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Prehistoric Rock In Japan Reveals Clues To A Major Ocean Anoxic Event

Atmospheres & Climate

Prehistoric Rock In Japan Reveals Clues To A Major Ocean Anoxic Event

Marine Mineral Formations in the Arctic Ocean Challenge Existing Geologic Theories

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Marine Mineral Formations in the Arctic Ocean Challenge Existing Geologic Theories

Assessing the Detectability of Europa’s Seafloor Topography from Europa Clipper’s Gravity Data

Europa

Assessing the Detectability of Europa’s Seafloor Topography from Europa Clipper’s Gravity Data

Geodynamics Of Super-Earth GJ 486b

Exoplanetology: Exoplanets & Exomoons

Geodynamics Of Super-Earth GJ 486b

Geoscientists Dig Into Why We May Be Alone In The Milky Way (Tectonics)

SETI & Technosignatures

Geoscientists Dig Into Why We May Be Alone In The Milky Way (Tectonics)

Newly Discovered Hydrothermal Vents At Depths Of 3,000 Meters Off Svalbard

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

Newly Discovered Hydrothermal Vents At Depths Of 3,000 Meters Off Svalbard

Mountain Building In Antarctica Linked To A Major Extinction Event 500 Million Years Ago

Extinction events

Mountain Building In Antarctica Linked To A Major Extinction Event 500 Million Years Ago

Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s Magellan Data

Venus

Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s Magellan Data

Expedition To The Atacama Trench: Thinking Ahead To Enceladus and Europa

Away Teams & Field Reports

Expedition To The Atacama Trench: Thinking Ahead To Enceladus and Europa

A Giant Impact Origin For The First Subduction on Earth

Impact events

A Giant Impact Origin For The First Subduction on Earth

Evidence And Concerns About A Latent, Embryonic Phase Tectonic Evolution And The Existence Of The Young Subsurface Ocean On Mimas

Mimas

Evidence And Concerns About A Latent, Embryonic Phase Tectonic Evolution And The Existence Of The Young Subsurface Ocean On Mimas

What Turned Earth Into A Giant Snowball 700 Million Years Ago?

Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology

What Turned Earth Into A Giant Snowball 700 Million Years Ago?

Source Rocks Of Earth’s First Real Continents Have Been Uncovered

Astrogeology

Source Rocks Of Earth’s First Real Continents Have Been Uncovered

Recent Volcanism On Mars Reveals A Planet More Active Than Previously Thought

Mars

Recent Volcanism On Mars Reveals A Planet More Active Than Previously Thought

Can One Hear Supercontinents In The Tides Of Ocean Planets?

Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Can One Hear Supercontinents In The Tides Of Ocean Planets?

Initiation of Plate Tectonics on Exoplanets with Significant Tidal Stress

Astrogeology

Initiation of Plate Tectonics on Exoplanets with Significant Tidal Stress

Stellar Chemical Clues As To The Rarity of Exoplanetary Tectonics

Astrogeology

Stellar Chemical Clues As To The Rarity of Exoplanetary Tectonics

Planetary Sweet Spot: Plate Tectonics Depend on Elemental Abundances

Astrogeology

Planetary Sweet Spot: Plate Tectonics Depend on Elemental Abundances