Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

By 3.6 billion years ago, Mars should have become too cold for liquid water, but something kept the rivers flowing.

Overall, the entire cycle is known as the El Niño-Southern ... there were no other studies systematically investigating the geological history of ENSO, due to the lack of geological evidence ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Most of my work has focused on the last full glacial-interglacial cycle, spanning roughly the past 150,000 years. Major variations in ocean circulation, from the surface to abyssal depths, have ...

Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geology, Emily Stewart, has conducted new research that questions the ...

The North China Craton (NCC) is a very old and stable geological structure, experiencing deformations since the Mesozoic era.

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Efforts to install additional seismometers around Glacier Peak have been delayed due to ground conditions and logistical ...

A group met at the University of Alaska Fairbanks last week to brainstorm a possible new economy for Alaska and clean energy source for the world — geologic hydrogen. We bump into hydrogen every ...