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geology

The Super Pit is Australia???s largest open pit gold mine, producing around 850,000 ounces of the precious metal annually.

Earth

Geology needs to reinvent itself as we fight against climate change

It is time for geology to embrace our sustainable future and, in turn, be accorded the respect it deserves as a discipline crucial to understanding the world and our relationship to it

Leader

Christopher Jackson interview: How geologists can fight climate change

Environment

Christopher Jackson interview: How geologists can fight climate change

Features

Crawford Lake, one of the few meromictic lakes around the world, highlight of the Crawford Lake Conservation Area, south of Milton, Ontario Canada; Shutterstock ID 145107226; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Earth

Geologists to pinpoint official birthplace of the Anthropocene in 2022

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The Allan Hills 84001 meteorite courtesy of NASA/JSC/Stanford University.

Space

Organic compounds on Mars were produced by water and rocks, not life

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The moon

Space

The moon's magnetic field may have been altered by huge sinking rocks

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PAHOA, HI - MAY 4: In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, a column of robust, reddish-brown ash plume occurred after a magnitude 6.9 South Flank following the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on May 4, 2018 in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, Hawaii. The governor of Hawaii has declared a local state of emergency near the Mount Kilauea volcano after it erupted following a 5.0-magnitude earthquake, forcing the evacuation of nearly 1,700 residents. (Photo by U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images)

Earth

Plumes of rock that feed volcanic hotspots are surprisingly cold

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NASA image of Troctolite 76535. NASA/Johnson Space Center photograph S73-19456. - [1] Troctolite sample 76535 brought back from the Moon by Apollo 17. This sample has a mass of 156 grams and is up to 5 centimeters across. It was collected as part of a rake sample at station 6 at the foot of the North Massif. Another view of this sample was used in Figure 7-16 of the Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report (SP-330, 1973), which has the following caption: Coarse-grained norite (sample 76535) with fresh-appearing plagioclase (white to light gray) that has typical striations of albite twinning. Although pyroxenes (medium gray) are fractured along cleavage planes, they do not appear badly crushed.

Space

Apollo 17 rock sample hints the moon cooled faster than we thought

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A68X7W Ol Doinyo Lengai lava flowing from a cone, aerial view of the crater floor, Tanzania

Earth

Black lava from this bizarre volcano could reveal Earth's deep secrets

Features

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Earth

New mineral davemaoite discovered inside a diamond from Earth's mantle

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Dark lines on lighter rocks, animal burrows in ancient quartzitic rock

Life

Mystery of ancient burrows older than earliest animals has been solved

Ancient animal burrows in rocks once thought to be 1.2 billion years old have been re-examined, and were likely made 40 to 50 million years ago by crustaceans

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Environment

La Palma volcano eruption: Warning signs may have been there for years

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Space

The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field

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Earth

Iceland may be part of a submerged continent called Icelandia

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Space

Venus has huge land masses that jostle about like Earth's continents

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