#ScienceNews for #September 2025: A new study reveals how diamond-rich melts from deep within Earth’s mantle make it to the surface 🌋💎 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

#ScienceNews for #September 2025: Research led by #NASA suggests a habitable past on #Mars based on the discovery of minerals in Martian rocks associated with life on Earth 💎👽 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

#ScienceNews for #September 2025: After 20 years of controversy, a study presents new evidence that a circular basin buried beneath the seafloor of the North Sea has an extraterrestrial impact origin ☄️🌊 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

#ScienceNews for #September 2025: The U.S. Geological Survey has released the most detailed national-scale geologic map of the contiguous #UnitedStates to date online 🇺🇸 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

September 30, 1861, German naturalist Hermann von Meyer publishes the first description of Archaeopteryx - the iconic old feathered one 🪶

September 30, día del Geologo in Colombia 🇨🇴 ⚒️ Among many other geological wonders, Colombia is famous for the Muzo emerald deposits and the Nevado del Ruiz. iugs-geoheritage.org/designations/

"Ruri Rocks" also known as" Introduction to Mineralogy" is a Japanese manga and now anime series featuring a surprisingly realistic depiction of rockhounding 💎🪨⛏️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruri_Ro...

A new study reveals how diamond-rich melts from deep within Earth’s mantle make it to the surface 🌋💎#MineralMonday www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

September 29, 1839, German mineralogist Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs dies after a short illness during a field-trip to Agordo in the Dolomites.

September 29, 1998, died on this day Swiss petrologist and mineralogy teacher Albert Streckeisen. The Quartz - Alkali feldspar - Plagioclase - Feldspathoids diagram (short QAPF - diagram) for the classification of igneous rocks is also known as "Streckeisen diagram" in his honor.

September 28, 1845, the first & today oldest surveillance center for monitoring an active volcano is opened on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, Italy 🌋 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesuviu...

September 28, 1987, #StarTrek - The Next Generation (or short TNG) debuts on TV. Like in the original series, also in TNG minerals, rocks, even fossils play a role, as seen in Captain Picard's ready room 💎🖖 www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/geological-s...

After 20 years of controversy, a study presents new evidence that a circular basin buried beneath the seafloor of the North Sea has an extraterrestrial impact origin ☄️ www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

September 25, 1749, birthday of German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner. He published some of the first "modern" field guides using physical properties, like color, crystal shape, density and even taste to identify minerals ...

September 25, 1839, birthday of naturalist Karl Alfred von Zittel. Pioneer of paleontological/stratigraphic research in Austria & Germany. In 1848 he used the name "Ammonoidea" specifically referring to an extinct group of cephalopods with an outer curled shell🦑 #FossilFriday

September 21, 1787, French adventurer & naturalist Dieudonné Guy Sylvain Tancrède de Dolomieu - also known as Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu - collects some samples of a greyish and unusually hard limestone in Tyrol ...

Charles Lapworth, born September 20, 1842, & geology students on a field trip in 1896. Trained as a school teacher, after his move to Scotland in 1864, & although largely self-taught, he soon began to make significant contributions towards unravelling the geology of the Southern Uplands

September 19, 1832, the Beagle anchors in the harbor of Buenos Aires, where Charles Darwin recovers some days later his first fossils. In the following three years he will collect further vertebrate bones in Argentina and Uruguay 🦴 forbes.com/sites/davidb...

September 18, 1972, Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu, Maria Bianca Cita & William B. F. Ryan publish the results of the 1970 Glomar Challenger expedition and drilling operations, suggesting the Mediterranean Sea dried out during the Messinian age (7.2 - 5.3 million years ago).

September 19, 1857, the first (officially recorded) peak climbed in the Dolomites is the 3.168 meters high Monte Pelmo. Surrounded by steep cliffs, the summit seems unclimbable at first ...

September 15, 1835, H.M.S. Beagle drops anchor at the Galapagos Islands. Charles Darwin starts collecting specimens and taking geological notes, discovering the basics of magmatic evolution 🌋 forbes.com/sites/davidb...

The New York Times published an obituary for Mark Allen Norell, a pioneering American vertebrate paleontologist who passed away September 9, 2025 aged 68 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/s...

September 14, 1769, birthday of German mining engineer, naturalist & explorer Alexander von Humboldt. This hand-drawing by Humboldt shows magmatic dikes near Predazzo in the Dolomites, a site that played an important role in the history of geology ⚒️ www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/alexander-vo...

September 14, 1976, the Laetoli footprints were found by chance when bored members of an archeological expedition led by Mary Leakey were hurling (dry) elephant dung at each other at the end of a long survey day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEZh...

From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters 🎵 New Map Shows #US #Geology In Unprecedented Detail 🇺🇸⚒️ www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

September 14, 1899, birthday of American seismologist Victor Hugo Benioff. In 1955, while mapping the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean, he noted that the earthquakes' origin follow the subducting seafloor.

#FossilFriday Research led by #NASA suggests a habitable past on #Mars based on the discovery of minerals in Martian rocks associated with decaying organic matter - like here vivianite on a fossil shell from #Crimea - on #Earth 💎🦴 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

September 12, 1940, the entrance to Lascaux Cave (#France) is discovered by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat. The cave walls are covered with depictions of animals close to 20.000 years old. twilightbeasts.org/2019/06/26/t...

September 12, 2023, British-Polish geologist Jan Zalasiewicz wins the #IGNoble Prize for answering the century-old question ‘Why Geologists Love To Lick Rocks’ 🪨👅 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

September 11, 1522, birthday of Italian physician and naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. Studying plants & animals to find medical remedies, he became interested in stone tools, crystals & petrifactions found in the ground naming them fossilia or fossilis meaning "the excavated things."

September 10, 1907, birthday of Australian geologist Dorothy Hill. Her studies on coral reef stratigraphy became the worldwide standard. In 2018 a GoogleDoodle celebrated her legacy 🇦🇺⚒️

"I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me" September 10, 1941, birthday of paleontologist, biologist, author & historian of science Stephen Jay Gould 🦖

September 10, 1932, Science News reports that "Earth's interior is 'boiling' like a soup kettle, with the continents floating on the surface like flakes of scum." www.sciencenews.org/archive/eart...

September 8, 1966, first episode of Star Trek - The Original Series aired on TV. In "The Man Trap" a mineral plays an important role in the plot 👽 💎 www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/geological-s...

September 8, 1762, a young boy from the French village of Laval is mauled to death. The killings continue in the next years, soon the creature became known as the Beast of Gévaudan 🐺 - and ancient volcanoes play a role in this terrific tale 🌋 tinyurl.com/ycu84z2y

September 7, 1859, birthday of British paleontologist, geologist & political activist Margaret Chorley Crosfield. She was an expert on Silurian fossils and the geology of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚒️ www.geological-digressions.com/margaret-cho...

September 7, 1707, birthday of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, one of the first naturalists to speculate about the age of earth in millions of years. He also argued that we need a "geotheory"- #science to explain our world 🌍 tinyurl.com/ydfnn3uw

September 7, 1964 marks the anniversary of the publication of one of the most cited papers in geology: “Magnetic Anomalies Over Oceanic Ridges" by Vine & Matthews: www.nature.com/articles/201...

A #landslide buried an entire village in #Sudan, killing at least 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the #African country’s history www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

#Earthquake Hits #Afghanistan-#Pakistan Border www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

September 2, 1806, a landslide destroys the Swiss village of Goldau - it will become the first landslide to be investigated in detail by geologists historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2010/09/2-se...

September 2, 2018, a fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro damages the historic mineral collection used by German geognost Abraham Gottlob Werner to create his mineral classification ...

September 2, 1973, died #OTD, J.R.R #Tolkien, linguist, scholar and author of "The Lord of the Rings" - Gandalf the #Geologist as he studies the Mithril veins in the mines of Moria 🧙 ⚒️ www.earthmagazine.org/article/geol...

August 27, 1883, in the early morning hours, Krakatoa explodes and collapses causing a tsunami wave 40 meter high in the Sunda Strait and killing 30.000 people: www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

August 27, 1966, Surtsey, a volcanic island that emerged in November 1963 from the sea off the coast of Iceland & named after a fire-giant of Icelandic mythology, experiences one of its largest eruptions since its birth 🌋

August 18, 1741, first mention of fossils from the Dolomite Alps in a public lecture by Austrian physician Franz Ferdinand von Giuliani. He presented the petrified shells as evidence for the biblical flood 🌊🐚 www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/the-fossils-...

August 11, 1858, the peak of Mount Eiger (3.970 meters) in the Swiss Alps is successfully conquered by local guides Christian Almer, Peter Bohren & Irish mountaineer Charles Barrington.

August 11, 1799, birthday of French engineer and fossil collector Joachim Barrande. In the year 1833, during fieldwork for a planned horse-railway near the villages of Skryje and Tyrovice, Barrande discovered various fossiliferous sites...

Researchers have discovered that the #supereruptions that flooded vast areas of #Oregon, #Washington and #Idaho with lava occurred in brief but powerful bursts 🌋🌋 www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...

July 31, 2023, died #OTD W. Jason Morgan. In the 1960s he helped to develop the modern theory of plate tectonics by reconstructing how tectonic plates can move on the curved surface of Earth 🌐 facebook.com/groups/29313...