In addition to being the last horizon for adventurers and spiritual seekers, the Himalaya region is a prime location for understanding geological processes. It hosts
Category: Geology
Dust allowed humans to leave Africa and discover agriculture
Boulder, Colo., USA: When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region
Deep low-frequency earthquakes indicate migration of magmatic fluids beneath Laacher See
Magma could rise from the upper mantle into the middle and upper crust beneath the Laacher See Volcano (Rhineland-Palatinate). This is the result of a
Is Tehran’s ground sinking critically?
Iran has a water problem. The reserves in many groundwater basins there have been severely depleted. For the last forty years, the country has invested
Study finds deep subterranean connection between two Japan volcanoes
MIAMI–Scientists have confirmed for the first time that radical changes of one volcano in southern Japan was the direct result of an erupting volcano 22
Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?
Boulder, Colo., USA: Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the
Shakedown in Oklahoma: To cut the number of bigger earthquakes, inject less saltwater
Boulder, Colo., USA: In Oklahoma, reducing the amount of saltwater (highly brackish water produced during oil and gas recovery) pumped into the ground seems to
UGR researchers put a geophysical database of Antarctica at the disposal of the scientific community
An international group of scientists, led by Professor of Earth Physics Jesús M. Ibáñez Godoy from the University of Granada (UGR), has made available to
Lost continent of Zealandia: Scientists return from expedition to sunken land
After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has
From where will the next big earthquake hit the city of Istanbul?
The city of Istanbul is focus of great concern for earthquake researchers. This 15-million metropole is situated very close to the so-called North Anatolian Fault