#earthscience — Public Fediverse posts
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China's Zhangye Danxia looks like a painted desert — hills banded in rust-red, gold, green and teal. The stripes are ancient river and lake sediments tinted by iron minerals, laid down over millions of years, then folded and tilted as the Tibetan Plateau rose. Wind and rain sculpted the rest into today's "rainbow mountains."
📷 Terry Wu, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colourful_mountains_of_the_Zhangye_National_Geopark.jpg -
Are we in the Anthropocene Epoch? Scientists can't decide
By Jacinta BowlerWhile the Anthropocene is a term most of us are well aware of, it is not an official geological epoch. Now a group of scientists has reignited the push to get it formally recognised.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-10-02/anthropocene-working-group-epoch-rejection/107215280
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Are we in the Anthropocene Epoch? Scientists can't decide
By Jacinta BowlerWhile the Anthropocene is a term most of us are well aware of, it is not an official geological epoch. Now a group of scientists has reignited the push to get it formally recognised.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-10-02/anthropocene-working-group-epoch-rejection/107215280
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Are we in the Anthropocene Epoch? Scientists can't decide
By Jacinta BowlerWhile the Anthropocene is a term most of us are well aware of, it is not an official geological epoch. Now a group of scientists has reignited the push to get it formally recognised.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-10-02/anthropocene-working-group-epoch-rejection/107215280
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Are we in the Anthropocene Epoch? Scientists can't decide
By Jacinta BowlerWhile the Anthropocene is a term most of us are well aware of, it is not an official geological epoch. Now a group of scientists has reignited the push to get it formally recognised.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-10-02/anthropocene-working-group-epoch-rejection/107215280
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Just damn. More gloom.
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**"Earth’s life-support systems are failing, scientists have warned – with seven out of nine key indicators now in the ‘danger zone’."**
#Earth'svitalsigns #climatechange #biosphere #earthscience #science
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16171803/Earths-life-support-systems-breached-scientists.html -
Just damn. More gloom.
🙁
**"Earth’s life-support systems are failing, scientists have warned – with seven out of nine key indicators now in the ‘danger zone’."**
#Earth'svitalsigns #climatechange #biosphere #earthscience #science
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16171803/Earths-life-support-systems-breached-scientists.html -
Just damn. More gloom.
🙁
**"Earth’s life-support systems are failing, scientists have warned – with seven out of nine key indicators now in the ‘danger zone’."**
#Earth'svitalsigns #climatechange #biosphere #earthscience #science
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16171803/Earths-life-support-systems-breached-scientists.html -
Just damn. More gloom.
🙁
**"Earth’s life-support systems are failing, scientists have warned – with seven out of nine key indicators now in the ‘danger zone’."**
#Earth'svitalsigns #climatechange #biosphere #earthscience #science
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16171803/Earths-life-support-systems-breached-scientists.html -
Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat: 10,582 km² of salt crust left behind when prehistoric lakes evaporated thousands of years ago. In the rainy season a thin film of water turns it into a giant mirror, and it is so flat that NASA uses it to calibrate satellite altimeters! Beneath the crust, brine holds a huge share of the world's lithium.
📷 Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Ideal Candidates for Interstellar Travel
https://buymeacoffee.com/newscafe/the-first-biological-astronauts-sent-beyond-solar-system-won-humans
#cosmos #interstellar #space #spaceScience #universe #solarsystem #earth #earthscience #research -
The Ideal Candidates for Interstellar Travel
https://buymeacoffee.com/newscafe/the-first-biological-astronauts-sent-beyond-solar-system-won-humans
#cosmos #interstellar #space #spaceScience #universe #solarsystem #earth #earthscience #research -
The Ideal Candidates for Interstellar Travel
https://buymeacoffee.com/newscafe/the-first-biological-astronauts-sent-beyond-solar-system-won-humans
#cosmos #interstellar #space #spaceScience #universe #solarsystem #earth #earthscience #research -
The Ideal Candidates for Interstellar Travel
https://buymeacoffee.com/newscafe/the-first-biological-astronauts-sent-beyond-solar-system-won-humans
#cosmos #interstellar #space #spaceScience #universe #solarsystem #earth #earthscience #research -
At the Grand Canyon, ~500-million-year-old Tapeats Sandstone rests directly on ~1.7-billion-year-old Vishnu Schist. That boundary is the Great Unconformity — over a billion years of Earth's history simply missing. Entire mountain ranges rose and eroded away without a trace. Photo: Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. #geology #earthscience
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At the Grand Canyon, ~500-million-year-old Tapeats Sandstone rests directly on ~1.7-billion-year-old Vishnu Schist. That boundary is the Great Unconformity — over a billion years of Earth's history simply missing. Entire mountain ranges rose and eroded away without a trace. Photo: Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. #geology #earthscience
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At the Grand Canyon, ~500-million-year-old Tapeats Sandstone rests directly on ~1.7-billion-year-old Vishnu Schist. That boundary is the Great Unconformity — over a billion years of Earth's history simply missing. Entire mountain ranges rose and eroded away without a trace. Photo: Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. #geology #earthscience
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At the Grand Canyon, ~500-million-year-old Tapeats Sandstone rests directly on ~1.7-billion-year-old Vishnu Schist. That boundary is the Great Unconformity — over a billion years of Earth's history simply missing. Entire mountain ranges rose and eroded away without a trace. Photo: Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. #geology #earthscience
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At the Grand Canyon, ~500-million-year-old Tapeats Sandstone rests directly on ~1.7-billion-year-old Vishnu Schist. That boundary is the Great Unconformity — over a billion years of Earth's history simply missing. Entire mountain ranges rose and eroded away without a trace. Photo: Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. #geology #earthscience
