Hundreds of millions of years ago, a massive earthquake rattled the earth, sending towering waves crashing across an ancient tropical sea that covered part of present-day Canada and the United States. This startling conclusion comes from new research by two University of Saskatchewan scientists, who uncovered startling evidence of ancient tsunamis wreaking havoc in this […]
Geology
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Mesopotamian Bricks Reveal Data on a Mysterious Anomaly in the Earth’s Magnetic Field 3,000 Years Ago
Scientists have discovered new information about a mystery in Earth’s magnetic field from 3,000 years ago. They found this by studying old bricks from ancient Mesopotamia, which is now part of Iraq. The bricks were made long ago and have the names of kings from that time written on them. This lets archaeologists know when […]
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The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an advanced civilization in the geological record?
If an industrialized civilization had existed on Earth millions of years before our era, what traces would it have left, and could they be detectable today? That is the astounding premise that led Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, and Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute, to write an article in […]
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The “Dolomite Problem”: Resolving a Geological Mystery of 200 Years
For the past two centuries, scientists have struggled to replicate a common mineral in the laboratory under conditions believed to mimic its natural formation. However, a breakthrough has been achieved by a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. This success unravels an age-old geological mystery known as […]
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Newly Discovered Fossils Help Reveal Map of Ancient Supercontinent
Scientists have uncovered 10 species of ancient sea creatures called trilobites that were hidden for 490 million years in an underexplored area of Thailand. These fossils may provide missing pieces to the puzzle of what the world looked like long ago. Trilobites are extinct marine animals that had crescent-shaped heads and breathed through their legs. […]
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The largest cave in the world is so high that it could house 40-story skyscrapers
In the year 1991, a man named Hồ Khanh discovered a cavity in the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng park on the coast of Vietnam, about 500 kilometers south of the capital Hanoi. As he later recounted, he felt a gust of wind and heard the running of a river inside. The whole park contains numerous caves […]
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The mysterious seismic pulse that repeats every 26 seconds, coming from the Gulf of Guinea
Seismic detectors around the world have been capturing a curious and strange phenomenon for decades. Every 26 seconds the earth emits a pulse, a small microseism barely perceptible, that nobody knows why it happens or what causes it. Until recently, no one knew where it came from either. The first to document the phenomenon was […]
