Is Planet Earth Under New Management? : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

A hundred million years from now, when we're all dead and gone, a team of geologists will be digging in a field somewhere ...and they will discover, buried in the rocks below, a thin layer of sediment — very thin, about the width of a cigarette paper, says British stratigrapher Jan Zalasiewicz. That skinny strip, when … Continue reading Is Planet Earth Under New Management? : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

Earth life may have started a billion years earlier | Machines Like Us

Provocative new research published this month in the journal Geology suggests that oceanic plate subduction was operating from the earliest times in Earth’s history, meaning conditions for the formation of life may have existed up to a billion years earlier than generally thought. via Earth life may have started a billion years earlier | Machines … Continue reading Earth life may have started a billion years earlier | Machines Like Us