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Why do Earth’s hidden stress fields matter for our future? Let’s explore the latest insights from the World Stress Map d...

Beneath the serene landscapes we inhabit, the Earth’s crust is a battleground of constant, immense, and invisible tectonic forces. While humanity typically only notices this deep-s...

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Timbercraft: Lost Tectonics from East Asia

At a time when timber is again reshaping architectural practice, Timbercraft: Lost Tectonics from East Asia revisits the enduring legacy of traditional East Asian construction. Spa...

Local Geology Inspires Vision for Energy and Minerals Lab at Colorado School of Mines

Collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and Colorado School of Mines brings a complicated design to life.

Earthquake fault irregularities control rupture speed and influence ground motion

New models show that high-speed rupture propagation produces stronger and longer-duration ground motion The post Earthquake fault irregularities control rupture speed and influence...

Wall Material Stiffness Shapes Building Response to Mining Tremors

Wall Material Stiffness Shapes Building Response to Mining Tremors

The 3D Underground Map

DrillerDB Underground is very different from a conventional map, which presents the Earth's surface as a flat 2D view from directly above. Instead, it offers a striking oblique 3D...

Geophysicist identifies a maximum practical viscosity

Boundary between materials that flow and those that don’t could shed light on Earth’s early history The post Geophysicist identifies a maximum practical viscosity appeared first on...

PhD scholarship application in Geomechanics at University of Lyon - Modelling the hydromechanical-gas behaviour of fract...

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Explore One of Earth’s Greatest Geological Mysteries on This Colorado Field Trip Hosted By The Geological Society of Ame...

Scientists Detect Strange New Structures Deep Inside the Earth

They're buried thousands of miles below the surface. The post Scientists Detect Strange New Structures Deep Inside the Earth appeared first on Futurism.

Wiring the Spirit’s House

Lamont scientists Terry Plank and Einat Lev worked with partners in Chile to install a new suite of sensors on the summit of Villarrica, bringing real-time monitoring to one of Chi...

Rethinking defense with earthquake engineering

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during August!

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section...

Ground engineering trio for Sizewell C

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, VSL Systems (UK) Ltd , and Bachy Soletanche will team up to deliver geotechnical works for Sizewell C, including piling, soil mixing, diaphragm w...

From under Lake Nyos: The geology, physics, and engineering of limnic eruptions

On the evening of August 21, 1986, an unusual stillness blanketed the green highlands of northwestern Cameroon. The local villagers in Nyos, Cha, and Subum were preparing for bed,...

Physics-based simulations could improve earthquake-damage predictions, why aren’t they being used?

Discussion and debate at the US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering The post Physics-based simulations could improve earthquake-damage predictions, why aren’t they being...

Topology affects the crumpling of growing elastic sheets

Discovery could lead to new metamaterials The post Topology affects the crumpling of growing elastic sheets appeared first on Physics World.

Interactive: The Heezen–Tharp World Ocean Floor Map

Explore Marie Tharp's groundbreaking 1977 World Ocean Floor map and discover how it transformed our understanding of the Earth.

3.1-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Rewrite the History of Earth’s Early Tectonics

Earth may have been recycling surface water through its deep interior more than three billion years ago. In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, volcanic rocks more than three...

Geologists reveal the Americas collided millions of years earlier than thought

Volcanic rocks in Colombia are rewriting the timeline of the collision between Central and South America. Their magnetic signatures show that major tectonic deformation had already...

A 2-Billion-Year-Old Clue Challenges a Popular Earth Science Theory

A key geological clue to a global disruption in Earth’s ancient carbon cycle may have a more local origin. Between roughly 2.5 and 2 billion years ago, Earth underwent the greatest...