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Study Confirms North Sea’s Silverpit Crater Was Made by an Asteroid, Triggering Ancient Mega-Tsunami

Shocked quartz with feldspar in borehole samples, alongside new seismic imaging, provide decisive proof that resolves the structure’s long‑contested origin.

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Japan Recovers Rare-Earth-Bearing Seabed Mud at 6,000 Meters in First-of-Its-Kind Test

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Japan Validates Multi-Day Deep-Sea Rare Earths Lift off Minami-Torishima

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3mo ago

New Study Points to Human Transport of Stonehenge’s Bluestones, Not Glaciers

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3mo ago

New Mineral Evidence Rules Out Glacial Delivery of Stonehenge Stones

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3mo ago

‘Star of Pure Land’ Purple Star Sapphire Unveiled in Sri Lanka After GIA Certification

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3mo ago

New 'Cosmic Clock' Reads Krypton in Zircon to Date Ancient Landscapes

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4mo ago

Ancient Salt Yields First Direct Mesoproterozoic CO2, Indicating a Mild 1.4-Billion-Year Climate

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4mo ago

Rains Turn Iran’s Hormuz ‘Red Beach’ Coastline Crimson in Striking Natural Event

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4mo ago

Scientists Detect Granite Batholith Heating the Moon’s Compton–Belkovich Region

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4mo ago

The Metals Company’s Stock Soars More Than 800% in a Year on Deep-Sea Mining Hopes

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5mo ago

Telangana Inaugurates Dr Manmohan Singh Earth Sciences University in Kothagudem

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5mo ago

Chang'e-6 Samples Confirm Hematite and Maghemite on the Moon

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6mo ago

Scientists Identify Ice XXI, a Metastable High-Density Phase of Water

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7mo ago

Ferric Hydroxysulfate Identified on Mars, Hinting at Amazonian Geothermal and Volcanic Activity

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7mo ago

Earliest European Blue Pigment Confirmed on 13,000-Year-Old German Artifact

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7mo ago

Oklahoma Family Finds 2.79-Carat Brown Diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds

Mineralogy

Study Confirms North Sea’s Silverpit Crater Was Made by an Asteroid, Triggering Ancient Mega-Tsunami

Bromacker Fossil Site Redated to 294.1 Million Years Old

Young Mars Volcanoes Show Long-Lived, Evolving Magma Systems

New Experiments Suggest Earth’s Core Holds Nine to 45 Oceans’ Worth of Hydrogen

Japan Recovers Rare-Earth-Bearing Seabed Mud at 6,000 Meters in First-of-Its-Kind Test

Japan Validates Multi-Day Deep-Sea Rare Earths Lift off Minami-Torishima

New Study Points to Human Transport of Stonehenge’s Bluestones, Not Glaciers

New Mineral Evidence Rules Out Glacial Delivery of Stonehenge Stones

‘Star of Pure Land’ Purple Star Sapphire Unveiled in Sri Lanka After GIA Certification

New 'Cosmic Clock' Reads Krypton in Zircon to Date Ancient Landscapes

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Ancient Salt Yields First Direct Mesoproterozoic CO2, Indicating a Mild 1.4-Billion-Year Climate

Rains Turn Iran’s Hormuz ‘Red Beach’ Coastline Crimson in Striking Natural Event

Scientists Detect Granite Batholith Heating the Moon’s Compton–Belkovich Region

The Metals Company’s Stock Soars More Than 800% in a Year on Deep-Sea Mining Hopes

Telangana Inaugurates Dr Manmohan Singh Earth Sciences University in Kothagudem

Chang'e-6 Samples Confirm Hematite and Maghemite on the Moon

Scientists Identify Ice XXI, a Metastable High-Density Phase of Water

Ferric Hydroxysulfate Identified on Mars, Hinting at Amazonian Geothermal and Volcanic Activity

Earliest European Blue Pigment Confirmed on 13,000-Year-Old German Artifact

Oklahoma Family Finds 2.79-Carat Brown Diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds

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