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Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence.

The Anthropocene Working Group will announce the location of ground-zero for the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch borne of humanity's outsized impact on the planet. In essence, the Anthropocene Working Group was mandated by the high priests of Earth's geological timeline to answer three questions.

PARIS: Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence.

Researchers have discovered a giant amount of granite under the Moon's surface, and it could mean so much for our future.

In 1980, when scientists were just beginning to understand what causes volcanoes and earthquakes, a cohort of Cornell geologists began meeting weekly to discuss the new frontier of plate tectonics.The meetings continued for the next 40 years, spawnin