Introduction

Sometime around 1271, a young Venetian crossed the desert east of the...

Introduction

The ground gave almost no warning. Somewhere beneath what would...

Introduction

On 6 June 1961, the needles on long-period seismographs scattered...

You Have Noclipped Into the Earth

Stand in the middle of...

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Before sunrise the salt plain gives nothing away. The Asale...

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A guide and a tourist are picking their way across...

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Some patterns in nature look too deliberate to be accidental. The hexagonal...

Introduction

Walk the bank of the Shanay-timpishka and the first thing...

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Desert varnish is a dark, paper-thin coating of manganese and...

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The Batagay megaslump, often called the Batagaika crater, is the largest retrogressive...

Introduction

On the evening of January 12, 1927, a 44-year-old geology...

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On the night of July 9, 1958, a wall of...

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On a low rise of Arctic tundra near the Norwegian...

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Just before 11 p.m. on 8 September 2023, security cameras around Marrakech...

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In May 1972, at the uranium-enrichment plant at Pierrelatte in...

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At 5:02 p.m. local time on January 15, 2022, an...

A Light in the Abyss

The Lost City Hydrothermal Field is...

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In the summer field season of 1911, a young Australian geologist named...

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A limnic eruption is one of Earth’s strangest killers, an...

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On June 4, 1965, James McDivitt and Ed White were four days...