Geology in the News

Amazing Rocks and History of the Earth stories

Kurt C. Friehauf

 

Amazing rocks and the History of the Earth

·       New Supercontinent Dubbed Columbia Once Ruled Earth – March 18, 2002

·       Inner Earth May Hold More Water Than the Seas – March 7, 2002

·       Asteroids Rained Down During Final Formation Of Earth – March 4, 2002

·       Planetary Crunch In 20 Million Years – March 4, 2002

·       Earth Resurfaced 3.9 Billion Years Ago By Asteroids – March 1, 2002

·       Climate Change Following Collapse Of The Maya Empire – January 25, 2002

·       Did Continents Emerge Suddenly A Billion Years Ago? – February 12, 2002

·       When The Earth Dried Out – February 20, 2002

·       Faults Suggest a High Calling for Delphi Priestesses – February 4, 2002

·       Namibia’s deadly big burp

·       Rotten-Egg Gas Suffocating Fish Off African Coast – January 31, 2002

·       Drilling To Begin On Crater Linked To Mass Extinction – January 17, 2002

·       Nuclear dumping leak sparks concern – January 17, 2002

·       Munching Microbes Aid Environment, Oil Industry – January 15, 2002

·       Munching Microbes Aid Environment, Oil Industry (original source)– January 15, 2002

·       Earth Atmosphere Rich In Oxygen 3 Billion Years Ago? – January 15, 2002

·       Arctic sea floor gives up secrets – January 14, 2002

·       Researchers Investigate Mysteries Of The African Rift – December 17, 2001

·       Chemicals At Earth's Core Surprisingly Complicated – January 11, 2002

·       Primordial Air May Have Been "Breathable" – January 9, 2002

·       Primordial Air May Have Been "Breathable" (original source) – January 9, 2002

·       From Cornstarch To The Giant's Causeway – December 21, 2001

·       Adsorption On Clay Accounts For Organic-Rich Rocks – January 13, 2002

·       A Rising Force: New Study On Ancient Mantle Plumes – January 12, 2002

·       Mud Batteries: Power Cells of the Future? – January 22, 2002

·       Microbes Turn Underwater Gunk Into Electric Energy – January 18, 2002

·       Dead Sea keeps falling – January 22, 2002

·       Dead Sea 'to disappear by 2050' – August 3, 2001

·       Did Planetary "Belch" Cause Prehistoric Warming? – December 18, 2001

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·       Just How Old Is The Tibetan Plateau? - August 13, 2001 (Brad Hacker story)

·       Did Aussie Scientists Witness Birth Of A Gold Mine? – July 9, 2001

·       Cave reveals spectacular secrets – July 4, 2001

·       Ancient Oceans Experienced A Global Surge In Biological Productivity - June 4, 2001

·       Tectonic Plates Moved Earlier Than Previously Thought - June 14, 2001

·       Great Barrier Reef not so old - May 24, 2001

·       Early replica - The theory that early life was once dominated by a self-replicating molecule gets a big boost - May 21, 2001

·       Trade growing in stolen meteorites – May 11, 2001

·       Two Billion Year Old Carbon Signature Of Wyoming Rocks Helps To Reveal Shape Of Ancient Ocean In Middle America – May 3, 2001

·       Minerals May Explain Life's Handedness - May 1, 2001

·       Asteroids 'affected human evolution' – April 12, 2001

·       Oily Fossils Provide Clues To The Evolution Of Flowers - April 5, 2001

·       Listen To Earth's "Songs," Tweeks And Whistles Live On The Web - March 21, 2001

·       Listen to Earth's 'songs,' tweeks and whistles live on the Web from NASA Marshall Center - March 21, 2001 (original release)

·       Physicists Hope To Strike Scientific Gold In The Black Hills Of South Dakota - March 9, 2001 - a new use for an old mine

·       Ancient Earth Had Magnetic Field Three Times Stronger Than Once Thought - March 6, 2001

·       Rocks reveal amazing dino lights - March 2, 2001 – about how the Earth’s magnetic field during the time of the dinosaurs would have affected the Northern Lights 

·       New Analysis Of Meteorite Shows Key Ingredients For Life On Earth May Have Been Delivered By Comets – February 27, 2001

·       New Analysis Of Meteorite Shows Key Ingredients For Life On Earth May Have Been Delivered By Comets – February 27, 2001 (original Scripps release)

·       Earlier Water On Earth? Oldest Rock Suggests Hospitable Young Planet January 15, 2001

·       Liquid Water At Earth's Surface 4.3 Billion Years Ago, Scientists Discover January 11, 2001

·       Ancient crystal questions Earth's history January 11, 2001

·       Asteroid killed 90 percent of life on earth millions of years ago - February 22, 2001

·       Report: Asteroid storm pounded Earth, moon as life formed - December 7, 2000

·       The history of rock November 3, 2000 - Antarctic studies

·       World's deepest rocks recovered May 19, 2000

·       Earth's ancient atmosphere trapped in rocks July 13, 2000

·       Earth's Continental Land Masses Created In Short, Fast Bursts; Findings Challenge Multi-Million Year Continental Crust Theory - December 8, 2000

·       Earth's Continental Land Masses Created In Short, Fast Bursts, Scientists Say - December 8, 2000

·       Finding By Syracuse University And University Of Michigan Researchers Reveals Secret To Mass Extinction Events - October 20, 2000

·       New Evidence Indicates Huge Vegetation Loss Accompanied Mass Extinction - September 14, 2000

·       Oldest rocks contain oxygen clues  August 3, 2000

·       Glass holds grains of truth about Earth's meteor history - April 3, 2000

·       Meteoroid Bombardment Of Moon Has Intensified In Past 500 Million Years, Coinciding With Blossoming Of Life On Earth - March 29

·       New Calculations Show Life's Origins Possible In Volcanic Gases - March 28, 2000

·       Rare meteorite promises glimpse into dawn of creation - March 17, 2000

·       Leaking Earth could run dry September 8, 1999

·       Once upon a time 3.5 billion years ago - fossil biomarkers August 13, 1999

·       The bacteria that changed the Earthorigin of the modern atmosphere August 5, 1999

·       Deep-sea probe hunts new life-forms July 28, 1999

·       Ocean vents were "factories of life" February 9, 1999

·       Tiny mineral test-tubes: the cradle of life? December 21, 1998

·       Clues to life's origins - sea floor vents September 23, 1998

·       Springing to life under the sea - sea floor vents  September 9, 1998

·       Living inside a volcano - analysed in space September 21, 1998

·       Youngest land seen at sea May 22, 1998