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Although some scientists still think in terms of an expanding earth model in opposition to the Plate Tectonics theory they are in no way united

This fossil is really amazing, if the reconstruction of what occurred is correct. How do uniformitarians cope with it - see http://phys.org/news/2021-05-fossil-ancient-squid-crustacean-eaten.html ... well, they

Sent in by Gary - another interesting piece of geology. This time on Mars - see www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9553955/ ... Mars could be geologically active - evidence

At https://phys.org/news/2021-05-year-history-current-yields-climate.html ... a 50,000 year history of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [AMOC] has been achieved via sediment cores taken off the

Sent in by Robert. At https://creation.com/candles-turned-to-stone ,,, petrification is a process by which organic material is gradually turned into stone. It is mostly associated with

Robert sent in the link to www.sciencealert.com/natural-radio-emission-has-been-discovered-in-the-a... ... in July of 2020 the Parker solar probe swooped low around Venus and discovered something odd. At

William sent in the link to this story at www.yahoo.com/news/odd-fossil-found-mississippi-gravel-193528501.html ... and see also www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article250582244.html ... a rock found in central Mississippi has intrigued geologists.

International Geology Review volume 46 [2004] page 833-838 - the Laramide Orogeny  occurred during Late Cretaceous to Paleocene [80 to 55 million years ago]. You

Gary sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2021-04-line-fuzzier-asteroids-comets-similar.html ... space is filled with interplanetary dust and the Earth constantly collects it as it orbits around the

Tony Haynes would have liked this one. At https://phys.org/news/2021-04-plasma.html ... an intense laser pulse in an ionised gas drives a bubble shaped plasma wave consisting

A new study in Current Biology concerns DNA evidence about the human colonisation of Europe in the post Late Glacial Maximum period. See for example

At https://phys.org/news/2021-04-biggest-iron-age-weapon-hoards.html ... the discovery of one of the biggest Iron Age weapon hoards in Germany - on a small mountain. Do they mean a

An interesting discovery in Iceland - going back the Viking era. See www.livescience.com/viking-boat-structure-ragnarok.html .... archaeologists have discovered a cave where a boat shaped structure was

The claim is that scientists made a further step towards understanding dark energy - see https://phys.org/news/2021-04-scientists-dark-energy.html ... via the 'Bryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey' - otherwise

Melting rocks require a lot of heat, one might think, or seismic reaction to outward forces - but see https://phys.org/news/2021-04-scientists-probe-mysterious-earth-crust.html ... which is a story

Robert sent in several links concerning Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil remains. The first one is an article in Science journal, 372 page 284-287 [2021] April 16th.

At https://notrickszone.com/2021/04/17/the-dawn-of-the-e-vehicle--battery-e... ... it is bad enough that wind turbine blades cannot be recycled, and have to be cut up and placed in landfill but

At https://phys.org/news/2021-04-ultra-high-energy-gamma-rays-pulsar-nebula... ... ultra high energy gamma rays originate from pulsar nebulae - as published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters - see https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abf4dc ... it

At https://sciencex.com/news/2021-04-prehistoric-cave-painters-high-oxygen.... ... this is not the first research to suggest European cave paintings are the product of people high on something or other -

At https://phys.org/news/2021-04-multi-wavelength-reveal-impact-black-hole.... ... the black hole at the core of the galaxy M87 has been intensively studied via multi wavelength observations across the electro-magnetic spectrum.