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The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

Earth

Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth's mantle

The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago saw a huge variety of animals evolve – and also led to carbon being buried in the seabed and ultimately carried into the planet’s mantle

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Environment

Christopher Jackson interview: How geologists can fight climate change

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The Super Pit is Australia???s largest open pit gold mine, producing around 850,000 ounces of the precious metal annually.

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Geology needs to reinvent itself as we fight against climate change

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Crawford Lake, one of the few meromictic lakes around the world, highlight of the Crawford Lake Conservation Area, south of Milton, Ontario Canada; Shutterstock ID 145107226; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Geologists to pinpoint official birthplace of the Anthropocene in 2022

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The Allan Hills 84001 meteorite courtesy of NASA/JSC/Stanford University.

Space

Organic compounds on Mars were produced by water and rocks, not life

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Space

The moon's magnetic field may have been altered by huge sinking rocks

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PAHOA, HI - MAY 4: In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, a column of robust, reddish-brown ash plume occurred after a magnitude 6.9 South Flank following the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on May 4, 2018 in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, Hawaii. The governor of Hawaii has declared a local state of emergency near the Mount Kilauea volcano after it erupted following a 5.0-magnitude earthquake, forcing the evacuation of nearly 1,700 residents. (Photo by U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images)

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Plumes of rock that feed volcanic hotspots are surprisingly cold

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$NASA image of Troctolite 76535. NASA/Johnson Space Center photograph S73-19456. - [1] Troctolite sample 76535 brought back from the Moon by Apollo 17. This sample has a mass of 156 grams and is up to 5 centimeters across. It was collected as part of a rake sample at station 6 at the foot of the North Massif. Another view of this sample was used in Figure 7-16 of the Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report (SP-330, 1973), which has the following caption: Coarse-grained norite (sample 76535) with fresh-appearing plagioclase (white to light gray) that has typical striations of albite twinning. Although pyroxenes (medium gray) are fractured along cleavage planes, they do not appear badly crushed.$