Geology news, features and articles

A metal detectorist has unearthed a gold nugget that is currently up for auction and expected to sell for over $37,000.

Earth is covered with water, but how much is hiding in our planet's crust?

Tall, many-armed star dunes are common in deserts worldwide, but scientists know little about the histories of these formations.

Researchers have discovered a large gas reservoir boasting extremely high concentrations of helium that could boost a dwindling global supply in Minnesota's Iron Range.

Magnetic data suggest Seattle's fault line formed 55 million years ago, when the southern half of a subducting chain of volcanic islands piled onto the continent and tore apart from the northern half.

Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago.

Researchers uncovered fossils of multicellular eukaryotes that are over a billion years old.

Fjords, many of them sculpted over many ice ages, can form all over Earth. So why does Norway have so many?

Giant exploding craters only known to exist on Russia's permafrost-covered Yamal and Gydan peninsulas may result from a specific set of conditions not found elsewhere in the Arctic.

The Indian plate may be peeling into two as it slides under the Eurasian plate, tearing Tibet apart in the process.