Fluvial conglomerate red beds. Clasts are vein quartz, schist, and underlying limestones. Outcrop is ~3m high.

Fossilised Crinoid stems and segments in a dark sedimentary stone from County Clare, Ireland. The dark color is due to organic matter that did not decompose in anoxic circumstances. In such environments bacteria thrive that use organic and form sulfur.

Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era.

Dozens of waterways in Alaska are rusting, or turning into a dirty orange even when seen from space, likely because of permafrost thawing in the summer is now exposing minerals to the surface, releasing metals and acid.

Iridium is an uncommon metal on the Earth's surface which is very abundant in meteorites. The discovery of an iridium anomaly in sedimentary strata around the earth is critical evidence that an asteroid impact caused the global extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs and many other species.

The meteorite once belonged to a colossal mass of iron that split from the asteroid belt 320 million years ago. It penetrated the Earth’s atmosphere on Feb 12, 1947, breaking into smaller meteorites and blazing over Siberia’s Sikhote-Alin Mountains in a fireball brighter than the sun.

Remnants of life in ancient rocks in South Africa is thought to contain some of the oldest known fossils reveal Earth may have been teeming with a complex ecosystem of microorganisms as far back as 3.4 billion years ago.

Plastics were small enough to qualify as nanoplastics: microscopic flecks so small that they can be absorbed into human cells and tissue, as well as cross the blood-brain barrier.

That how a frozen spider web looks like formed at -20C°.

A fossilized jawbone belonging to a Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur to be scientifically described and named.

Scientists are proposing that hot natural gas seeping from underground reserves might be behind the explosive craters that keep appearing in Siberia.

A submerged landmass near Australia could once have been home to 5 lakh people. The land was submerged at the end of the last ice age, about 18,000 years ago.

C3S confirmed 2023 as the hottest year, going back to 1850, in paleoclimatic data records from sources such as tree rings and air bubbles in glaciers.

On average, in 2023 the planet was 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels.

A23a, the world's biggest iceberg, is on the move 37 years after it broke off from Antarctica. The iceberg, which covers about 1,500 square miles, is set to enter the Atlantic Ocean.

He/She died doing what he loved.

Volcanic eruption near Grindavik, Iceland.

Kaiso fishing port where on uplift had occurred during Monday's M7.6 quake.

Yummy rocks or chocolate crystal wafers look as if they would melt in your mouth. These are calcite-hematite crystals.

Water levels are so low a rarely-seen underwater cave and century-old ruins have appeared. The area has experienced little rain over the summer. The drought combined with high heat to produce all-time low water levels.