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Cascadia, America's tectonic version of Sumatra, will have a magnitude-9 quake.
The health of the profession depends on basic good behavior.
Evidence converges on a volcanic explanation for "the great dying."
See the broken logic behind creationism's latest disguise.
No award in geology quite measures up to the grand prize.
Color schemes for the US Geological Survey and Europe.
Is a penny really hardness 3?
Geologists can find traces of storms past.
A handful of minerals account for all Earth's dirt.
Geologists may be the fittest of scientists.
A skeleton key to this enormous topic.
Recent geologic field work points west of Gibraltar.
America's biggest flood may become its biggest virtual park.
Japan has been preparing for it for over 25 years.
Is geology a lonely life? Geologists answer.
Is quicksand real, or is it only in the movies?
Geologists are nearing the places where earthquakes are born.
The world's largest landslide slid on a gas cushion.
Careful: some of these 12 questions may drive you BATS.
The largest city on this fault has textbook features of fault creep.
When the aftershocks and flames finished, San Francisco was reborn.
A survey of the five main kinds of volcano.
Actual tissues can escape being petrified for a very long time.
The "skin" of a baseball infield is a precision geotechnical product.
Deep quakes—below 70 kilometers—aren't even supposed to happen.
The greatest quake in more than 40 years takes its place in history.
Start here for the seismic basics.
How the newest geologic time scale lost its Quaternary Period.
There's no clock ticking for this exam, but don't take . . . too LONG.
There's a third, online way besides the open and gray literature.
As a child I learned that coal can be good home heating.
The gallery of upper-atmosphere lights has a new member: tigers.
Of all the things Earth has done, this may be its neatest trick.
The world moves closer to consistency, from Archean to Holocene.
A 12-point intensity scale for sea waves is much like that used for quakes.
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