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How Earthquakes Revealed Earth’s Hidden Inner Core

Introduction

How do we know what’s inside the Earth? Mostly from...

September 18, 2026

  • Geophysics

The Geologic Time Scale, Explained: Eons, Eras, Periods, etc.

Introduction

On a fine day in June 1788, three men rowed...

September 15, 2026

  • Paleontology
  • Petrology

St. Francis Dam Disaster: The Night Los Angeles Changed

Introduction

A carpenter named Ace Hopewell rode his motorcycle up San Francisquito Canyon...

September 3, 2026

  • Geohazards

Herculaneum’s Glass Brain: How Vesuvius Made Obsidian

Introduction

Sometime in the small hours of the second day, a young man...

September 1, 2026

  • Volcanology

Pangaea Ultima: The Supercontinent That Could End Mammals

Introduction

On 10 July 1913, the caretaker at Greenland Ranch, a...

August 31, 2026

  • Geophysics

The Dolomite Problem: A Mountain Range That Shouldn’t Exist

A clear bottle that would not obey

In a laboratory that...

August 30, 2026

  • Mineralogy

Geology, Explained: How Earth Works, from Rocks to Deep Time

Introduction

If you’re new here, welcome to Geoscopy, a geology science-communication project dedicated...

August 30, 2026

  • Geochemistry
  • Geohazards
  • Geomorphology
  • Geophysics
  • Paleontology
  • Petrology

How a Collapsing Glacier Drowned the Bhote Koshi Valley

Introduction

A glacier and the bedrock beneath it broke off the...

August 29, 2026

  • Geohazards

Nazaré’s Monster Waves: The Canyon Causing the Water Wall

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On the morning of 1 November 2011, a Hawaiian surfer...

August 23, 2026

  • Geomorphology

Dark Oxygen: The Deep-Sea Discovery Splitting Science

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In 2013, a benthic chamber about the size of a...

August 18, 2026

  • Geochemistry

Yonaguni Monument: Natural Formation or Man-Made Ruin?

Introduction

In the winter of 1986, a diving instructor named Kihachiro...

August 18, 2026

  • Geomorphology

Silverpit Crater: North Sea Asteroid Impact Confirmed

In the early 2000s, petroleum geoscientist Philip Allen noticed a set of concentric rings...

August 17, 2026

  • Geophysics

The Lake Peigneur Disaster: How a Drill Bit Drained a Lake

Introduction

Early on the morning of November 20, 1980, the drilling...

August 12, 2026

  • Geohazards

Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scablands

Introduction

Fly east out of Seattle, cross the Cascades, and the...

July 23, 2026

  • Geomorphology

The Ocean Inside the Earth: Water in the Mantle

Introduction

In a laboratory in Vienna, in the spring of 2009,...

July 21, 2026

  • Mineralogy
  • Petrology

Was the Cyclops in the Odyssey Real? It Was Just an Elephant

Introduction

On July 17, 2026, audiences filed into IMAX theaters to...

July 21, 2026

  • Paleontology

Venezuela Earthquake 24 June 2026: The M7.2 and M7.5 Doublet

Introduction

The Venezuela earthquake of 24 June 2026 began...

June 25, 2026

  • Geohazards
  • Geophysics

Lake Natron: The Truth About the Lake of Stone Animals

Introduction

Sometime between 2010 and 2012, the British photographer Nick Brandt...

June 22, 2026

  • Geochemistry

The Fires That Never Go Out: Earth’s Underground Coal Fires

Introduction

On Valentine’s Day 1981, twelve-year-old Todd Domboski crossed his grandmother’s...

June 15, 2026

  • Geohazards

The Rocks That Ring: Inside the Bell-Toned Boulder Fields

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On a June afternoon in 1890, in the wooded uplands...

June 14, 2026

  • Geomorphology

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