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- A simple two-state model interprets temporal modulations in eruptive activity and enhances multivolcano hazard quantification
- Tonga eruption’s towering plume was the tallest in recorded history
- Volcanic trigger of ocean deoxygenation during Cordilleran ice sheet retreat
- Violent supershear earthquakes are more common than previously thought
- Two Scottish sites on world geology list
- Involcan calculates there is 400 cubic kilometres of magma under La Palma
- 500 Million Year-Old Fossils Solve a Centuries-Old Riddle in the Evolution of Life on Earth
Planet in Distress
- Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another
- Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’
- Crisis Point as Earth reaches 8 Billion People
Something Slightly Positive?
- Brazil, Indonesia and DRC in talks to form ‘Opec of rainforests’
The Earth
- Why is Mauna Loa erupting now and for how long?
- Mauna Loa – Northeast Rift Zone Fissure 3 Eruption Live View
- Volcano cam: Watch mesmerizing live views of Mauna Loa’s lava fountain erupting
- Chile On Alert As Active Villarrica Volcano Rumbles
- What are Earth’s plate tectonics | Everything about plate tectonics
Palaeontology
- Prehistoric ‘wonderfully weird beast’ Whatcheeria grew big quickly
- A Guide to Fossil Formations – Max’s Blogo-Saurus
- 100 million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton discovery ‘could hold the key’ to prehistoric research
- New Small-Bodied Ankylosaur Species Unearthed in Argentina
- Paleontologist accused of faking data in dino-killing asteroid paper
- Recently found ‘Neanderthal footprints’ in the South of Spain could be 275,000 years old
- Queensland graziers unearth 100m-year-old plesiosaur remains likened to Rosetta Stone
- Problematic tubular fossils from the Portfjeld Formation (Ediacaran) of North Greenland
- Manospondylus: Sparing a thought for some fossil plants or how I came to love Araucaria
Planets
- Gamma-rays may have helped meteorites seed Earth with the building blocks of life
- Viking 1 may have landed at site of ancient Martian megatsunami
- Mars might still be volcanically active, quakes there suggest
- 15-ton meteorite has never-seen-before minerals; may provide clues to asteroid formation
Us
- Humanity has become ‘weapon of mass extinction’, UN head tells Cop15 launch
- South African Lagerstätte reveals middle Permian Gondwanan lakeshore ecosystem in exquisite detail
- Explore ‘the most spectacular landscape on the continent’: Romania’s answer to El Camino de Santiago
- La Brea Tar Pits on list of first geological heritage sites
- Study offers new, sharper proof of early plate tectonics, flipping of geomagnetic poles.
- Hawaii’s Big Island warned to be ready as huge volcano rumbles
- Yosemite Mountains could be younger than thought
- Rapid magma ascent beneath La Palma revealed by seismic tomography
- An exceptional fossil lizard from the Jurassic period
- 100 leading geo sites
- Sterane and hopane biomarkers capture microbial transformations of complex hydrocarbons in young hydrothermal Guaymas Basin sediments
- Yale study sheds light on Earth’s deadliest extinction event
- Paleomagnetic techniques can date speleothems with high concentrations of detrital material
October 26th 2022 links
- Researchers discover previously unknown mineralogy of the deep Earth
- Post-Miocene tectonics of the Northern Calcareous Alps
- Research reveals magma activity beneath Mount Edgecumbe
- From Iceland — Earthquakes In Mýrdalsjökull Start Discussions About Possible Eruption Of Katla
- Nishinoshima Clears Its Throat
- A rapid change in magma plumbing taps porphyry copper deposit-forming magmas
- 500,000-Year-Old Tools In Polish Cave May Have Belonged To Extinct Hominid Species
- Lithosphere | GeoScienceWorld
BBC News – Scottish sites on list of world’s top 100 geology
More information on Siccar point – one of the 100

A Storyville documentary in which film-maker Werner Herzog pays homage to French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who were killed in a pyroclastic flow in Japan in 1991.
BBC iPlayer
October 17th 2022 links
- How tiny fossils could minimize or supersize the next big earthquake
- Catastrophically Fast: Basaltic Magma Chambers Grow Far Faster Than Expected
- Lost Continent Named Balkanatolia Discovered After 40 Million Years
- ESA – Italy’s Stromboli erupts and Pyroclastic Flow Cascades Down Stromboli Volcano
- Enormous waves of lava can help predict volcanic flows
- Enormous ancient lava was seen from space like a dark scar
- Scientists say all land on Earth is coming together slowly to form a new supercontinent
- Greenland’s future may be written under North Sea
- The Chicxulub Impact Produced a Powerful Global Tsunami
- Living Alongside Volcanoes: photo book excerpt
- California Quakes Mysteriously Preceded by Shifts in Earth’s Magnetic Field
- Evidence of a Secret Structure Within Earth’s Core Discovered
- Scientists Find Evidence of “Ocean” Hundreds of Miles Below Earth’s Surface
- Study shows tectonics to be main driver of hillslope ‘connectivity
- Billion-Year Rewind Tracks Supercontinents and Mantle Structures