Complex mesoscale landscapes beneath Antarctica mapped from space The landscape shrouded by the Antarctic Ice Sheet provides important insights into its history and influences the ice response to climate forcing. However, knowledge of this critical boundary has depe...

Researchers in Science have mapped Antarctica’s hidden subglacial bedrock landscape—one of the Solar System’s least mapped planetary surfaces—in unprecedented detail, revealing previously unseen geological structures shaping the ice sheet from below. https://scim.ag/4sNqQgf

Meandering Streamflows: Patterns and Processes across Landscapes and Scales - GEOSCIENTIST Meandering Streamflows offers a broad and detailed look at why streams bend, how they change, and what those changes mean across different environments.

Pleased to share my book review for ‘Meandering Streamflows: Patterns and Processes across landscapes and scales’ has now been published online in Geoscientist magazine @geoscientistmag.bsky.social

🔗 Read the review here: geoscientist.online/sections/boo...

Terrible Lizards: Nanotyrannus or not? The biggest news in palaeontology this year dropped just in time for us to miss it with last month’s episode but we’re giving it the full hour this time. The idea that there’s a miniature tyrannosaur ...

So we're slightly late to the party given that the big news dropped a month ago, but here's a full hour of the #TerribleLizards #Podcast where @iszi.com and I talk about #Nanotyrannus and what it all means for T. rex and tyrannosaur research going forwards. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus

This is figure 1, which shows surfaces of icy satellites.

Ice shell thinning on small icy satellites in the outer Solar System can cause subsurface oceans to boil, according to a study in Nature Astronomy. This process may help to explain surface features and geological activity on moons such as Saturn’s Mimas and Enceladus. go.nature.com/3JVCJ2p 🔭 🧪

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On 24 November 1859, ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ by Charles Darwin was published, introducing the idea that species evolve through natural selection. It reshaped biology, palaeontology, and our understanding of Earth’s deep history.

Thanks ol’ Charlie boy! 💚👏

Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities Tetrapods invaded oceanic environments after the cataclysmic end-Permian mass extinction (EPME), with temnospondyl amphibian to reptile-dominated assemblages succeeding across the Early Triassic [~251...

Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event, aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and diverse oceanic ecosystems, according to a Science study of an Early Triassic-age fossil site in the Arctic.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4r0k0U1

New paper out today assesses the potential for in-situ CO₂ mineralisation in UK onshore igneous rocks. The findings suggest a far larger storage capacity than previously thought, with major implications for decarbonisation planning.

🔗 www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

#geology #climate

The Erosion of Evidence: Why Attacks on Science Put Us All at Risk What happens when powerful interests twist science into doubt and distrust?

I wrote a piece of Substack on the rising hostility toward scientific expertise and evidence. If this interests you, the full article is below ⬇️

#science #politics #evidence

Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification” Two “mummies” of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens preserve a fleshy crest over the neck and trunk, an interdigitating spike row over the hips and tail, and hooves cappi...

A new study by Sereno et al. (2025), published in #Science, reveals astonishing details from two “mummified” #Edmontosaurus #fossils found in Wyoming, including fleshy midline crests, tail spikes, and incredibly, hoof-like toes!

You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Starmer turns to cop to fend off green threat

Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,

refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field

Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?

Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Seems sensible to me… Earth scientists are planetary scientists after all! 🤷🏻‍♂️🌍

Imagine compressing Earth’s 4.6 billion year history into a single day. Humans appear in the final second, and in that instant, we alter the atmosphere more than all biogeochemical processes did for millions of years.

#Geology #Climate #DeepTime #EarthScience

Kane Coxon | Substack Unearthing my path: from a career in psychology and mental health to geology student. Click to read Kane Coxon, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

I write evidence-based essays on #geology, #palaeontology, and sometimes a bit of interdisciplinary thinking across #psychology and the #EarthSciences over at kanecoxon.substack.com 🌍📚

Do have a look if you’re interested in our planet’s 4.6 billion year journey from stardust to the #Anthropocene.

APXS Derived Geochemistry of Shallow Water Lens Bodies Within the Mirador Formation, Gale Crater, Mars—Evidence for Intermittent Wet Periods and Implications for the Water Record We present Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer data for interdune bodies in the Contigo member of the Mirador formation, Gale crater We interpret the lenses to represent a mixing between the host M...

Our paper on the geochemistry of interdune bodies in Gale crater was published yesterday.

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