Category Archives: geology

Earthquakes within plates: we don’t know when, and we may not know where

For intracontinental earthquakes, the seismic past and present may not help when predicting future hazards
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology

LCROSS: the aftermath

At least one camera was looking at the impact site in the right wavelength…
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Categories: geology, planets

LCROSS impacts today!

Scientists get to play interplanetary bumper cars to search for lunar water.
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Categories: geology, planets

Two large earthquakes, two unusual focal mechanisms

A quick look at the causes of this weeks’ big earthquakes in Samoa and Indonesia
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology

Lots of oxygen on the Archean Earth?

New evidence for the early evolution of photosynthesis: was the early Earth really as oxygen-free as we think it was?
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Categories: Archean, geochemistry, geology, paper reviews, past worlds, rocks & minerals