All Geology


Trappist travel poster

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2017

A travel poster by NASA imagining a trip to the new exoplanets announced in late February, Trappist…

Camping stove plume

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2017

An image of heat rising from a camping stove.

Volcanic activity better understood after Bolivian expedition

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2016

A magmatic lake 15km below a dormant volcano in Bolivia may explain how and why volcanoes erupt. !-…

King's Gully

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Nov 2016

A rift canyon forming part of the King's Gully in Ireland.

Molten silicon energy storage system created

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Oct 2016

A team of Spanish researchers are developing a system which allows energy to be stored in molten si…

Helium gas field found in Africa

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jul 2016

Scientists have located a large helium gas field and hope that this find can replenish quickly-decr…

Ice melt to cause higher sea levels

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2016

If Antarctica ice melts due to warming oceans, global sea levels could rise three metres, according…

Nature not solely to blame for severe droughts

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2016

Drought researchers and managers must include human activity when looking at severe droughts, accor…

Volcanic event responsible for Jurassic Period ice age

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2016

Scientists have uncovered the reason behind an ice age that took place around 170 million years ago…

Martian valleys carved by less ancient water

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2015

Martian valleys could have been carved by much less water in a much shorter time span than previous…

Life hits 4.1 billion years

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2015

New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.

Subduction zone formation finally explained

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2015

Geologists have explained how subduction zones – zones where one tectonic plate moves under another…

Green slime opens the door to the past

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Sep 2015

Green slime at the bottom of an Antarctic lake replicates conditions that occurred on Earth 2.8-2.4…

First digital geological map of the world’s ocean floor

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Sep 2015

Geologists have used geological data sets from ships to produce the world’s first digital map of th…

Martian glass may reveal ancient life

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2015

By using data from Mars, geologists have discovered evidence for the presence of glass which may be…

Calbuco volcano in Chile

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2015

The volcano Calbuco – one of the most active volcanoes in Chile – erupted twice in a few hours on 2…

Double dome points to largest asteroid impact

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2015

The world’s largest asteroid impact zone – invisible at the earth’s surface – has been found in cen…

A fault with the origin of life

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2014

New research has shown that deep-reaching interconnected fault systems provide the right conditions…

Safer fracking thanks to new early warning system

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2014

New technology developed at the University of Nottingham could be used as an early warning system t…

Rock breaking research offers insight into fracking

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Sep 2014

In a ground breaking discovery, geologists have discovered what else escapes from fractured shale o…