted to living at...


Every day you can find links to several earth science news topics right here. Bookmark this page and visit often. You can also receive our news for free by RSS feed or in a daily email message.





© 2005-2013 Geology.com. All Rights Reserved.
Images, code and content of this website are property of Geology.com. Use without permission is prohibited. Pages on this site are protected by Copyscape.