Dating Methods Major Rethink of Magma Dogma September 26, 2022 How fast does it take to fill a big magma chamber? Millions of years? No. Just a few months, actually. CONTINUE READING
Geology One-Eruption Volcanoes: On the Decline? November 4, 2021 Monogenetic volcanoes pockmark the western United States, but their dates and causes are poorly understood. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Our Moon Refuses to Obey Scientists July 14, 2020 The neat theories for the origin of the moon and its subsequent evolution unravel when you try to stuff long ages into a young body. CONTINUE READING
Dating Methods Beware of Overconfident Dating Methods October 27, 2017 Simplistic presentations about how scientists date rocks overlook the worldview assumptions involved. CONTINUE READING
Geology Rapid Earth Changes in Historic Times December 6, 2016 What happened to the Sahara desert? What's going on in Java, man? Geologists are surprised sometimes by recent major changes. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Juno How Old the Solar System Is? July 6, 2016 Everyone knows the solar system is 4.5 billion years old. Everyone, that is, except Nature herself. CONTINUE READING
Geology New Earth Ocean Theory Is All Wet November 16, 2015 Time to rewrite the textbooks again. Earth started out wet, scientists now claim, overturning decades of dogma. CONTINUE READING
Geology Rapid, Plentiful Gold Possible October 20, 2015 Geologists have up-estimated the process of gold ore transportation from deep underground to surface by a factor of ten to a hundred. CONTINUE READING
Solar System New Thoughts on Habitable Planets October 9, 2015 Astrobiologists are trying to standardize the requirements for habitable planets. Do they get them all? CONTINUE READING
Solar System Full Moon Has Magnetic Secret December 5, 2014 Ponder this under tonight's full moon. Scientists now say the moon once had a magnetic field stronger than Earth's is now. CONTINUE READING
Geology Geology Sale November 19, 2014 We need to clear the deck of geology news. Here's a garage sale of interesting headlines, provided "as is" for researchers to pursue further. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Lunar Impact: Major Moon Basin Was Not a Big Hit October 8, 2014 The theory of how the largest impact basin on the moon was formed has been turned upside down. CONTINUE READING
Geology Earth as a Habitable Planet September 29, 2014 When viewed as a planet among planets, Earth is surprisingly surprising, considering how close it is to scientists' investigating eyes. CONTINUE READING
Dating Methods Geology Can Be Explosively Rapid June 1, 2012 When people hear of "geologic time," they are trained to think of millions of years. Big things can happen in far less time. CONTINUE READING