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Iceland’s Dragon Rock and the Silent Sculptors of the North AtlanticThere is a truth that visitors eventually accept about Iceland: this country feels “Earth-like...

The Red Sandstone Labyrinth of the Mojave DesertThere is a place in the middle of the Mojave Desert; while driving, the color of the...

The Geological Story of the World’s Largest Salt MirrorWhen you look at Salar de Uyuni from a distance, on a clear day, the line...

The Wildest, Weirdest, “How Is This Even Real?” Minerals on EarthLet’s be honest: geology at school feels clean and organized. Crystals have systems, hardness...

There are millions of minerals on Earth, but only a tiny group really steps onto the stage and tears the light apart with some...

Why Some Volcanoes Are Far More Dangerous Than OthersWhen people imagine a volcano, they usually picture slow-moving red lava gently flowing down a mountainside....

There are rocks on this planet that make you stop for a second and say, “How is this even possible?” Some of them look...

Color-change gemstones have this strange, almost hypnotic power over people. You look at them once, and they seem familiar. You look again under a...

Volcanic landscapes are some of the most mysterious, dramatic, and photogenic environments on the planet. For a geologist, these places are like an open-air...

The biggest disasters that ever happened on Earth were not volcanoes, earthquakes, or tsunamis.The real destroyers came from the sky.Some of the biggest shifts...

The world is actually a system that is constantly breaking, falling apart, moving, and being carried away. A human lifespan is so short that...

Columnar basalt formations are one of those natural things that make even a geologist like me stop for a moment and think, “did nature...