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We only figured out how our planet's geology works a few decades ago -- and we may still have not figured it entirely.
Discover the fiery geological wonders of the Ring of Fire and how it has impacted the surrounding regions over time.
They won't run out during your lifetime, but there's a catch...
They're the schist.
Most waves form due to winds or tides, but tsunamis have a different cause altogether.
Let's talk some mountains.
It was big and fearsome, but what other mysteries does T. Rex hide?
From marble blue to very, very brown.
These are the most important cave types that you need to know.
Over 70 years as humanity has begun to explore space, we have upon occasion, turned our gaze back to our own world, producing images that highlight our place in the vastness of space.
A lifelong debate surrounding the inner core's phased was finally settled by Swedish researchers.
Which one is your favorite?
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Trilobite.
It's a recipe that requires lots of dead plants, cooked at high pressure and temperature for millions of years.
One's always beneath the surface, the other is steaming outside.
The mantle is a whopping 2,900 km (1,802 miles) thick, and it's by far the thickest layer of the Earth.
Lithium mining is essential for supplying the world with batteries. But there's a dark side to it.
We're still just scractching the surface of the planet.
This has got to be one of the strangest places on Earth- - but you couldn't make much of it if you were just walking by.
This is the story of the last in a breed of geological titans, a supercontinent we named Gondwana.
Not all icebergs are white and pure.
Lava is very hot. But exactly how hot? The answer isn't straightforward.
Imagine the biggest wave you can imagine. Now make it bigger.
It's seriously cool, in more ways than you think.
It's one of the more spectacular things in geology... or is it biology?
Given the development of California and its proximity to the fault, San Andreas can cause huge problems in the not-too-distant future.
Your introduction to the world of sedimentary rocks and processes.
Wind, geology, and chemistry meet up to create this important phenomenon.
Basalts, granites, and everything in between: all you wanted to know about igneous rocks.
It's remarkable what a few repetitive atoms can do.
From the god of Hell to mountains in Poland, geological eras have quite diverse inspiration behind their names.
An otherworldly place, right here on our planet.
Time to meet the 'Everest of the deep'.
We can't be sure of its exact size, but we know it was terribly big.
The movement of tectonic plates can sometimes cause the surface of the plane to rumble. But there's more to it.
The king of the lizards turned out to be the first fully ocean-dwelling whale.
No matter how salty you get, you'll never be as salty as the ocean
A foray millions of years into the past.
Exploring the fascinating origins and meanings behind some of the most iconic dinosaur names.
Its name shares a root with the Latin word 'spumam' ('foam').
There's more to these amazing prehistoric animals than their long canine teeth.
The cold hard facts about ice ages.
The Earth's great recycle bin.
These are two of the most spectacular phenomena you can observe -- and they can be intertwined.
Seismic waves can either be body waves or surface waves -- but the full story is far more complex.
Some volcanoes really are super.
Eons ago, many millennia before written history, bizarre animals roamed the Earth.
Geology just rocks!
We can't deduce everything, but we can deduce A LOT.
Spoiler alert: it's probably not China. Or Australia.
