Mars, a planet once capable of sustaining liquid water and harboring flowing rivers, today stands as a frozen desert. For ...

viii, 296 pages : 26 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index Introduction : time for a new theory -- Revolution in the earth sciences -- The earth's solid surface -- ...

A plan to sell public lands was removed, but a federal budget bill still contains steep cuts to agencies and programs that ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Tucked away in Huntingdon County, Trough Creek State Park showcases rock formations so uniquely spectacular that geologists get misty-eyed just thinking about them, yet somehow this 541-acre ...

The ground continued to roil with 27 aftershocks that eventually gave way to the intense, shallow 7.5-magnitude temblor centered about 6 miles deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

He added that this chain of events is part of a regular geological cycle. Supporting this, Dr Naresh Rana, Professor of Geology at the University of Delhi, said, “There are no anthropogenic causes ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field seems to rise and fall hand-in-hand with the abundance of oxygen in its atmosphere, a study of geological records spanning the last half billion years has ...