This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

Anthony Dale grew up with a fascination of the gold mines around his home in the Victorian town of Warrandyte. Attracted to the history, science, technology, and the "treasure hunt", he was drawn to ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks. In the middle of the City ...

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Beneath the North Sea, scientists have uncovered colossal sand formations, dubbed “sinkites,” that have mysteriously sunk into lighter sediments, flipping the usual geological order. Formed millions ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, where shallow rivers wind ...

When devastating wildfires swept through Southern California earlier this year, Los Angeles officials needed fast, accurate information: Where were the fires spreading? How severe was the burn damage?

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around—explained ...

Fayetteville, Arkansas — Behind every great teacher there is a great mentor who long ago kindled a passion for education. For science teacher Clay Morton, that guiding light was Dr. Walt Manger.

Boulder, Colo., USA: Marine and coastal geoscience play a critical role in understanding ancient and modern geological history, offshore and coastal hazards, and climate change. Deep-water ...

Covering about two-thirds of the Earth's surface, the marine realm remains one of the last frontiers of human exploration. Marine geology focuses on understanding the structure, history, and ...

Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The Earth still being the Earth, there’s a certain amount of familiar ground, so to speak, in Bjornerud’s newest book, “Turning to Stone” ...