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Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes

Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed for the evolution of the photosynthetic microbes responsible for most of the oxygen now in Earth’s atmosphere

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Earliest evidence of a meteorite hitting Earth found in Australia

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The evidence was found in a group of sedimentary and volcanic rocks in western Australia

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Watch how the continents have shifted over the past 100 million years

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Reconstruction of Earth's surface 90 million years ago, showing North America, Europe and Africa fragmented
An aerial shot of Li River and Mashan Mountain in Yangshuo County, Guilin

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Earth's 'geological thermostat' is too slow to prevent climate change

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Illustration of Earth's structure showing the core

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Earthquakes suggest Earth's core has started spinning more slowly

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The Slumgullion landslide

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Landslides can be triggered by small changes in atmospheric pressure

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Electron microscope image of hexagonal diamond in a meteorite

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Strange hexagonal diamonds found in meteorite from another planet

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Illustration of dinosaurs with meteorite

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A second asteroid may have struck Earth when the dinosaurs died out

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Rocks on Middle Gidley island in Murujuga, Western Australia, that typify the landscape

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Ancient Aboriginal rock art may reveal how Australia's climate changed

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Meteorite from Mars traced to crater where it was ejected by impact

Researchers used a supercomputer to analyse thousands of images of craters on Mars to find one that matched the properties of an unusual rock

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Close-up of black meteorite

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Reclassification of Earth's minerals reveals 4000 more than we thought

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What are the mysterious continent-sized lumps deep inside Earth?

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Tiny magnetic waves have been discovered in Earth’s core

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Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth's mantle

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