Banded iron formations: Oceans, algae and iron oxide
Iron ore is a big deal in Australia.
Iron ore is a big deal in Australia.
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2024
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Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones—where tectonic plates collide—could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones behave during the years between major earthquakes, according to a research ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2024
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Scientists from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science recently named a newly discovered species of a plant-eating dinosaur, suggesting the animal once used to roam eastern North America more than 96 million years ago.
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 6, 2023
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A trio of paleontologists, two with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the third with Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR, has found the fossilized remains of two large lamprey species from the Jurassic in northeast ...
Historians and archaeologists have, over centuries, explored the mysteries behind the Great Sphinx of Giza: What did it originally look like? What was it designed to represent? What was its original name? But less attention ...
Archaeology
Oct 31, 2023
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A small international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of proterosuchid in India dating back 250 million years ago. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes ...
An international team of archaeologists has discovered life-size images of an extinct camel species carved into rock formations in Saudia Arabia. In their project, reported in the journal Archaeological Research in Asia, ...
Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan coastal town of Toukrah in the early hours of September 10 and started moving east. Soon the wind was rising and heavy rain falling, forcing people to stay indoors. By afternoon the rain ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2023
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An international research team has discovered that a subduction zone's age affects the ability for it to recycle water between the Earth's surface and its inner layers.
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2023
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Visually striking layers of burnt orange, yellow, silver, brown and blue-tinged black are characteristic of banded iron formations, sedimentary rocks that may have prompted some of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth's ...
Earth Sciences
May 25, 2023
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