Earth science

Articles about geology, climate, oceans and the planet.

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Glacial lake

Lakes formed by glaciers (glacial lakes)

Glaciation

Glaciation: formation, types, effects, and climate role

Glacier

Glaciology

Global cooling

Global cooling (climate hypothesis and context)

Global warming

Global warming

Global warming: causes, effects, history and responses

Global warming is the long-term rise in Earth’s average temperature driven mainly by human activities. This article explains causes, mechanisms, impacts, and approaches to mitigati

Gneiss

Gondwana

Gondwana: the southern supercontinent and its legacy

Grain size

Granite

Gravel

Gravel: composition, classifications, uses and formation

Great Oxygenation Event

Green River Formation

Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse gas

Greenstone belt

Greenstone belt (ancient metamorphosed volcanic rock formations)

Greywacke

Grímsvötn

Gritstone

Gritstone: coarse siliceous sandstone, uses and geology

Ground

Ground (Earth surface and electrical reference)

Groundwater

GSSP

Guyot

Guyot (tablemount): flat‑topped underwater seamount

Hadean

Hadean eon — Earth's earliest geologic eon (about 4.6 to 4.0 billion years ago)

Hailstone

Halite

Halite (rock salt): properties, formation, uses, and distinctions

Haloarchaea

Haloarchaea: salt-loving archaea of hypersaline environments

Hancock Seamount

Hateg Island

Hațeg Island — Late Cretaceous insular ecosystem of Transylvania

Head (hydraulic)

Hydraulic head (hydrology and fluid mechanics)

Hebridean Terrane

Hebridean Terrane: geology, structure, and regional significance

HED meteorite

HED meteorite (Howardite–Eucrite–Diogenite group)

Hell Creek Formation

Hell Creek Formation

Hell Creek Formation: geology, fossils, and the end‑Cretaceous record

A comprehensive overview of the Hell Creek Formation: its geology, fossil assemblages, K–Pg boundary record, geographic extent, research history and scientific importance.

Hematite

Hematite (Fe2O3): iron oxide mineral and principal iron ore

Hesperornithoides

Hesperornithoides — a small Jurassic troodontid from North America

Highland Boundary Fault

History of the Earth

History of the Earth: formation, major events, and long-term evolution

History of the geologic time scale

Holocene

Hornblende

Hornblende: a common amphibole-group rock-forming mineral name

Hotspot (geology)

Huayangosaurus

Huayangosaurus — an early stegosaur from Middle Jurassic China

Humboldt Current

Humboldt Current

Humid continental climate

Humus

Huronian glaciation

Hurricane Andres (2009)

Hurricane Belle