Note: This post is part of the geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge #13: Geology in Spaaaace!, hosted by goodSchist this month. Actually, I guess this is more geology *from *space.

The theme for this month's geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge #9, is to discuss a significant geologic event. What event (or period, or feature) of Earth history has had an effect on ...

One can explain the growth of shells using two principles: equiangular spiral and accretionary growth. The equiangular spiral is a growth where the spiral grows toward the center of the spiral at ...

As is the case with the Kilauea volcano, new formations and objects appear due to lava cooling, hence the appearance of the accretionary lava ball. Accretionary lava ball from the Kilauea volcano ...

The findings are published in the journal Science Advances. "Accretionary organisms like oysters act as spatiotemporal bridges between Earth's spheres, meticulously recording the interaction ...