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drilling site in Lancashire

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The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

Cuadrilla is pressing ahead with a project to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, but a geologist thinks plans for industrial-scale fracking may be doomed

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The tip of a submerged continent

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Voyage to study Earth’s mostly submerged hidden continent begins

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Waves in water

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Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Underwater sand dunes

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Earth's underwater dunes help explain Venus's weird surface

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Drawing of ringwoodite crystal structure

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There’s as much water in Earth’s mantle as in all the oceans

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Don Swanson

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The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died

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Icy landscape

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Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep

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The Dresser formation

Life

3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea

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Zircon mineral grains

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Early Earth was covered in a global ocean and had no mountains

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map showing subduction zones

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Map of the underworld may let us play plate tectonics in reverse

An atlas of the ancient continents swallowed up long ago is the first to show the whereabouts of almost 100 tectonic plates that have sunk

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Warming drives Alaskan glacier to its lowest point in 900 years

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Rock solid evidence of Anthropocene seen in 208 minerals we made

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Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story

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Secrets of Earth's birth carried in lava jets from planet's core

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