Geologists

Geologists Have Closely Analyzed Two Bizarre ‘Blobs’ Detected Deep Inside Earth

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Earth’s interior is not a uniform stack of layers. Deep in its thick middle layer lie two colossal blobs of thermo-chemical material. To this day, scientists still don’t know where both of these colossal structures came from or why they have such different heights, but a new set of geodynamic models has landed on a possible answer … Read more

Christopher Jackson interview: How geologists can fight climate change

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By Abigail Beall Jennie Edwards FROM the breathtaking Atlas mountains in Morocco to the expansive deserts of the US, Christopher Jackson’s work has taken him to some incredible places. Incredible and sometimes risky, too: he has been held at gunpoint and put in prison in the line of duty. Why does he do it? Just … Read more

Anthropocene: Geologists will choose birthplace of a new epoch this year

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Whether we are in a new geological epoch is still up for debate, but geologists have almost decided where on Earth should be the official birthplace of the Anthropocene Earth 25 January 2022 By Adam Vaughan Crawford Lake in Ontario, one of the candidate sites to mark the dawn of the Anthropocene wildnerdpix / Alamy … Read more