July 16, 1945, when the first atomic #bomb codename #Trinity exploded 80 years ago, it created a new kind of minerals never seen before on Earth 💥💎☢️.

July 16, 2016, died on this day aged 99 years, Russian landscaper photographer Vadim Gippenreiter. Photos by him showing the 1975-1976 Tolbachik volcano eruption 🌋.

Human activity has moved so much water.that Earth’s tilt is changing 🌍💦.

In March 2025, researchers announced the discovery of Earth’s oldest impact crater with over 3.5 billion years. But a new study challenges the initial findings by reassessing the age of the impact ☄️.

July 15, 1888, Bandaisan (Mount Bandai) volcano in Japan erupts destroying villages, fields & crops.

July 14, 1897, the Seattle Post newspaper opens with just one big headline: - GOLD! - discovered in Alaska, the news will trigger the last great gold-rush in Klondike💰

July 14, 1862, birthday of pioneering #geologist & petrologist Florence Bascom, 2nd woman to earn a Ph.D. in #geology in the #US & 1st woman to be hired by the #USGS ⚒️ She worked on Piedmont tectonics & sedimentation ⛰️.

July 13, 1923, the expedition of American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first #dinosaurs nest in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia 🦖🥚 .

July 13, 1772, German naturalist Georg Forster departs on board the "Resolution" from Plymouth to the Pacific. His observations on atolls & volcanic islands made there will influence generations of later naturalists, including Darwin & Humboldt 🏝️.

The "Monkey Trial" became a spectacle - including a chimp in business dress as testimony before the court - and was extensively covered by the news. The trial did little to settle any scientific or theological questions.

Residents also hoped that a trial of this type would bring much needed publicity to the tiny town of Dayton - and indeed it did.

Scopes had agreed to act as defendant in a case organized by the American Civil Liberties Union intended to test Tennessee's new law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in its public schools.

July 10, 1925, the trial against geologist & high school science teacher John T. Scopes, arrested for teaching human evolution in one of Tennessee's public schools, begins 🐵🙈🙉

July 9, 2015, died #OTD American biologist David Raup. He made pioneering contributions to the field of paleontology with his statistical studies on past extinction events .

Photo of Lake Natron in Tanzania, where the toxic water prevents any other life-form except cynobacteria to thrive.

July 9, 2018, according to a study of chemical remains found in 1,1 billion-year-old rocks from the Taoudeni basin, Mauritania, a pink pigment produced by cyanobacteria is the world's oldest biological color 🎨

Located at over 2.000 m.a.s.l. they were the largest mining operations at such high elevations in Europe. Today they are an open-air museum that can be visited during the summer when the snow melts.

These mines were famous for producing valuable silver-, lead-, copper-, and zinc-ores - concentrated in brownish bands inter-bedded in the grey metamorphic mica-schist - in medieval times.

On July 8, 1985, after 800 years of continuous activity, the mines of the Schneeberg (the "Snowy Mountain") n the Tyrolean Alps were officially closed.