Geology in the News

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A colorful shell of a fossilized squid-like ammonite. Photo credit: Hiroaki Imai.

11/28/2025: Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Way More Valuable

11/24/2025: Volcano Erupts after Lying Dormant for 12,000 Years, Sending Scientists Scrambling

11/24/2025: Geoscientists Find Explanation for Mysterious Structures within Earth’s Mantle

11/24/2025: Kazakhstan Opens World-Class Geological Cluster in Zhezkazgan

11/22/2025: 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Reveal Earth’s Hidden Tectonic Past

11/14/2025: Massive hidden waves are rapidly melting Greenland’s glaciers

11/14/2025: Interior Department Releases Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals

11/13/2025: Well-Preserved Impact Crater Discovered in China

11/11/2025: Why Do 70% of Diamonds Come From One Bizarre Type of Volcano?

11/11/2025: Dinosaur Eggshells Help Paleontologists Determine Age of Fossil-Bearing Rocks

11/11/2025: How a Sea Creature’s Fossils Show All the Colors of the Rainbow

Undated: British & Exotic Mineralogy, All 2,242 illustrations from James Sowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy drawn 1802–1817 and arranged by color.